Stanley Cup 1974

[@marblox9300]

This is when I was big time into hockey. The only thing that seemed important in life was hockey. On the NW side of Chicago. The best memories I have were playing goal on the ice. Street Hockey too.

[@marblox9300]

For some reason this footage really captures the hustle and fast action of the era unlike most old footages that seem to show 1970s hockey as slow.

[@joejones8810]

I remember watching Hockey Night in Canada on CBC as a toddler with my dad when it was on black and white television. With knobs. It was my job during intermissions to get up and change the channel and get him a beer from the fridge. Saturday night hockey was our thing. We were a team. I remember Jacques Plant introducing the first goalie mask. Players played without helmets and smoked cigarettes on the bench back then. I love hockey. Thanks dad.

[@billymurph8125]

I WAS 15 YEARS OLD FIRST TIME I SAW MY FATHER CRY (HAPPY TEARS) HE CRACKED A BEER AND WE SHARED IT. STILL THE BEST TASTING BEER I EVER DRANK. RIP DAD I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT GREAT DAY......

[@theGENIUSofART-understood]

super story❤

[@kentonpye-px6fl]

I was 12

[@surfshack2]

This is fantastic. Never saw this before. My dad had Flyers season tickets and was there the day they won the Cup. It was a Sunday afternoon i believe on NBC Sports. For everyone in Philadelphia and the surrounding area I will tell you that winning this cup was an unbelievable moment. It was really a special moment. What a time, such precious memories.

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

mothers day 1974

[@oliverwashburn2860]

Still get goosebumps watching it! Thanks, I needed that.

[@apocyldoomer]

I’ll never forget that day when the Flyers won the Stanley Cup, I was 10 years old, in NE Philly, everyone was crazy happy on Frankford ave and Cottman, cars driving by, slapping my hand , then the horse Cops came , rushing the fans that were out of control, climbing poles, ETC, what a great day, streakers also haha

[@marblox9300]

Horse Cops.??? LOL.

[@lmtada]

I had Boston Greg Shepherd as a Coach in Canada. He was great.

[@searchforthestrangler5034]

Remember the Atlanta Flames? Tom Lysiak? What a dynasty the Bruins almost were. Stanley Cup Champions in 1970, 1972. But those failures in '71 and '74 with all that talent are a painful reminder in New England of what could have been in the early 1970s.

[@marblox9300]

Atlanta Flames - I always had a crush on those White Jerseys and Logo. From Chicago.!!!

[@searchforthestrangler5034]

@@marblox9300 The Flames jersey design, logo and colors are classic.

[@marblox9300]

@@searchforthestrangler5034 And good looking.

[@joeyg3947]

Fred Shero's game plan was to have Orr handle the puck as much as possible and maul him to no end. It worked to perfection as Orr had nothing left in the tank, as great as he was. I attended the first two games at the Spectrum in the finals. The Bruins weren't even competitive. The Flyers won those games with relative ease, other than game six. Flyers relied on positioning and great goaltending...

[@searchforthestrangler5034]

They were certainly competitive, Orr very much included, to blast the Flyers in game five at Boston.

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

screw bobby orr...

[@stinkfinger630]

@@graciemaemarie11jones16 what’s wrong with number 4?!

[@graciemaemarie11jones16]

orr wasnt a factor in this series tbh...i expected a legend. didnt happen. thats why number 9, 99, and 66 were better.....

[@robfloyd7389]

@@graciemaemarie11jones16 Flyers were the better team, and the astronomically better coached team. I won't bother to cite all the playoff series in which 9, 99 & 66 were nonfactors.

[@mickmallot]

cant believe they took Kates statue down

[@theoldar]

Goaltending was sooooo much more entertaining in the 70's.

[@onenessdivinescripture]

Yes! So acrobatic!

[@marblox9300]

Yea, I was an old school goalie back in the day. Today's goalies are all taught to play the position the same way. While they are probably more skilled at blocking the net there is something missing from the old goalies and their unique masks.

[@Rockhound6165]

Boy what memories. My 9 year old self flipped out when we won the Cup. Parent was so unstoppable in game 6 that Phil Esposito said they could have played until the 4th of July and still not scored on Bernie. And great to hear the late, great Gene Hart's memorable call then hearing Lou Nolan, who is still the Flyers PA announcer, announcing Bernie's Conn Smythe. Flyers would repeat the following year and sadly that's been it.

[@barbaracaroll]

Bernie Bernie Bernie also loved Rick MacLeish with the game winning deflection

[@elvicare35]

My favourite all time goalie, Doug Favell, gave the Maple Leafs EVERY chance in the world to beat Boston in the opening round, standing on his head but the Leafs couldn't score enough to take advantage of it...win OR lose, he was worth the price of admission with his ultra competiveness AND cool style, he could drop to his knees to stop a simple dump in and make it look exciting, no intimidation or fear at all!!!!!!!

[@Jiltedin2007]

If Doug Favell was that good in front of the Toronto Net, explain to me how did the Bruins sweep out those Maple Leafs in the First Round?

[@robfloyd7389]

@@Jiltedin2007 They were the better team in four closely contested games, like two years before against Parent.

[@robfloyd7389]

Liked those Maple Leaf uniforms too

[@Jiltedin2007]

@@robfloyd7389 What happened to Doug Favell after the season? I remembered the following year, the Toronto Maple Leafs had another Excellent Goaltender in Gordon McRae who was literally standing on his head when his lowest seeded Toronto team knocked out the Los Angeles Kings who had a season high 105 points that year.

[@theGENIUSofART-understood]

welcome to the Leafs 😂

[@irishbob1953]

ive said it before, ill say it again. when hockey was hockey

[@chrisruth7057]

Absolutely 100% Right👍

[@surfshack2]

Yep. Such precious memories.

[@robertwesley4416]

That's right say it bobby. Today we say when hockey IS pooh

[@paulwomack3845]

Thus began the legend of the Philadelphia Flyers, recognized by the NHL as an "Original Seven" franchise that has had more history (good and bad) than all the other '67 expansion teams and the Toronto Laughs combined!

[@searchforthestrangler5034]

That's a great point. As an older hockey fan who can ever forget this great team, good or bad, including the 1976 game against the Red Army team? And even being introduced to Kate Smith. Awful how her statue was removed.

[@marblox9300]

Toronto Laughs.??? Do you mean the Toronto Maple Laughs.??? LOL.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Stanley Cup final for the ages

[@joedermilio9783]

I was 11 years old my first parade of many more to come broad street was fn great thanks to my grand mother who took me and my brother to the parade may she rest in peace forever Joey South Philly 4 life

[@dino.jay2007]

"the orange jerseyed Philadelphia Flyers -- a well disciplined team ..." 😂😂😂😂😂 No one, absolutely no one would ever refer to the original Broad Street Bullies as "disciplined"!!! One of the most penalized teams in the history of the NHL.

[@robertwesley4416]

Barking Dino. You Flinstone bonehead.

[@dino.jay2007]

@@robertwesley4416 .... my statement stands correct. All of your boneheaded insults can never change that. You must not have been alive during that era to see it.

[@michaelb9529]

@@dino.jay2007 they were an extremely disciplined team. they seldom made mistakes by keeping to their game plan. yes they had fights and tons of penalties but those, mostly the fights, were for a reason not just to kick the shit out of someone. The Flyers are one of the few teams that even got penalized for stupid stuff or in the opponents end. Orr got 2 minutes with just over 2 minutes left in the series and they are behind a goal, that is lack of discipline. They did their act on purpose to make the game flow their way.

[@arjunforest3097]

InstaBlaster

[@michaelb9529]

a good example is game 6 finals 74 and the game against the red army where the russians left the ice. An undisciplined team would have turned that into a circus. The Flyers did what they planned and attained the result and won 4-1 against the same team that Montreal tied 3-3 just a few nights later.

[@michaelleroy9281]

This team was showing their muscle the year before in 72 73 when guys like Schultz and Saleski arrived it was no surprise they won the Stanley Cup the next year

[@DaveTheBigTomato]

Thank you BERNIE! Yes, I was at the parade. Along with A LOT of almost everyone in the tristate area.

[@railcar123]

That look Cashman gave Dave Shultz there at 21:03 is priceless.

[@VMAN00ful]

No ads on the boards or ice. Weird. Hockey was really white in those days.

[@brandonmorris92]

The one thing that confuses me about how the 1974 Stanley cup playoff was: Since Philadelphia finshed first in the West, New York, Montreal, and Atlanta were in the same bracket with the Flyers. Although New York, Montreal, and Atlanta are the teams from the Eastern United States. Meanwhile, Boston of course is first place in the East and Toronto is correctly put in this bracket since they're obviously in Eastern Canada. But what's Chicago and Los Angeles, although being in the Western United States, doing in this bracket with Boston and Toronto?

[@robertwhite7071]

Flyers, well disciplined?.

[@elvicare35]

lol

[@dino.jay2007]

Yep ... the Broad Street Bullies were called lots of things, but disciplined was never one of them .... till this film!

[@lastfirst2781]

That’s my grand father doing that camrea

[@jackhegarty1268]

awesome footage

[@FrankG5874]

I was just born when the FLYERS did it. I was born on May 8th, and eleven days later the FLYERS would do it!

[@Jiltedin2007]

Both the Bruins and Flyers were two equally matched teams in the Stanley Cup Finals. The Bruins lost the Finals in Game 2 of the Finals when Bobby Clarke scored that Overtime Goal at Boston Garden for the Flyers, coupled with the Bruins unable to win one game in Philadelphia, sealed their fate in this Finals.

[@apocyldoomer]

Oh yeah, the old Spectrum, many memories in there, demolished in?? I have never stepped foot in the FU Center, and prolly never will, just like the old JFK center, long gone..

[@FrankAuricchio]

The thing is game 2 Flyers dump the puck in, for some reason Orr froze, he could of slapped it out but he back handed the puck to his left and Bruins lost control

[@davidbranin969]

Heartstopping narration. Peter Puck would be better.

[@34Packardphaeton]

1974: the last chance for the Orr - Esposito era.. to demonstrate that they were good. Where was that alleged greatness in 1974? Where was it in 1971, 1969, or 1968? Yes, they did win two Cups, '70 & '72. The Orr - Esposito era lasted ten years: hardly a dynasty, really.

[@russelljdj]

Simple dummy, Orr Knee Injuries. had Cherry Had a healthy Orr in 77-79. But if & Buts were candy and nuts......

[@5inthehole]

34Packardphaeton -The Bruins were the most popular team of that era. The proof being they were the only team to fill the expansion teams building (including Philadelphia) every time they played a game there. Not to mention they had the two greatest players.....

[@herbpetrillo163]

@@russelljdj in 77-78-79..wouldnt have mattered.their was a team called montreal.......

[@russelljdj]

@@herbpetrillo163 True but a healthy Robert Gordon Orr along side Park Would have been the difference. But that's fantasy. That Montreal Team was the Best I've ever seen. I hated them but Loved their greatness. For me, Laflure is way better than Gretzky. As are several other forwards.

[@jobckts682]

1st Miracle on ice.

[@surfshack2]

Yes! Great analogy!

[@michaelleroy9281]

Kate Smith won game 6

[@sixtiesschlitz1638]

When Kate Smith's name was not offensive.

[@brandonmorris92]

Wait, what? 🤨

[@apocyldoomer]

RIP GENE HART!!

[@Jiltedin2007]

And then six years later, the same way they won this Stanley Cup, the Flyers would fall short to The New York Islanders. After losing Game 1 in overtime at Philadelphia, it was their inability to win at Long Island that cost them as they lost the 1980 Stanley Cup Finals to the Islanders in Game 6 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

[@crayray6460]

Cheever’s makes this a dead heat

[@glen6945]

PHIL-TALK TO ME

[@glen6945]

SHOW ME WHERE -PHIL PLAYED -HOCKEY WHEN HE WAS 8 YEARS OLD

[@atesta734]

Game two was the difference we were up 2 0 and blew it..

[@jongrant5475]

believe it or not. parent missed the orr shot with a few seconds left. he was watching the clock.orr made a great try out of nothing.the announcer errored and said it was a save by parent

[@ccjjpp1966]

Never understood the last seconds of the game. Orr shoots it down the ice and it should have been icing at :04. Even the clock stopped momentarily and then started up again.

[@ljlava]

it was icing, should had been faceoff in Bruins zone. They will not of have time anyway to score

[@MrRegularAmerican]

I have always wondered about this too. My friends and I all expected Orr to skate the puck into the Flyer’s zone and take the last shot. We were just hoping that Parent would make the save. Instead Orr just fired the puck down the ice. Was Orr trying to force a face off in the Flyers end? Then why wasn’t icing called?

[@barbaracaroll]

The year of the Flyers

[@JohnMartin-yj3gv]

Game two overtime lose killed Boston's chances to win the cup. I think if they would have gone up two games to none it might have been a different outcome. Game six was played on a Sunday afternoon televised by CBC, Radio Canada and NBC that's why the Bruins had their names on their jersey's.

[@chrisruth7057]

Boston & Philadelphia were evenly matched teams overall but Philadelphia goaltending was better in the 1974 SCF🏆 Bernie was hot in the finals

[@robfloyd7389]

Last time the Bruins seen wearing their by far best, iconic jerseys. The other five Original Six get it; Boston doesn't. (Neither do Patriots - last seen 1983.)

[@alanwood5857]

Better with the sound off.

[@bb-gc2tx]

goaltending sure has come along way since the 1970s

[@5inthehole]

That damn Kate Smith, how was Boston to beat that???

[@williamlacombe8958]

This series was a bag job and Esposito was in on it and so was the referee

Always enjoying bruins losing. Yankees, too!

[@michaelleroy9281]

Bruins should have won 5 Stanley Cups in a row

[@Lava1964]

They should have won every Stanley Cup from 1969 through 1974 with the exception of 1973. The 1972-73 Bruins were weakened by poor goaltending and the loss of Gerry Cheevers, Derek Sanderson, and John McKenzie to the WHA. Ed Westfall's departure in the expansion draft is often overlooked too.

[@michaelleroy9281]

@@Lava1964 He went to the Islanders then retired in 1979 right before they started winning Stanley Cups

[@stolis51]

@@Lava1964 The Canadians in 1969 were slight favourites to beat Boston .Sadly the Bruins didn’t know how to hold a lead during that series.I personally thought the Bruins were the better team,but wasn’t meant to be.

[@michaelleroy9281]

@@stolis51 * Canadiens

[@michaelleroy9281]

​@@stolis51Montreal is always a bad match up for Boston

[@glen6945]

FLYERS RULE

[@johnwisniewski2042]

Bernie rules!

[@sundevilification]

cheese steak 4 everyone...on me!

[@glen6945]

not

[@glen6945]

the flyers

[@PAARYNAKAKKU-ic3td]

GOD OLD DAYS

[@surfshack2]

Tastykakes tasted better back then.

[@ragnar4163]

Remember this very well was a Bruin fan hated the singing

[@stolis51]

The Bruins were out coached and out played during most of this series.Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito didn’t have a great series and they admitted this.In goal,Gilles Gilbert was fantastic in the semi finals against Chicago,but played poorly in three of the six games vs the Flyers.

[@Bruins-vq5ey]

Put the best player ever in the box with two minutes left in the game..hmmmm

[@glen6945]

ooooohhhhhhhyes

[@glen6945]

ace

[@17donhol]

Will be winning other Cups very soon as Shittsburgh prepares to go BANKRUPT for a RECORD THIRD TIME..

[@humanbeing2420]

Sounds like Ryan O'Neal....

[@johnlevalley521]

For those old enough to remember, it sounds like the guy who used to voice the Chemical Bank commercials in the late 70s abd early 80s.

[@glen6945]

and great job bye the refs

[@kindsir2734]

I watched it when it was played. Imo, if Orr wasn't penalized at the end it would of had a different result. Flyers were a good club with the best goaltending...many ex bruins

[@Jiltedin2007]

The Bruins did have Bernie Parent, but left him Unprotected in the 1967 Expansion Draft. The Flyers then later traded him to Toronto. But before the 1973-74 Season began, the Flyers got Parent back from the Maple Leafs. The Greatest Trade that was probably made in Flyers History. Imagine if the Maple Leafs were to say no on returning Parent to Philadelphia.

[@donnaharris8097]

I watched it too but I was just seven , and it was my twelve year old Bobby Orr fan brother , who hogged the TV , two years later , our whole world changed - as we moved to England and my brother lost his beloved ice hockey 🏒

[@ghytgb]

Commentator blows

[@jobckts682]

Democrat Flyers threw Kate Smith under bus, because they HATE the song. No bless. No God. No Cup.

[@williamlacombe5818]

I still don t k ow how this team didn't win the cup from 69 to 75 .I. retrospect things I know now that I didn't know then I think the mob was into that team fixing games .that Philly series was a joke .Boston was so much better and it showed in the 1st 2 games.i remember a series against Montreal one game Boston went up 5 to 0 in the 1st it was like they were playing children and old men .then th 2nd period started Montreal toed the game in 10 minutes and went on to win .the goals were r ediculous giveaways after giveaway breakaway after breakaway for Christ sake the Bruins did everything but put the puck in the net for them.people do t understand in those days hockey players were paid like can drivers.

[@ccjjpp1966]

If the Flyers were so outclassed and inferior to the Bruins, then why did the Flyers go on to win the Stanley Cup again the following season in 1975? Then the Flyers for a 3rd consecutive year made the Stanley Cup in 1976. I know that was the start of a Montreal dynasty in 1976, but the Flyers were missing the injured Hall of Fame goalie, Bernie Parent and scorer Rick MacLeish in that finals which could have totally changed the outcome.

[@michaelleroy9281]

They won the Stanley Cup in 1970 and 1972

[@BBQFanNo1]

Glenn parent: hahahahaha. Philadelphia still has been waiting since 1975 to win their next NHL Title you hack. i call that an overrated NHL Team of the 21st century. How long has Boston waited? Since 2011?

[@artbalderdash2551]

OK boys, bottom line time; Boston lost Philly won...and Parent laughed at you for 60 minutes. Grow up; it was 50 years ago...and 50 years ago, you lost.