This is hockey,not what we have today.🙏🏻🙏🏻🇨🇦🇨🇦

@Gordon Sawyer yea, ok, sure

Darren Muller Amen 👍

Remember my Dad used to get so upset at the fans standing and blocking the camera when fights broke out...he he... greatest hockey town...used to fill the form for Montreal junior Canadian games....

@Gordon Sawyer never heard of him, but I'll try to learn a little more. The 78 team was stacked, all the way down to Nova Scotia. Thanks.

I am from Amherst and one million percent think the same thing! The joy of Danny Gallivan!

Word around the league was..Don’t make Big Bird mad. Apparently. But I believe it.

.. ij .8 ir I . 9

Robinson was one of a kind. A super Canadian.

At that time he was a giant in the league at 6"4

dave shultz one punched him to the ice.

Thanks, dude.

reg ister Simpler Times

everyone on ice suffers from brain damage now

reg ister the good old days...

Lol..when men were men and fans were nervous

You forgot to mention shitty camera angles that fans can easily interfere with.

In a way I would like to see that happen again

I agree it's nowhere near as good, but I still love seeing the Canadiens lose. Better than seeing the Yankees lose, even.

Flames and Oilers? Red Wings and Avalanche?

@@rainbow666ify I'm picking MTL Bos because of the long history. There's been so much hatred and bad blood for so long ! I agree with you the Battle of Alberta is another great one. That is just as wild at times. If they had as long a history as my pick, then it would be on a par as mine , if not better. ! As for Detroit Colorado , it's another good one, but it was more in the times of Lemieux, Roy, Forsberg, etc. vs Fedorov, McCarty, Shanahan etc. This would make for a good discussion! I personally think the meanest rivalry was MTL. Que. ! Unfortunately that ended way too early!! Anyways, it's just my opinion. Cheers!

@Stelios Kontos I'm more talking about the 70's to the late 90's. I agree the rivalry isn't as intense anymore , thank you NHL, but I can definitely see that someone who didn't see the 70's or 80's would think that way. I would think that way too if I was your age, but throughout the 70's and 80's they played each other almost every year. There was real bad blood! You should check videos on it . Cheers!

even though he's in the hall of fame, robinson is vastly underrated historically. big. tough. super-smart. long arms. had to be impossible to fight, but knew when to throw his weight around and when not to. top 3-4-d-guy easy in my book.

Is this the one LA Fleur won it in overtime? Felt my heart ripped out.

ha ha ha

oh my, how i miss the both aspects so badly.

Star Wars theme during the fights = classic!

Jeffrey Walker the entire game reminded me of slap shot!! Lmao. That’s when hockey was hockey! Sweet!!

The Forum organist was a woman back then, I believe. I can’t recall her name, but she was followed by another woman who’s still playing at Habs games today.

They called us NAMES!!!!!

Grew up watching games at the Forum. The organist would play the theme to the old "Batman" series just before the start of a fight. At that time, they had a trumpeter by the name of Dutchie about 15 rows up from the Canadiens bench.

Cashcrop54 The Boston Braves also played at The Garden. Terry O’Reilly played for them before coming up to the Bruins Terry lived in my neighborhood in an apartment with Fred O’Donnell in Revere. Terry would come out and play street hockey and stick ball with us 8 year old kids

Edward Fantasia that’s awesome! You was a lucky kid! Thanks for the info on Terry! He was another great Bruin!!

Classy Habs fan. From Boston.

Respect to Schmautz.

Timothy Flanagan ... I remember the original six! Growing up, it was “Hockey Night in Canada”. I agree the game was so much better then.

Hockey is a beautiful game. It doesn't need goons, like you

It just needed Ned Braden to skate on to the striptease anthem.

... In his day, John D'Amico was mighty good!

@@34Packardphaeton John D'Amico will forever be the greatest Linesman ever. RIP . And thank you.

All of those boys were strong buggers

.. So? ... I was never a Bruins fan... and Don Cherry was not a bad guy ---- he was a lot more successful in Boston than whiney Harry Sinden....

There were no "you people"" in the stands in 78.

@@stepheng3667 i long for those days.... The days of summer and pretzels and beer...

lol

@@GuitarguyRichard56 hehe

He coached the San Jose Sharks for one season. It was a great year for fights, but a bad one for wins.

Im a Boston resident and a bruins fan. Can I ask how a French Canadian who has a team as successful as the NY Yankees doesn't become a Habs fan?

@@williamberry4615 I’m an English Canadian and grew up watching the Habs with my father. I saw Orr and the whole team and decided to support that team. When I moved to Toronto, I did the unthinkable for a Montrealer, I started to support the Leafs.

@@logicalnotes5007 people from toronto know how to rock n roll. Toronto is the coolest city out of all Canadian NHL cities

@@logicalnotes5007 and that's why they have a baseball and basketball team because everybody knows Toronto's the s***

@@williamberry4615 True

That's revisionist history... sport! Boston's Gerry Cheevers could shut-out any opponent on any given day. And it's not like the Bruins didn't win their share of games against those Habitants - because they did and you know it!

That was Milbury's slash. He was a crap defenceman. A worse coach. Even worse as a GM. I could never understand how long he stayed in the league as a coach and a GM. O'Reilly was a far better coach and if I remember so was Wayne Cashman.

Lol

@Craig O I would say that Gary Howatt or Mel Bridgman were next on this list. What I meant was if there was a bench clearing brawl and the linesman were tied up in another fight, if you got paired up with Jonathan he would basically try to kill you without any instigation. So you had better be able to handle yourself because you were on your own. Same with Howatt but Jonathan was a better fighter. Wensink was a good fighter but I got the impression that once he beat you up that he would let up.

I think I'd fight Jonathan before I'd fight O'Reilly. O'Reilly was more savage and his left was deadly , even though Jonathan was the better fighter. If that makes sense. Cheers.

@@capncanuck2064 I don't disagree with you if it was an isolated fight with linesman ready to break it up once I was losing the fight (the moment O'Reilly dropped his gloves!). What I originally meant was I don't think the guys I mentioned would let up on you once you were down during a brawl where there were no linesman free to break up your particular fracas. I base this mostly on Jonathan carving up Dave Lewis (nope, it was Bob Lorimer) during a brawl with the Islanders and hitting Pierre Bouchard when he was down and out, Howatt going ape shit during a Bruin-Islander brawl, and Bridgman cutting up Mark Heaslip after Heaslip let him up twice during a brawl with the Rangers. Hey, I could be completely wrong about O'Reilly and Wensink letting up once they clobbered you. Luckily there is not much chance I will find out one way or another! Stay healthy!

@@miked6335 I hear you. The only thing I'm 100% certain about is I'd get killed by any of these guys , and the second I'd drop the gloves with any of these guys my next memory would be someone standing over me calling my name. Lol! O'Reilly is my all time favorite player and I think he would stop pounding on me as soon as I hit the ice. One thing about most of these guys is that they respect the code. Still it's a fun conversation to have. Stay Safe and Cheers !

LOL its like tangling with a Honey Badger!!

Oh yeah. Is was war back then, no prisoners taken.

Hey its bruins canadiens nuff said

XD I wish Lupien had been out there with Milbury instead of Robinson.

I would have to agree with you.

Les CHampions contre les goofs.

Every body in BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS'S and new England SUCK

Google his ass. He was pretty damn good.

Larry Robinson was punishing.

Right? Really annoying.

Kristine Kristine and Peter exactly. The only real fight I saw after 10 minutes watching and this dickhead had to put his fat melon in the way.

Karl Q Kent it’s the stupid camera placement. If you’ve ever attended a game like this you should know that the whole crowd is standing 75% of the time and no one has a clue where the cameras are. Certainly no one is thinking about the KZfaq keyboard jockey not being able to see the action 40 years into the future.

And the Savardian Spinarama!

.... and plenty of those times.. were shots by Bobby HULL.

Channel 22, they showed all the Boston teams. The Bruins , Celtics, and RedSox. Saturday and Sunday afternoon Hockey at the Gahden! Man, those were the days!

Me too Garth !

90s not as much

He never won shit

I think it hurt the game by not seeing the full character of the player. Imagine a "Rocket" Richard or Mr. Hockey skating down the ice with a helmet. It took some of the flair away.

Goalies were unique until the 2005s. Now they are clones

@@Weizboy yes so true!!!

Shut up

Spot on. I agree. FWIW these people blaming the fans have clearly never been to a game like this where everyone is standing for most of the game.

Well at least back then you know which player was bald lol

I've lived my whole life in Montreal and I'm almost 60. I've watched the Canadiens at the Forum since the late 60's and yes it happened so often a fan would stand up in front of the camera and block the view of a fight or an exciting scoring chance. I remember being so pissed some times. Haha ! Still I saw the best Hockey (Canadiens in the 70's ) , ask your Dad. The Forum was still the greatest though.

Kevin Collins was like a bouncer as well.

Nobody squatted like John D'Amico!!!

Mind you, Don Cherry is an idiot and a goon. He knew his team couldn't win so he sent the bar fight out.

... and Orr didn't score a single goal in the 5th, 6th, or 7th games in the '71 playoff series..... Orr's Bruins NEVER beat Montreal in the playoffs.

O'Reilly was a POS. Yeah, Habs fan here, old enough to have seen those moments.

Indeed.

He could back it up tjough.

And Montreal was considered a "finesse" team lol !!!

The skating was terrible, the play was terrible and the goaltending was absolutely atrocious. If you could fight, you could play in the NHL, regardless of whether you could skate.

@@thomasmckenzie4584 You're absolutely right, however it's only in hindsight that I see how awful the play is! I guess I didn't have anything to compare it to at the time. An average junior team today would skate circles around these bums!

It just bugs me how people say the players today are soft and can't fight. Maybe, but the players back then could fight and many of them couldn't play hockey for s---. I remember going to Kitchener Ranger games when I was 10 and there would be literally 15 fights. The game of hockey is so fast and skilled these days (partly because the best all over the world come to the NHL) that a goon can't play. And does anyone really think Ovechkin couldn't handle himself against some of these bums? He would destroy them, but he also wouldn't want to spend 12 minutes a game in the box.

Him with o'reilly just dangerous