This video is a complete broadcast of the Jan. 16, 1971 National Hockey League game between the Boston Bruins and the Canadiens in Montreal (for score, see summary below).
It originally aired on Hockey Night In Canada on the CBC. The announcers are Danny Gallivan (doing play by play on his 1,000th NHL broadcast!), and Dick Irvin with the color, and there are no commercials!
Minus-25 degrees F and a wind blowing off the St. Lawrence River outside on a Saturday night at the Montreal Forum, a large Boston fan contingent on hand, the eyes of the hockey world on two great teams and a constellation of individual stars ... what could be better, and this game has some tremendous stretches of action.
Bobby Orr and the Big, Bad, Bruins are coming off a Stanley Cup win and are putting up scary offensive numbers with Orr, Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge, Johnny Bucyk, Fred Stanfield, Johnny McKenzie, Derek Sanderson, etc. They're on their way to first place in the East Division.
The Canadiens are absolutely stacked with veterans Jean Beliveau, Yvon Cournoyer, John Ferguson, Jacques Laperriere, Henri Richard, Jacques Lemaire, Terry Harper, J.C. Tremblay, Claude Larose, Leon Rochefort, Peter Mahovlich - and they've just acquired Peter's brother Frank! They also have talented youngsters such as Guy Lapointe, Serge Savard, Marc Tardif, Phil Roberto, and Phil Myre ... holy smokes!
Orr is his usual sublime self, scoring on a shot from the point soon after Myre makes an incredible glove save on an earlier Bobby bullet. Powerful skating, rink-long rushes, penalty kill, power play, checking, blocking shots, breaking up a late two-on-one, expertly using the net to get away from defenders, pin point passes. Greatest hockey player ever; accept no substitutes! God bless whomever saved these games!
Other observations: That Serge Savard could play a little, too, ragging the puck a la Orr on a penalty kill and later making some shorthanded magic ... Stanfield is one of my favorite lesser-heralded Bruins ... Also in that category is Johnny McKenzie. His hockey superpower is disruption, whether it's forechecking, checking, fighting, scoring. Every team needs a player like him ... First NHL goals are always awesome - congrats Phil Roberto ... Also cool: Hearing Henri Richard twice referred to only as "Pocket" ... Myre played well here, and Montreal had Rogie Vachon, but instead of going with either of them in the playoffs they rode with a fella named Ken Dryden. Tryin' to remember how that went for 'em ... Anyway ...
Copyright National Hockey League, Hockey Night In Canada, the CBC, or any other party. I don't claim the rights to, and don't profit from, this video. I just posted it for historical and educational purposes, and for those who will enjoy it as much as I did.
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