Chicago Blackhawks 4 Toronto Maple Leafs 4 February 11, 1967 Bobby Hull Hattrick

[mmcckkgg]

In those days CBC kept one camera on a close-up of the net and if there was a scoring chance they would cut quick to it but you would miss part of the play. HD TV allows the entire play to be seen without having to do that.

[ur1sab]

Freezing the puck along the boards was an awful rule.

[pasak2054]

The team that led the NHL at the end of the regular season won the Prince of Wales Trophy. A beautiful trophy, but irrelevant in that the real prize everyone wanted was the Stanley Cup. That year the Chicago Black Hawks won the Prince of Wales Trophy, but the Toronto Maples Leafs, in a real surprise upset, won the Stanley Cup.

[sammee6602]

Yes the OT idea,  good. The shoot out idea...BAD. Minor league stuff.

[PianoXfan1]

Strange how they tied it... I never understood the point of calling a game a tie.

Thank Christ for who ever came up with the idea of OT.

[Lava1964]

That was a treat! Nice to hear the voice of P.A. annnouncer Paul Harris (who mostly used the players' surnames instead of their full names at the time).

I learned something: I never knew that Ed Van Impe played for Chicago.

Also nice to see the good old days of tie games instead of those Bettman-created shootout debacles of today. There is nothing wrong with a tie game!

[ldhorricks]

@Lava1964 Paul Morris actually...but yes his voice takes me back to my boyhood days and the excitement and anticipation of saturday nights

[Lava1964]

@ldhorricks Yeah, my mistake. I always get Paul Morris' name wrong.

[ldhorricks]

@Lava1964 I agree re the tie..cant stand the shoot-out and OT should be kept for the playoffs...nothing wrong with a tie on the road.

[ldhorricks]

@Lava1964 Thats a good point about Morris' delivery...he did use just surnames back then...he would of course later change this to use first and last names followed by a repeat announcement using just surnames e.g. "Toronto goal scored by #16 Mike Walton assist to #7 Tim Horton...the time 3:14...Walton from Horton at 3:14".

[samk1101]

At the end of the 1966-67 season the Chicago Black Hawks won the pennant ending up in first place. However they lost in the semi-finals in 6 games to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Toronto then, in a real upset, defeated Montreal in 6 games to win the Stanley Cup.

[ldhorricks]

@samk1101 pennant is for baseball not Hockey

[samk1101]

Chicago had such a strong team, but I find it strange that they won the cup only once.

[novak253]

@samk1101 back in the days of the original 6 there were only four playoff spots, but realistically it was one because the leafs, canadiens, and wings always had three. it left the final spot for only the bruins hawks or rangers and whoever made it was seen as the underdog

[ranndomness7]

This was great. Go hawks!!!

[WoodyAllenNY]

even back then they had road whites!

[ldhorricks]

@WoodyAllenNY Away teams wore whites until the 70/71 season...the main reason the league switched to home whites back then came from the producer of hockey night in Canada that felt that it was more interesting for Canadian hockey fans to see the more colorful dark uniforms of visiting teams during HNIC broadcasts. Since during the reg season either Toronto or Mtl or both almost always played a home Saturday night game and Canada by far had the largest TV audience the league agreed to it.

[purpleraider53]

Great stuff.

[krdort]

Great video! Bobby was gunning that night! I dig that banana-blade Northland stick that he and a lot of the Blackhawks had.

[buddmann]

This was great! Thanks for posting!

[samk1101]

I love the butterfly

[DynamiteDan1]

Very cool video!! Bobby Hull in his prime along with Phil Esposito, awesome stuff!

[oehieze]

wow... eric nesterenko..I had no idea they let RACISTS play on the top line...

[44sox44]

@oehieze Why not? they let ASSHOLES like you write on youtube!

[buddmann]

Incredible slapshot by Bobby. in the pre-face mask days it is amazing he never killed any goalies!

[streetcarjay]

Dave Keon was all that was meant to be a Leaf. Too bad Harold Ballard didn't see it.

[flemingcourt]

@streetcarjay Agree, but add that he was all the meant to be any professional athlete for any team !

[ldhorricks]

I think this is the last season before the long standing traditional HNIC opening theme song became a fixture...i remember this tune very well...as well the CBC color butterfly.

[RichYan33]

No blaring music after a goal. No jumping around and smashing into the glass. They line up and play.

[ldhorricks]

@RichYan33 yeah im with you...i can hardly watch NHL hockey anymore...

[RichYan33]

Isn't this a complete lack of color presentation?

[ldhorricks]

@RichYan33 the live broadcast was in color...its just that back then CBC archived their material in B&W...it wasnt until about 1971 that color VTR archiving came into being

[mookergee]

the good old days,god bless canada, the old hawks and leafs, bruce gamble not wearing a mask,mohns,papin, wharrem, mikita ,hull,maki.

[DaBearFan715]

I wish they would anonce the goal before the faceoff so you can cheer for your heros and boo the visitors like they did back then.

[hoosierlooker]

No scoring horns, no eardrum busting rock music, no helmets, ahhhh the good old days when life was so much better.

[DaBearFan715]

I love the classic rink. We should bring those back, the faceoff circles and all. Go Blackhawks!  Beat Philly!

[adam0860]

Your videos are awsome! I have never seen so much old hockey before, 5 stars and I subbed.

[ververgaert]

No one shoots like Bobby Hull...knee on knee by Baun there

[Kep0v]

Maple Laughs

[ostapov1]

pretty tough for a goalie in those days, smaller equipment all around, no face masks, I don't imagine any goalie today would do any better in the same circumstances.

[Kep0v]

looks so easy to score in that time where goalies sucked

[ldhorricks]

@Kep0v would like to see you stand in there with bobby hull streaking down the wing...you with no mask...felt and thin leather chest and shoulder pads...catching gloves with a much protection as a first basemans mit...I can only imagine the amount of dung that would be in your sorry pants...you clearly have no appreciation for the game of hockey and the players who made it the great game it is today...you probably still live with your parents.

[Kep0v]

duh, I'm 16.

[ldhorricks]

16 is not too young to have perspective...everything is relative...goalies played within the limits of training,equipment,current philosophy and technique...its all relative...40 years from now someone will be saying the same thing about todays players/goalies, and just like your comment it will be a comment without perspective.  There are plenty of goalies that "suck" in todays game. Gain some perspective...appreciate the game for what it was back then.

[uncleletmeexplainyou]

classic...