The biggest treat was watching Bobby Orr skate across the ice for my Bruins.

oh ya

@@redsox4life -No shit!

Great hockey days.

Yes, and every building looked and sounded different. Just like old-time ballparks.

personally i sit at ecery Nation anthem

@@JamieLennX so what do you stand for? Both metaphorically and figuratively.

Larry Horricks HNIC on Saturdays was a big deal in our home. Dad would make milkshakes and popcorn and we'd sit about 3 feet from the tv watching the game. Great clip..long live KZfaq..until they start charging.

Pat Frencn...It was a beautiful version, wasnt it? The anthem singer the Leafs are using right now is too much of a screetcher for my liking. Why is it that anthem singers add the screetchy flourish at the end where their voices go up so high, it hurts and they change keys in the middle of the song???

Oakland Seals uniforms were blue green and white. Only changes were the C for California to the O for Oakland, marketing department was doing too much dope.

Dee Donner Ramone -When the owner of the Oakland A’s bought the teams he changed the uniform colors. They were the ugliest things with white skates!

Larry Horricks -In the Boston area, what intensified the excitement was when one of the original 6 teams were coming into town. We who lived during this era really got spoiled. It might go down as the golden era in hockey. The modern game is so far from it. I must admit that I too had forgotten about the flags blowing in the wind in Toronto. Seeing it again gave me an enjoyable nerve twitch and a smile on my kisser. I miss old time hockey, it was great!

In one game he was so frustrated at the Seals' inability to clear the puck and start the offense that he skated out to center ice with it before passing off. Didn't help, of course. (I wasn't at the game but read about it in the SF Chronicle the next morning.)

I just now saw in the complementary post that that happened in the third period of this very game. I had thought it had happened at a game in Oakland.

Go seals

In 1970 I was 11. My cousin and I were on an ice hockey team in Concord, Ca. My Uncle Archie had season tickets. The two best seats in the entire building. 1st row and right next to the visitors penalty box. Back then hockey was the center of my life. The Seals players were my idols. Lots of great memories.

Howie Menard

Was your uncle Gordie Howie?

Bobby Hull was playing during that time

The Leafs were the only East Division team to post a losing record against the first year expansion teams in 67-68. Possibly cost them a playoff berth.

This was 28 years before I was born haha

@Richard Joubert My parents got me in hockey in Oakville in 1965. Played right up till covid. Good memories, good times.

To think scouts compared him with Orr

@@buddha7178 Leaf scouts no doubt. Brad Sellwood over Larry Robinson lol!

Well at this point in their history (third year) they weren't a laughingstock yet, just another expansion team. Finley hadn't taken over the team yet and they made the playoffs in 68-69 and 69-70, the season this video was from. They still fielded a good young team with lots of potential in 71-72 during the Finley era but the following year the World Hockey Association came along and they lost 9 players to the new league. Things quickly went south after that...

If I remember right the kid`s name was Redmond. It was a funny story about how his career got nipped in the bud because somebody got his name mixed up with somebody else`s. Never heard of him after that.

@@johnkennedy3970 Go figure. HNIC had another "prodigy" feature in the late 70s/early 80s about a 7-year-old kid named Mikey Gamble. Kid would score 6, 7 goals a game, every game. Opposing coaches began putting two goalies in net to try to stop him. They showed home video of him getting a pass in the slot and it would be in the top corner of the net almost before the goalie could react. People would come up to the poor kid for autographs and he could barely write his name yet. Never heard anything else from him, either.

@@roaringchicken92 My high school phys ed. teacher talked about this Gamble kid being the next great hockey star. He never panned out. I don't think he was very tall. If memory serves me right, I think I saw him playing senior amateur hockey in the late 1980s.

+Casparus Kruger Also back then there were a lot more slapshots from a good ways out, which today's goalies would have no trouble stopping. There was a lot less hitting too, probably because very few players wore helmets.

I think this is better than the shirt hockey now days.no hitting.zone trap....yawn

I think it was in Vancouver

+leafyutube It hadnt been invented then!!

+leafyutube too bad CBC didn't VTR in Color until the early 70's...all the American networks were recording in color in the 60's.

Um....duh.

Still have my equipment. Arm protection was a half-inch of quilted felt with stiff cardboard over the chest area. Chest protector was half inch felt with plastic caps over the shoulders. Enough to make sure that you would get grapefruit-sized bruises but no bones would get broken. Man up and get some quicker hands, sonny, as my coaches would say.

If you still alive lol check Boston highlights 1969 70 I think or 70 71 you can find a Kings game or two

@@eternal1blue Alive and well. Go Kings. 😭

@@kingz9916 great yea I was looking and found games with the Kings ( purple uni) from the Forum ...finally look for Pete Goodwin/ Boston it's the 1969 70 like 13:00

@@eternal1blue Thanks. I will look for these games.

+Tom Metz I wouldn't be surprised if Harold Ballard or Staf Smythe made him take the mask off for nationally televised games. Wouldn't want Canada to think yer yella. btw is that Foster Hewitt announcing, or Bill?

+RK Larkin That was Bill Hewitt, and the analyst was Bob Goldham.

+Tom Metz a lot of the goalies in that era felt the mask interfered with their ability to follow the puck and would only wear it if they had stitches or a cut on their face. Suitcase Smith at the other end of the ice only wore a mask part time as well. Cheers!

+Tom Metz Also...look how much less body padding the goaltenders were allowed in 1970! Gary Smith (6'4") almost looks like he's got a forward's gear on.

+King Bee I recall all the bruises back in '70 with the inferior equipment not to mention the cuts and bruises to the face with the fiberglass masks. At 60 I still play weekly with much better equipment allowing play without the fear factor. The equipment combined with the new style of play (fingers up glove hand and butterfly) allows goaltending to keep up with the faster play.

yes

For many years the Leafs would not play in Montreal on Saturdays (or vice versa) so they could each have a home game shown on HNIC.

@@Lava1964 But it was REALLY exciting when the DID play!!!!!

not very often actually...leafs and or Habs almost always played at home on Saturdays...and rarely against each other on Saturdays.

The name changed to the California Golden Seals after a couple of years. I think it was an attempt to attract fans from San Francisco. I crossed the Bay to see the Seals play, but not enough joined me.

The weren't the California Golden Seals until October 1970 when Charlie Finley bought the team

That's his son, Bill Hewitt, calling the game.

+Scot Stephenson Yes, the fine art of goaltending has come a log way. And the players nowadays shoot a lot LOT harder too.

+Scot Stephenson Are you trying to set the record for the most idiotic comments in one video?

How are they bad?

+Scot Stephenson It sure has. The average skill level now in 30 teams is WAY higher than was in the late 60's. You watch the big stars like Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull back in those days and those guys would only be among the few that could crack a line-up in todays game. And it was the mediocre skill level of the other players than made these guys shine and look so dominant. But that's the thing so many people complain about hockey now. You watch a game with some of the league's top players and other than making a few plays, they hardly stick out at all.

+Scot Stephenson Are you freaking kidding? You have to be to make a comment like that.

+cmacdhon There are a few things these idiots are forgetting: 1)The effect of the introduction of so many Scandinavian, European and Russian players to the NHL and the adopting of European style of play by North American coaches 2) Rules changes have had an impact on the game that have made it faster (two line offside pass). 3) Go look at ANY sport with a 45 year gap and see the huge differences. I started following hockey in the 1960s and the 60s and 70s will always be the best times for hockey in my view. I still love today's hockey but it doesn't have the same feel as the old days.

Uh, I think you are DELUSIONAL!!!!!!!!