Canada - Sweden starting lineup presentation

[Mercelot]

0:43 in the clip Bjorn johansson, :) I got his matchdress in my closet

[TheNorgate]

It's obvious that Salming would get that ovation in his home rink. What's amazing to me is that Orr got a standing ovation in Toronto, which was the only place that he got booed regularly. 

[hjalle95]

His the older verson of forsberg!

[hospiter]

Börje salming han är fan asss bra men typ kanada o sverige är fan bästa lagen!

[grisflyt]

This is a great moment. But at the time, Salming felt awkward. He was embarrassed. The Maple Leafs were his team and Canada his second home. But right there he was representing Tre Kronor, Team Sweden.

I believe the Canadian players weren’t too happy about it.

[hpfc07]

RESPECT!

[Techfree815]

Orr was at the end, but what a warrior!!!!

[sthlm08sthlm]

Det är inte ofta man behöver sänka ljudet men nu behövdes det!

[65selander]

Har någon egentligen fått denna ovation som bortalag eller hemmalag i nutid?

Kommer aldrig att hända, i nutid är allting så genomtänkt. Då spontant!!!

[Fifa0808]

@65selander Händer ganska ofta, se bara på när Sundin gjorde gjorde sin första match med Vancouver mot Toronto. Även om han hade blivit traded hade lämnat laget för en rival, så fick han en sående ovation. Så ja, det händer ganska frekvent.

[Gustavochaci]

i have this on dvd

[oggwurt]

I'm proud to be swede.

[GoalHornDJ]

why weren't they cheering Bill Barber alot? cuz he was a flyer? cmon he's still canadian

[PontiacGrandPrix63]

I remember this, watching the game as a kid. It was aired in the middle of the night here in Sweden.

The swedish TV-commentators were as surprised as I was when Salming got this standing ovation. I think no one here really understood how popular Salming was in Toronto at the time.

The game, by the way, ended 4-0 to Canada.

[Gfors85]

I have met Salming for real, he was eating outside dinner at my friends neigbours place : ) ofcourse I had to say hi and he was very friendly :D

[mastiffis]

Wow, Orr, Salming... under the same sun :)

[nsakic]

Darly Sitler, Lanny McDonald, and Borje Salming - all playing for leafs at the same time lol.

[Fbkare123]

Wow that is seriously too cool >.<

maybe no the subject but auch if the goiles got a puck in there Halloween masks O.o

[MildlyAnnoyedAHM]

Not all Canadians hate Eurpoeans. Only Don Cherry. Besides, Salming - by this point in his career - was so entrenched in the North American style of play, that he wasn't considered a European import anymore. He was a genuine NHL superstar. Had he played with anyone else but the Leafs, he would have retired with a couple of Stanley Cup rings.

[RadioFreeCanada1]

One of two important reasons why the Leafs haven't won a cup since '67.  Salming and Sundin.

[jinx21fan]

@RadioFreeCanada1

Most idiotic comment I've ever seen on one of these boards.

[RadioFreeCanada1]

@jinx21fan Yeah, right Air Supply boy. 

[jinx21fan]

@RadioFreeCanada1

And being an Air Supply fan exludes me from being a hockey fan how? Suddenly your posts seem to include banjo music .... listen you can hear it .... let me guess, you've asked a dude to squeel like a pig

[RadioFreeCanada1]

@jinx21fan  Yup, I'm all out of love. Bwaaaaahh.

[jinx21fan]

@RadioFreeCanada1

Wow, what a barbed retort. I guess that teaches me. You must be right, Borje Salming is the reason the Leafs haven't won a cup since 1967.

[azynkron]

Chicken Swedes, my arse.. Börje is the toughest shit that has ever been on ice. He has some 1000 stitches just in the face alone.

[Rislundman]

BÖRJE IS A WARRIOR

[RomaVictor73]

Is Borje famous for the younger generation in Canada?

[jinx21fan]

@RomaVictor73

I'm 38 and only remember Borje from a young age ... he retired when I was 20 or 21 ... he will always be my favorite player!!! In Canada hockey is #1 Borje Salming will be a God long after he is gone.

[RadioFreeCanada1]

@jinx21fan LOL! Now I know you fucking delusional or maybe you're just doing come coke like old Bjore was doing. But, either way you're fucking delusional.

To every one else when airsupply21fan writes "In Canada" he means the delusional part of Toronto.

[morgurthion]

Yeah, Canadians don't like the Swedish players, just look att Babcock ^^

[GoalHornDJ]

@morgurthion not all Canadians hate sweeds?

[Sputteeee]

how did the match go?

[MrEdSharp]

@Sputteeee 4-0, in Canadas favour if i remember correctly..

[lazer70]

In the olympics meets the best of the best, thats fact. there u got the chance to proof your country is the shit, NHL is a F legion of the best.,

[Love4SK]

Borje, TO needs u now

[Love4SK]

SALMING, as loved by Canadians as any Canadian player.

[mjonas10]

Wow this was a surprise to me, Canadians are rumoured to hate all European hockey-players for some reason, nice to see Börje get the appreciation he deserves.

[Poontangist]

@mjonas10 Well, its not a rumour that alot of Europeans hate Canada. Fuck I am living in Sweden and all I hear is shit about Canada..... I guess europeans especially swedes are sure fuckin poor losers.

[fredrikhedlund]

@Poontangist Kid dont be fucking stupid and type shit that have no grounds. Im Swedish and Swedes in general have a great respect for Canadian Hockey and players. And the few that have an understanding about Canada as a country like it.

If you change Canada to USA you would been more close to the truth.

[kkurrukk]

@Poontangist I find that hard to believe. I know of no one who gives a flying fuck about Canada either way.

Oh and by the way, I find it a bit funny that you're accusing europeans to be poor losers when you lot cause riots after a bad loss.

[Poontangist]

@kkurrukk well at least most people know where canada is. Sweden?? How many people care? Oh yeah and a couple of punks started a riot. the rest of Vancouver showed up to clean it up for free because they care.....I have lived in sweden 13 years...that wouldn't happen here so get your facts straight you little net pirate.

[GoalHornDJ]

@mjonas10 umm no? Here in Vancouver we got the sweedish twins and we love them.

[niteowl009]

@mjonas10 well considering this game was played in toronto and salming played for toronto, this was expected...in any other canadian city, they wouldnt have cared much for salming..

[lulzwecare]

@mjonas10 not at all! We actually have a deep respect for all European players because 1) It's nice to see the game has made it there and 2) Many of our greatest players in Canadian teams were European, example my favourite player of all time is Mats Sundin ;)

[Poontangist]

@mjonas10 ISn't it Europeans that hate Canadians. I get nothing but flak here in sweden but when I am home they love the swedes and russians!

[ottvalley]

Salming was a classy guy and an outstanding defenceman.Too bad he spent his better years with the dysfunctional Leafs

[jtoshawa]

ottvalley, it's also too bad Salming was a coke head!!! If he had have been clean he would have done so much more!!

[hans4908]

@ottvalley Sundin was a classy guy and an outstanding center. Too bad he spent his better years with the dysfunctional Leafs

[iLuvBarRefaeli]

@ottvalley That coming from what looks like a sens fan, a team that has basically nothing to its name you = fail.

[NiPLucky]

oldschool !

[Losrandiro]

Hats off for Börje Salming, even though I'm Finnish.

Comon, he has no face. :D

[Knasterreal1]

Thats because he has so many scarres. They done everything but try to saw on his face when he played lol.

[Golfman88]

BJ, getting the standing O, what a very classy TO crowd.

[hajfen]

Fy fan va mäktigt!!

[limsniff]

This must have been in 1976

[hillaswe]

Magical.

[monomoen]

Börje är kung

[dfbhcf]

Why wasn't Orr an assistant captain? Let alone captain?

[pmb22gma]

I watched this in the night with my father. Awesome reception! However, in the 70ies Team Canada consisted of a bunch of thugs,(1977 especially). Now some of the players on Team Canada are thugs, unfortunately. Canada Cup (new name now, I know) is a joke - I remember when the Russians had goals disallowed for invented reasons in the 90ies - in the last period. Embarrassing! Made me wanna puke - couldn't watch icehockey for a few years after that. Steve Yzerman was great, though.

[bashibabat]

There's over a dozen players from 76 in the Hall. What are you talking about?? Thugs

[jtoshawa]

Icehockey?? The term is "Hockey". LOL...only outside Canada do people use the term "Icehockey"....LOL....anyway, you are completley incorrect. Canada's best will ALWAYS beat everyone else's best. And only people that know zero about hockey make the statements you make.

[pmb22gma]

It's called icehockey because there is a game called hockey which goes back about 1000 years in time, long before icehockey was ever played. Your arrogant response says everything - no team will win everything. Russia will al-ways have the best players individually, cause they play icehockey, they're not brought up to be thuggish on the ice. Canadians are professionals and competent, though. Canada Cup is however a joke for reasons I've already mentioned!!!

[ArgoUseful]

According to you, our best ALWAYS beat others' best? Why, then, didn't we send our best to the last Olympic games? You are the one that knows zero about hockey - you can't even remember the result of the biggest hockey game of the past 4 years.

[ldhorricks]

You need a reality check!!!!...you clearly know very little about the game. BTW there is no new name for the Canada Cup...it or any other version of it no longer exists...this was a real tournament because it was the only time we could send our best players to compete. It was the The Olympics and World Championships until recently which were the joke...now its a relatively level playing field for all nations in international play.

[pmb22gma]

It's called world cup of hockey now, you ninny. In 2008 all NHL players took part in the world champs held in Canada - and Canada didn't win despite shocking refereeing by Swedes. Beautiful! Kovalchuk! Kovalchuk! Kovalchuk!

[phille22]

this is so beautiful, it makes me wanna cry :,)

[Will87]

did they say that the swedish goalie was hardy aastrom? apparently don cherry still has nightmares about him

[St3amer]

Just look at those jerseys and helmets (well, when it comes to the Canadians, their incredible hairstyles, hehe...).

Things were better back in the days, eh?

[bordeauxjean]

canada was decent but not decent enough for the russians back then. sweden didnt have the depth but now sweden is olympic champions of all time

[nickkipguitar]

but we did have alot of depth becasue the teams we sent to verse them didnt even have nhl players at the world tournamnet

[Matbj05]

That´s kind of natural since we had almost no players in the NHL at all.

We were just not that good back then.

[jtoshawa]

LOL!!! Sweden the Olympic champs of all time??? LOL!!!!

[wrappindude]

The Canadians at that time had way too much firepower for the other teams.The only team who had any chance of beating them were the Russians and they did'nt play well.

[josatinho]

my idols börje salming.Inge hammarström.

[karlkalkon]

För att skryta lite. Min morbror spelade i Brynäs med det hela gänget. Han spelade back i Brynas under hela storhetstiden (Lennart "Huppa" Lindh) Ett sådant elitserielag får vi nog aldrig se igen. Nästan hela landslaget var ju från Brynäs! (Bara så ni vet. Jag är AIK´are och ingen Brynäs fanatiker)

[jtoshawa]

So your idols were a coke head and a wimp?? Hmmmmmm.......

[frow1]

salming and orr, what to say? :)

[xtntx]

Fuk that, the 76' Canada team will never ever be rivaled. It is the best team ever assembled on the face of this earth. Never seen any more talent that this.

[Will87]

'87?

[Maxie1111]

He deserved the ovation for what he had to go through.

[phille22]

bobby orr, what a god

[Retepoj]

Salming you are the best, ever!

[jtoshawa]

LOL!!!!! Wow....you don't know a whole lot about hockey now do you?

[husseochdoggen]

bigblockimpala: Bobby Orr was a hockeyplayer i a team in Boston. He was quiet good altough he never come up to to the same standard as Salming and Samuelsson.

[nickkipguitar]

lol ya he did he was way better

[MercurySilver]

:P I think you mean quite good

[jtoshawa]

LOL LOL LOL!!!!!! You're another one that doesn't have a clue!!!!! Salming and Samuelsson couldn't lace Bobby's skates!!!

[bigblockimpala]

It's not just a Swede, It's Salming, a god.

Bobby Orr? never heard of...

[phille22]

haha

[jtoshawa]

LOL!!! You're joking aren't you? Oh and by the way, Bobby didn't snort the garbage that almost got Salming deported back to Sweden in the 70's!!

[susdlnskafw]

disgraceful. You have bobby orr on the ice and you give a swede a greater ovation? No wonder the city of toronto is a cess-pool.

Absolutely repugnant

[slurren]

You are the scum of the earth

[djob2676]

Don Cherry gave the Toronto fans heck for it too. Sure he played for the Leafs, but so did Sittler and McDonald for Canada. Sounded like Barber got some boos mixed in too. Reminds me of the '96 World Cup when the Vancouver fans booed Theoren Fleury in the intros.

[Skrangelben]

Don Chery is a frakking retarded racist asshole. Who givres the frakk what that frakkhead says?

[kenm20]

You are the retard

[jtoshawa]

What language are you speaking Skrangelben? Go back to school and learn spelling ok? Now as far as Don CHERRY (with 2 R's) goes, he is NOT racist!!! He simply says things that KNOWLEGEABLE hockey people think, but are too afraid to say outloud!!

[Skrangelben]

LoL

You are frakking 52 and still act like a 10 year old. Must be frakking great being you. LoL

Oh and Cherry is just silly. No one with his mind right listen to that moron...

/cheers :)

[jtoshawa]

Again with the frakking?? By the way it is great being me. I understand hockey not like some other people. Again, Cherry says what knowledgeable hocky people think, but are afraid to say.

[Skrangelben]

You think he gave a flying frak? Joe Adama cared about one thing. Understanding why people do what they do. Why we cheat our friends, why we reward our enemies. Why we go to war, sacrificing our lives for lost causes. Why we build machines in the hope of correcting our flaws and our shortcomings. Why we forgive, defying logic and the laws of nature with one stupid little act of compassion. We're flawed. All of us.

[Skrangelben]

[continue]

I wanted to know why, so I did what he did. I spend my life with the fallen. The corrupt. The damaged. Look at you, you were so ready to get on that Raptor with me today.

[ArgoUseful]

@jtoshawa I don't know what you're arguing about, but if you support Cherry then I laugh at you. Maybe back in the day he was knowledgeable - I'm only 18 and don't remember that far back, but only last night he was watching a player in black and thought he was watching the Flames. He is a senile old man, and outrageously biased towards Canadian players, and against Europeans.

[ArgoUseful]

Oh, just noticed you said "Don CHERRY is NOT racist", I proceeded to laugh.

[raptorleaf]

u r a racist man...

[tituspicasso]

I wish an NHL goalie would wear the retro tan leather pads, blocker and glove. I miss them.

[phille22]

SALMING!

[josatinho]

he was popular 1973-1990 in toronto..than he playd 1 season in detroit

[jtoshawa]

"than" he played in Detroit? Do you mean to say "then" he played in Detroit??

[peanutman10]

go canada go yawhoooo!