Look how small the G pads are compared to 2022.

saw the gump at msg in 1971 when he was in goal for minnesota

used real wood sticks

Indeed! Not one cross check that I could see, not to mention the stupid “finishing your check” long after the puck is gone.

@@paddyb456 Today's players can afford to be more reckless because they are all helmeted with face-masks. These guys also had to protect themsleves from spearing which you don't see too much of nowadays either. All these guys could really skate but they had to be careful.

Great history

Actually Berenson was traded to St Louis a short time into the 67-68 season

As I mentioned in response to another of your comments, that 4-goal game was February 24, 1968.

Matt Anderson I surprised that not only Blake’s #6 is not retired. But the Habs let Shea Weber wear it

The seats to the first standing level were red then blue. Then someone from the Canadiens got a can of red paint and painted over the blue to have more expensive seats, I suppose. I can't remember what I paid for standing in the early sixties. Sometimes we got good seats (last row of the blues) for $5.50.

53 !!

Kinescope recording. not video tape. Expo 67 emblem on the center ice line

Try 55 years ago, but who’s counting?

@@pls2028 not me.

Math wasn't your strong subject in grade school. Was it

Or have their own division.

the gumper was one of the last mask-less goalies......I do remember my Dad telling me to watch the puck and put my coat in front of my face if the puck came up into the stands behind the goals. don't care for all the netting they introduced back in the 90s behind the goals. what happened to look after your own safety?

@@rkgrant Lawyers, what else?

And notice the stand-up style of the goalies. No butterfly, not sure who started that style?

@@rkgrant Everyone's looking at their phones

@@willzimjohn I'm a huge Hawks fan, and while Tony O was a pioneer of the butterfly style, Glenn Hall was doing it a number of years before Espo came on the scene.

God, I would give anything to have some of those old games on dvd! I grew up in mass and from the late 70's to the early 90's we used to have Wor-TV. Great station, I used to watch it all the time, and then in the late 1980's Wor stopped broadcasting Ranger and Islander games.

@@hughodonnell7090 Actually in those days I think Bob Wolfe and Win Elliot were alternating doing the games. I met Win Elliot at the new MSG in fall of 1968 when he was doing a game that was broadcast on Delayed tape on ch 9. Tim Ryan and Bill Mazer did the ch 9 games from 70 to 72 . Ryan left to do Peter Puck with Ted Lindsay on NBC and Jim Gordon who had been working with Dan Kelly on CBS came to CH 9 to replace Ryan.

Win Eliot - "don't take the garbage out now!" If a game was at a particularly dramatic moment. (No replays)

@@hughodonnell7090 .. Agreed. .. didn't know HOW he got hurt, but make a great move in adopting a helmet.... kind of like Mikita

Of course Berenson was wearing a helmet as he was among the first players to emerge from the ranks of college hockey.

@@donhuber9131 Red Berensen was soft as tissue paper as well

I nearly collided with Rene at the Forum one evening. I was going up the stairwell and he was coming down. We came chest to chest and nose to nose... Monsieur Lecavalier simply said, with great cheer, "Excusez Moi" and continued on. What a gentleman he was. 8D

I agree. A class act.

Rod Gilbert's 4-goal game against the Habs - in Montreal, no less - was February 24, 1968. Gilbert had 16 shots on net during that game.

One of the first things Francis set about doing was adding size and physicality. He had a line with Orland Kurtenbach between Reg Fleming and Vic Hadfield.

@@reneleclerc6119 He should have kept Bob and Barclay Plager. Bob Plager went to STL for Rod Seiling, whom the Blues drafted in the expansion draft. Barclay was part of the deal that sent Berenson to STL for Ron Stewart midway thru the 67-68 season. The Rangers could have used the Plagers muscle against the big bad Bruins; they certainly helped the Blues be the toughest of the early expansion teams.

I wonder if some historians of the game saw that as the decline in the quality of the game.

@@bareknuckles2u ... of course. All six teams were loaded with the best players. When they expanded to 12 in 1968, they doubled their players ... plenty of awesome players still, but you had teams like St. Louis and Philadelphia that couldn't play the game like the original 6 ... so adopted tactics to compete. E.g.: defensive (St. Louis) ... tough, rough, lunchpail hockey (Flyers). It would take over a decade before an expansion team would play with similar flair on a regular basis (Oilers).

Me too! I was born in 66! But how can you remember that?? Impossible!

If there were a Selke Trophy back then, Provost would have won, oh at least 6-8 times.

One of the most underrated players.

@@vitameat Habs regularly used him to cover Bobby Hull.

@@kenkur27 Hull had a lot of respect for him because he did his job cleanly and without wanting to fight him.

lie

yeah I think the renovations were in 1968...eliminated the columns in the stands by installing those big trusses on the roof which allowed the roof to span from atwater ave. to closse street without being supported by columns in the stands which obscured the view for all fans except the ones in the rinkside seats.

Vachon was with the farm team in Houston in the 66-67 Season. Worsley got hurt late in the season, Vachon got called up, Blake went with Vachon and he got them to the finals.

Berenson wasn't taken in the expansion draft but dealt to St Louis fairly early in their first season

Dave Balon went to North Stars in the exp-draft.

Rangers had high hopes for Berenson, but he was injured soon after and missed the entire rest of the season. He finally reached his potential in St. Louis after expansion.

Mark Rocovich Boom Boom coming out of retirement made the Rangers a good team and they made the playoffs for the first time in five years

Rangers were almost a Canadiens alumni team! Geoffrion, Goyette, Marshall, Hicke, Berenson all ex-Habs.

Mais bien sur

Gallivan pour le play-by-play en anglais...Réné en français...deux légendes.

@@rkgrantBoth men legends. Also anthem singer Roger Doucet

And one of the first occasions when fans could take the Metro to the Forum!

He didn't start until the 1970-71 season.

Loved Roger. Best anthem singer ever.

Oh no, Robbie! I respectfully disagree. The Rangers blue shirts and red pants are iconic. Even on their road whites, the colors and stripes are just fine as-is. No need to change. BTW, I’ve been a STL Blues fan since 1968, so I have no allegiance to the Rangers. I just like their uniform.

Red Berenson

@@donhuber9131 is that right?

@@MarkGard-dx3fd I'm positive. Francis had high hopes for Berenson after acquiring him from Montreal. Shortly after this game he was injured; out or the season. The following season, the year of expansion, the Rangers traded Berenson and Barclay Plager to the Blues for Ron Stewart about a third of the way into the 1967-68 season.

@@donhuber9131 thanks for that. Looking back I'd say that was a bad trade getting Stewart.

@@MarkGard-dx3fd I was a 10 year old kid when hockey came to STL in '67 and became an instant Blues fan. Bowman and Francis had a good relationship and both GMs thought the trade would help both teams. Francis wanted Stewart to check top left wingers on the other strong East teams: Mahavolich, Hull, Lemaire, Henderson, Bucyk etc. To a degree, Francis gave up on Berenson and Plager, but they ended up playing a key role in the Blues early years; maybe saved the franchise. The tragedy in the Stewart story was his involvement in the untimely death of Terry Sawchuck shortly there after. I've also wondered if Francis had not made that trade, the Rangers would have won a Cup in the late '60s. Berenson could have helped the Rangers skate with the Habs and Barclay could have added some muscle against Boston, their two main rivals. Just speculation. BTW, I went to a great Blues/Rangers game in 1968. Rangers won 4-3. I clearly remember goals by Nevin and Hadfield. Glenn Hall had just begun wearing a mask, but Giacomin was still bare-faced.

This is done to deliberately suppress the crowds, which the NHL deemed to be a "problem" with their (our) songs and chants.

So what? Different era with totally different circumstances. One thing we can compare is how watchable the different eras are: I have to say this looks better to my eye, and I grew up with the modern game. Today's NHL is boring to me. Of course, that's just to me, your opinion might differ, which I respect.

@ Randy Grant the speed back then was slower because the shifts were very long (usually two minutes long). Sometimes Phil Esposito’s shifts were five minutes long.