Montreal Canadiens at New York Islanders Game 6 1984

Hockey's greatest play by play man Danny Gallivan called his last game. Mike Bossy scored two typical Mike Bossy goals. Gallivan called the first televised game on CBC back in 1952. This game marked the last time we would hear of "cannonading shots", "eye-high drives" "Savardian spinaramas" and goalies losing the puck in their paraphernalia. Some might steal his phrases but it only sounded right when Danny Gallivan called the play. His style is heard best in the early segment of this clip. Mr. Gallivan humbly did not mention his retirement and there was no fanfare for this his final broadcast.

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[lordraven1980]

And I think they players also lose a bit of the hunger to win. 4 Cups in a row is amazing. It's pretty natural that the level of motivation goes down. I very much doubt we will see any team win 4 stanley cups in a row in the near future. The islanders had a complete package.

[beanxxxx]

@lordraven1980 I would have to agree. It was time for the oilers to take over. The isles were bruised prety bad when they reached the finals in 84. To tell you the truth, i was getting bored by 84. It was like there was no competition for the isles.

[lordraven1980]

@beanxxxx Wayne had a less physical playing style than Bossy ; Bossy would take a lot of punishment infront of the net, he was prepared to walk through fire to score on deflections and rebounds. That is the main reason Wayne was able to play on such a high level for so many years. It didn't really have to do with which conference he played in, he was simply a master at avoiding checks and using the net to protect him. He used is hockey sense to materialize from thin air.

[lordraven1980]

@beanxxxx I'm 99% sure Bossy didn't score ( I have the games on video so i could take a look again) . Bossy got 0 goals and 3 assists in the 5 games i believe.

1984 was simply oilers time to take over, but the islanders were also exhausted by playing so many tough matches between 80-84 (5 straight finals). Look at for example Bryan Trottier, his point totals really started to drop after the 83/84 season. All the tough matches really took its toll on Trottier.

[beanxxxx]

@lordraven1980 i would to, but you have to remember, bossy played twice as much against his own conference and the tight checking and tight defence of the conference took quite a toll on his body, where as gretzky played in a more offensive and less checking conference. I really think if bossy played in gretzky's conference he may have reached 100 goals in a season

[beanxxxx]

@lordraven1980 i tried to look up 1984 NHL hockey finals boxscores, but didn't get anywhere. I tried to see if bossy scored. i can't remember, so i will take your word that he did not. It is amazing that he didn't. i believe if gretzky played in the tough tight checking conference that bossy played in, he wouldn't of played 20 years. Bossy's body was done after 10 years.

[beanxxxx]

@lordraven1980 My first post was about the best goal scorer in the history of hockey, which is Mike Bossy, not point, and about cups, all i am trying to point out is that without those three years of 17 goals y/y the isle would of not won.

[lordraven1980]

@lordraven1980 and i would like to see wayne's regular season stats from the early 80s with a conference vs conference breakdown. I know his averages and numbers were still higher than bossy's (when playing against wales conference). I can't find those numbers now tho. But I will look.

[lordraven1980]

@beanxxxx yes...but then you need to look wayne's first 10 years and mike bossy's 10 years (which is what i did with those numbers). Bossy would NOT have continued to score at the same rate thus his average would have dropped. Wayne's averages were insane his first 10 seasons. Bossy retired at 30, gretzky played like 20 seasons.

[lordraven1980]

@beanxxxx This isn't about who won most cups in a row, if you want to play that game lets look at point totals...bossy isn't close to wayne's monster seasons in points. Here is the thing, wayne had monster seasons such as 92+120=212 in 81/82......87+118=205 (in 74 games) etc.... no one in the league was close to those numbers. When wayne was at his peak he was simply in another dimension.