Toronto Maple Leafs Vs. St. Louis Blues April 9, 1987

[MrFitzy2009]

The old uniforms, classic, and the teams would rather kill each other than look at each other.

[sikandaraftab]

I actually prefer the ads on the boards, just for adding colour and life.. what I REALLY miss is the old playoff format, where your team could have faced anyone in the first round and it was so much fun imagining the countless scenarios and matchups as the regular season ended.. like Toronto vs San Jose in the Western Conference semis in 1994.. amazing!!!

[matfieldgreen]

I loved watching games at the Checkerdome and then the Arena.  A time and era gone by................

[iamnewfie1]

millen was one of the blues all time great goalies and what a great d-man was ramage...

[goalieguy41]

seriously? Millen wasnt that good....Mike Liut was the Blue's all time great.

[iamnewfie1]

you must be kidding?...millen was and still is one of the better goalies to ever play for the blues...

[goalieguy41]

Good God.....what planet are you from....lol. Millen was a sieve

[iamnewfie1]

thats my opinion,i remember he recorded 3 shutouts in a row one time...

[tjackson76]

Both were great goalies, Millen was definatly not a sieve. were they traded for each other?

[iamnewfie1]

yes Greg mill en and mark Johnson for mike liut and Jorgan pettersson...whalers and blues...

[BCHydro500]

Wtf the ice surface is big

[cutterTML]

Ironically it happened on my 2nd birthday.

[RobDog65]

Ernie Hays at the Arena organ. Unmistakeable.

[snowman5676]

It's a shame all those old arenas like the ones in St.Louis ,Chicago, Toronto, Boston, are gone now, all the new ones look the same, and no history.

[skalberg242]

Gotta love Greg Millen's godawful equipment.

[PaleAlejandro]

Great game for sure. Back before the NHL sold out completely: the boards were blank, the ice was blank, the arena in St. Louis is called "The Arena" ! lol Not the Scottrade-Savvis-Kiel Center!

[MrCool63]

you think the NHL is bad watch a game in Europe and look at all the ads on the ice.

P.s. the ads on the boards aren't that terrible.

[PaleAlejandro]

i gotta see that, link me if you have the time !

[generalbullmoose]

Not to mention the advertising on the uniforms...I've seen this firsthand.

[nuklz]

I miss the blank boards the most...remember the days where T.V. timeouts were like 20 seconds at most? and commercials were cut short if the play started?

[JimmySmers]

It was so pure then, so simple, even now looking back on it I see that there was something beautiful there.

[Tubewings]

@PaleAlejandro Kiel is not actually a company. The original Kiel Auditorium, and the subsequent Kiel Center (before it "sold out") was named after former St. Louis mayor Henry Kiel.

[PaleAlejandro]

@Tubewings yeah I know, good point. He was a great mayor too which makes it more upsetting that his name can easily be replaced by the highest bidder.

[iamnewfie1]

that was a great blues team...

[wwefandudebrett]

duz anyone no tha song they play at tha beginning of the blues games its aerosmith i no but wats tha name of tha song

[PaleAlejandro]

very entertaining game!

[cjwoot]

ah I remember these days...back when hockey was hockey and entertaining

[leafyutube]

Awesome! This is what I like to see on YouTube. 5 Stars

[bjursten]

Tjackson, you´ve posted some great clips, including this one!! If you have any more lengthy clips from NHL games from the 70´s and the 80´s, don´t be shy about posting them here. I would be forever in your debt if you did. Keep up the good work.

[Will87]

They showed game six of this series yesterday on NHL Network. It may have been one of the best games the Leafs played in the 1980's...not that there were many of those.

[alanRjones]

Dougie Gilmore was too concerned aboot fucking the 14 year old baby sitter, otherwise the Blues would have won.

[vidlivs]

Iafrate not a defenceman...lol. He had more skill in his baby finger alone, than Dion Phaneuf and Robin Regehr have in their whole body. Checkout game 1 of Boston v Montreal in the 1994 First round playoffs if you can. Iafrate was already playing on bad knees but dominated the game offensively by leading the attack from the back and defensively, he was knocking any and all Habs anywhere near the slot. He was the obvious first star. It was one of the best single game performances that I've seen.

[Will87]

Poor Borje, he was probably (even at that age) 100x better than any of the other 5 defensemen the Leafs had at the time maybe excluding Iafrate.

[Flamesfan7]

I dunno if you could call Iafrate a defenceman...offensively gifted, yes. Creative, yes. Cannon for a shot, yes. But a defenceman...lol.

[GuyOrrEspo]

Goood ole' Salming.

[Ycjedi]

Man, Rob Rammage was underated...it's a shame what happened with his troubles later on in life.

[ictyme7]

nice and nostalgic

[dude195]

Man they're good this year!

[iamnewfie1]

do not know if the blues can survive in st.louis with 14 thousand and less fans other nights ....

[Markdl509]

Obviously you don't know the Blues attendance figures this season. They have sold out more than half their games and haven't had less than 17k at a game yet this year.

[iamnewfie1]

hopefully it continues....too much history to let it all go...

[bludika]

man look at all the people, that was the good ol days in the old building

[iamnewfie1]

blues would have taken the canadiens that year....

[vidlivs]

So what, the Canadiens were kicked out by Philly that year, they had won the cup the year before in 1986. The Leafs beat the Blues in 6 in 1987. The Blues did reach the Conference Final, beating the Leafs out in 7 games in the 1986 Norris Div Final.

[iamnewfie1]

i meant the year montreal beat calgary...the blues would have beat montreal that year.....

[Will87]

Wow defense was an afterthought back then, huh

[vidlivs]

Teams did not trap that much, the equipment of the players was nowhere near as solid as it became in about 5-10 years after this, so players would even feel there own hits, and goalies wore just enough protection to protect their body and not to cover 90% of the net like they do today.

21 teams meant that teams, all teams had two scoring lines and not just 1 guy on the top line who could score and a bunch of pluggers like they do today.

[JJ18fan]

Thanks for posting ! I remember this game...yuck. Go Blues !

[Chiefn58]

Great memories! I was only 11 at the time, but I still remember Inachak closing his glove over the puck before passing it off to Gill on the Leafs second goal. This series also had some other memorable moments, like Wregget's amazing glove save late in Game 4 to preserve the Leafs win and tie the series, and Damphousse's Game 5 OT winnner on a shoot in from center ice as he was going off on a line change. If anyone has clips from the other games, or even Round 2 against Detroit, please post!

[yotties100]

Awsome more leafs playoffs with Wendel Clark please

[clark85]

wow more plz.