Wendel Clark Returns to Toronto - 1996

[supersnowyangel]

The lefs now are a bunch of sad sack players

[gameover1979]

when the leafs where fun to watch now they are just a joke

[avalanchesuperstar]

WTF there was hockey on Global? I never even knew they showed sports on Global....

[ROBCRX]

I still get the chills ! 

[potvinscups]

wendel clark and krik muller are bitches. lets go islanders

[natedawg3654]

Back when real fans could still get tickets to a leafs game...

[BarelyLegal23]

@natedawg3654 you are so damn right...its pretty sad actually

[supercooled]

Who's the guy behind the voice of the intro? I can't put a name to it. Also is the announcer Howey Meeker? Can't remember who worked for Global except Joe Bowen and that's about it.

Great return for Clark. Forever a Leafs!

[Lennon4life1968]

@supercooled ..I haven't seen anyone answer you so:

1. Jim Tatti ("Yes Guy!!") does the intro for Global

2. Jiggs McDonald is the play-by-play man - did Islanders play-by-play for years.

3 John Garret doing colour.

And yes....Go Leafs Go!

[supercooled]

@Lennon4life1968 Thanks "guy". I actually found out shortly by Googling his partner in crime, Mark Hebscher whom I've had a personal encounter with. Grade 5 or thereabouts, we were playing road hockey and a car pulls up so we let him by but then we see who the driver was and our collective jaws almost cratered. Apparenlty he lived in the neighbourhood (Withrow Ave. / Logan St.) in the Riverdale area.

Jim's doing real estate now and sadly, Mark has fallen into obscurity doing voice overs.

[Lennon4life1968]

@supercooled ..just want to add one more thing. I think Jimmers doing radio for TSN out of Toronto now.

[andrew9966]

Love the 90's starswipe!

[ThePassionforbikes]

This was true Gritty hockey, this new shit sucks. No fights and sometimes i think I'm watching house league? Where the fuck has the hitting gone to?

[shea091]

Clark, Domi, and Gilmore. Will there ever be a greater Leaf team? Nope!

[cupebull]

@shea091 If losing is what you are after, they were great........ They never won a thing, never even made the finals.........

[LeafsFlamesAndOilers]

@cupebull The dude doesnt even know how to spell Gilmour. He doesnt know shit about hockey!

[cupebull]

@LeafsFlamesAndOilers I kind of figured that too.....

[hospitaler808]

hahaaaa i remember that goal.

[angustus5]

who else got goosebumps

[STNeish]

Felix is thinking, "Man, what a gyp. I get the shutout, and I'm SECOND star?!"

(Kidding)

[PlasmaCutter117]

I was at this game. My first leaf game ever. Fucking awesome, still never forget it

[angustus5]

Epic....nuff said

[feanor]

The Leafs will never see a team as good as this again. Even if they win the stanley cup, nothing compares to this team

[jfleming23]

@feanor the 93 team was better

[feanor]

@jfleming23 yea i was kinda referring to that but posted it on this vid haha

[Vertigo2903]

@jfleming23

the leafs 93 team woulda killed Montreal in the cup. Doug Gilmour was unreal back then and Clark was in his prime. Everything went right for the leafs except that dipshit Kerry Fraser

[jfleming23]

@Vertigo2903 i dunno about that one..i think it was the habs year!...roy was the man, and i dont think they were gonna be denied...but ill say this, i know the leafs woulda put up a better fight than the kings!

[SOLIDSNAKEXXX360]

Sundin, Gilmour, Clark, Schneider, Murphy, Muller, Potvin- too bad they couldnt win

[JimB667]

2:58 brings a tear to my eye DGB.... ah to be young again...

[bsdaemon666]

Apparently Ottawa still has 2 fans left...

[cowscrazy]

you cant make magic like that... its just so an awsome moment.

[MatthewHowardWight]

I love the Wendel videos dude. Wendel kicked ass. Peace

-M H. Wight

[supersnowyangel]

Leafs suck today and long live the waffles

[Guinters]

you dont see crowds reacting to players like this anymore. clark was the heart of the team for a long time. also miss roberts and duggy

[dethmag]

The Leafs should have won a cup in the 90's at some point looking back. This night was awesome, great team. Sundin, Clark and Gilmour were 3 great players to have together on a team. The toughness.. Clark, Domi and Baumgartner. Good times, good games.

[butchor]

Man it was so long ago but i can still remember this game and that goal. I swear Clark always had this uncanny link to the energy of the crowd; like he was hardwired into this city.

[17MJG93]

I can't help but smile when I see this

[Bottomless80Depths]

The good ol' days, Clark, Gilmour, Domi, McCoun and Baumgartner on the same team, only visor spotted at the end was Larry Murphy (expect better from a Scarborough guy tho)!

[17MJG93]

@Bottomless80Depths Everyone always gave Murphy a hard time... I never thought he deserved it.

[TheHockeyCentral]

What a feeling that must be to know that the whole crowd was waiting for you to get on the ice.

[ACParker13]

i bet clark told felix something like "you were the real first star tonight kid"

just seems like something captain clark would do/say

[raptorleaf]

imagine if the leafs traded andreychuk instead of clark for sundin, then there would be clark, gilmour, sundin all on the same team in their primes

[streetcarjay]

Put Wendel Clark in the Hockey Hall of Fame

[LOKISlog7]

GREAT NIGHT for the fans and Clark.....

BUT

WORST Play-by-Play announcer ever!!!!!!

[lchivy]

good ol saskatchewan boy kickin ass

[TheBagger57]

i name my black lab pup after wendel, when score this first goal back as a leafs i yell out wendel score, my dog look at me thinking i was calling him

[SamFisher1717]

domi and clark, 2 tough sob's from the 90s!

[tyurtddr]

wtf is molson ultra?

[kimokanka]

@tyurtddr yeah....I was like huh? I really can't remember it either....too drunk on regular old Canadian !!!!!!!!

[guitarman1628]

wendel clark and dougy gilmour on the same team, pretty good

[shootgoats]

and Sundin too!

[guitarman1628]

@shootgoats haha, yea, sundin too

[nickyshorts]

eh stephan...i hope u choke

[Guinters]

@stephen2767 that may be but the leafs are easily one of the most loved and popular teams in the nhl hands down., so winning isnt everything

[tizlor]

Like St Louis. Boston was 72, Vancouver and LA have never won, Blackhawks since 61'.

your troll post is lacking.

[stephen2767]

@tizlor yea but at least those teams make the playoffs, and vancouver won way back as the vancouver millionaires...but the leafs never make the playoffs and think that a team of tough guys will make them good...and they waste their draft picks on a shitty over rated American fat ass

[tizlor]

sort of a stretch there bud.

[stephen2767]

@tizlor how?

[CalcioStar84]

whatever happened to Potvin?

[gun4hire]

@CalcioStar84

He is serving 25 to life for murdering Hextall.

[mazdaman1982]

yep memories i really miss thows days in Toronto when i lived there when wendel came back then a year or 2 later i moved back to winnipeg :(

[mrrugburn911]

It must be an amazing feeling to be loved like that by Leafs fans. Arguably some of the most critical fans in the league... can't imagine how good he feels to be back there haha.

[DWGarvin]

I was at this game thanks to my friend who got tickets about a week before it was announced that Wendal was traded back. Awesome game!

[Tunnel51]

Nick Beverley was the head coach... no wonder this team bombed in the post season that year.

[Guinters]

god i miss wendle clark he is and was my childhood hero, i always rep the 17

[IronCrescent]

Leafs on Global.. memories!!

[u2suzie]

I was at the Game, before the warm up, nowbody I mean not a person were anyplace but in their seat. It was electric..The Best era for me was the Clark era..

[willmc31]

couldnt agree more

[TORpwnsMTLinNHL]

Cliff Fletcher got Sundin and then got Wendel back. Great job by Fletcher even though everyone hated him for the Sundin Clark trade in 1994.

[Tunnel51]

The first round pick that got Clark back was the pick the Islanders used to pick Roberto Loungo. It was sentimental and fun to see Clark back in Toronto, but a ridiculously stupid trade.

[ACParker13]

doesn't matter, the isles gave up on him, and i'm sure the leafs would have too, the leafs have never had the patience to draft and build a goalie, just got lucky with potvin coming rite in

gave up on rask, who just stole the starting job from last year's vezina winner

gave up on pogge.. probly end up being a decent starter someday, etc etc

[barriejimmy]

fucking amazing, I miss Clark, IM glad i got to see him play for years!!

[corymazz]

couldn't have written a better script.

[Thill029]

best leaf team of all time imo. They should have won the cup!

[asr72]

I'll never forget that time. I was in Cancun with friends the day he got traded back to Toronto. When we boarded the plane to come home, the captain came on the mic, said what he had to say and then at the end he mentioned Clark got traded back to the Leafs! The plane let out a roar!! LOL. Too funny.

[nikantro80]

hahahahahah... great story.

[scottrocksACDC]

lol.. thats so cool :)

[leaffan86]

@asr72 god I hate it when people say "too funny"

[kaiyasdaddy]

My hero I was at that game and fuck was it electrifying. I still get the chills!

[bernalli47]

gilmour, potvin, Clark  wow yhet were good back in the early 90's

[pajinski1]

molson ultra lol

[GSHLproductions]

historic.......

[wardzig1993]

MY GRANDPARENTS WERE AT THIS GAME!

[knicksfan89]

and jiggs is the best announcer in the history of hockey

[vallyboy17]

great game