The North Star State Part 2: Saints, Seals, & Barons

Part 2 of an amateur documentary about the complete history of the Minnesota North Stars.
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[@mikelawlor1533]

You should all be proud of how well this is produced

[@danwhenesota2646]

Thank you. Appreciate that anyone watches them.

[@pjet8042]

Those two wins over Montreal in the 70-71 semifinals were the first time a Western division club got a playoff win over an Eastern club. The North Stars were also the reason why the playoff format was changed from 1 vs 3 and 2 vs 4 to 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3 because Minnesota was suspected of tanking to drop into 4th place where they wouldn't have to face the Black Hawks. They lost their last 4 games, two of them to expansion teams Buffalo and Vancouver and another to the last-place Golden Seals.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Those old newspaper articles were great

[@jefflarsen9743]

This stuff is priceless! Thank you so much!

[@danwhenesota2646]

Thank you for watching.

[@intellivisionmaster7999]

Habs fan here; watched my Habs faithfully from 1974 on… Bobby Smith and Steve Payne saved the Minnesota franchise. The North Stars became an exciting team to follow! They were a great team with great fans. The team left with one of the best players of all time - Mike Modano - It was sad to see them go. This new Forest/Wild team doesn’t have the same feel as the late 70’s/ 80’s North Stars !

[@danwhenesota2646]

Stay tuned. Part 3 about the 80's is releasing in the next day or two here.

[@intellivisionmaster7999]

@@danwhenesota2646 what timing! Amazing! I look forward!

[@bearforce187]

I would like to see the Wild use the Green and Gold uniforms as their regular sets.

[@michaelleroy9281]

​@@bearforce187 For the 2024-25 season it looks like that is not happening

[@pjet8042]

Great presentation. I was a Seals and Rangers fan living on Long Island and I always looked forward to the few times each year where the CBS Game of the Week would feature a Western division expansion club. Minnesota, St Louis, Philly, Pittsburgh and later Buffalo were usually good for one appearance per season.

[@danwhenesota2646]

Thank you!!!

[@thomasgallagher7092]

I’m a Rangers fan but I found this to be meticulously researched and very well put together. We had the Stars farm club in New Haven CT (Nighthawks ) from 72-76 or so. Some of these draft picks mentioned in this played in New Haven. The Nighthawks were an AHL team that was a joint farm club for the Stars and the New York Islanders in the early days.

[@danwhenesota2646]

Thank you for watching. You don't know how much that means to me. Stay tuned for part 3.

[@mgunny05]

THIS is my Minnesota NHL hockey team! I was in my Junior and Senior years of school in Bloomington and was their from the start! Hail Cesare and the Gump!

[@danwhenesota2646]

Thank you for watching it. Hope you enjoyed it!

[@cfapps7865]

As a kid who grew up in Bloomington and worked at the Met as a kid I enjoyed that thoroughly. Thanks.

[@danwhenesota2646]

There are 2 more parts to come. Stay tuned.

[@michaelleroy9281]

1971-72 and 1972-73 were great seasons

[@brucededon2359]

Dan, what a walk down memory lane. I grew up in Duluth and made many trips to the Met as a kid with my dad. Totally looking forward to the next video!

[@danwhenesota2646]

Thank you! Thank you for watching. Means a ton!

[@davidx6912]

I worked in the Stars exec suites that final season. What a gas to be there after listening to Al Shaver's voice going in and out in scratchy radio broadcasts growing up in frosty North Dakota. What a tragedy when they left. But the best part of that experience was getting to play pickup hockey on the arena ice at noontime! Norm Green sux for all time... 🖕

[@curtisdavis2157]

#QuiteADocumentarySeriesYouHaveGoingOn!

[@TonyBoyOhBoy]

Nice job, well done! I was a big Saint's fan back in the day.

[@danwhenesota2646]

Thank you. Im working on a book about the full history of the Fighting Saints. Stay tuned.

[@TonyBoyOhBoy]

@@danwhenesota2646 Very cool, I look forward to reading it! I wrote a book with former Polar/Gopher/Saint Frank Sanders. He had some great stories!

[@TheTempleOfBoom]

Awesome job , enjoyed it .

[@rewing84]

awesome video very informative

[@danwhenesota2646]

Thank you so much for watching it.

[@davidx6912]

My God, where did you find all those old clips and newspaper shots? And what a treat to see all those player photos with the 70s hockey hair and porn-star 'staches! 😅🤣😂 I totally recognize my old HS hockey hairdo in those dudes!

[@danwhenesota2646]

Thank you for watching. Really appreciate it!

[@michaelleroy9281]

They got Gump Worsley toward the end of the 1969-70 season, that helped them just barely get into the playoffs

[@MadMarksCollegeOfMusicalKnowle]

I thoroughly enjoyed this! Just curious though...where did you get the game clips from? You wouldn't happen to have and full games from back then, would you? I'd pay good money for any and all games between the Stars and St. Louis prior to 1977.

[@danwhenesota2646]

thanks for watching. I got the majority of the clips from someone's private collection and do not have permission to share them.

[@TheTempleOfBoom]

Goldy Goldthorpe , AKA Ogie Oglethorpe , from Slapshot , for whom the character is based .

[@streetcarjay]

The Carson Brothers are also known as the hockey's Hanson Brothers of the Charleston Cheifs. The Slap shot movies.

[@danwhenesota2646]

thank you for watching. Ha ha!!!

[@pocobull]

First off, it's the Carlson brothers, not the Carson brothers, and secondly even if that wasn't common knowledge amongst anyone that has watched hockey for more than 5 minutes, he kinda mentioned it in the documentary. But thanks for the heads up.

[@kentkearney6623]

The SLAP SHOT 1:05:36 HANSEN BROTHER'S Jeff Steve Jack Carlson

[@topflightmarketing]

Puck Bunny alert at 34:18

[@michaelleroy9281]

The 2 nd season wasn't as good as the first, they missed the playoffs