A die-hard Rangers' fan says, "Thanks for the upload"! I loved those 70s teams. My how my heart broke when Park and Ratelle went to Beantown.

@akapper57

3 жыл бұрын

Like Stan "The Maven" said, nobody would have believed in March of '75 that such a trade would be possible next season. Worse, it likely set up the Hodge for Middleton trade. Hodge was a friend of Esposito in Boston, and he was so unhappy about being traded to the Rangers he allegedly demanded that trade. (Although not necessarily for Middleton.)

@desert.mantis

3 жыл бұрын

@@akapper57 Yikes! I forgot that and Middleton had several great seasons with the Bruins while Hodge...not.

@ahwien

2 жыл бұрын

My sentiments exactly, bro

@billybenden4431

2 жыл бұрын

@@akapper57 true

@med1965

8 ай бұрын

@@desert.mantis That was a Terrible Trade by the Rangers!

Middleton gives up the puck...Rangers eventually would give up on Middleton. And it would haunt them

Players didn't wear helmets, no advertisements on the boards or on the ice, no obnoxious loud music during play stoppages and the Garden hadn't been renovated for the 1st time.Jim Gordon with Bill Chadwick!The good old days indeed. Notice how small the numbers on the back of the Ranger jerseys was

Park and Ratelle for Espo and Carol V. All these years later - still baffling.

@joealomar-cu3qb

2 ай бұрын

after the trade neither team won the Cup but both went to the finals so which team won again?

Loved it when the rinks had the 2 logo's (at a normal size proportion) at center ice..now it's like all center ice circle's are "filled to the brim" with the home team crest in what could be called an overkill..even the old Gawden in Boston just had the 1 Bruins logo a tad enlarged..respectable

@dennis3351

6 ай бұрын

I like no ads on the boards. Just the game.

As a Bruins fan…..thank you for posting this! Awesome to see Orr and Park and so many greats.

@davethompson3140

2 жыл бұрын

Great footage isn’t it. The game I want to see is the 1 game Bobby Orr played for Chicago against The Bruins in the old Boston Garden. Boy, ghat must have been a difficult night for him. His left knee was confetti by then and they say he had an unremarkable game. I only have a slight memory of it. It happened his 1st year in Chicago early in the season.

Been a Ranger fan since the 60s. In watching this I never realized all the off sides calls there was.

@akapper57

4 ай бұрын

Yes, I've noticed that too. That, plus the play stoppages due to pucks going over the much lower glass levels back then, are a few of the reasons the game was slower paced.

i remember in the 70's only being able to watch the NYR road games on WOR Channel 9....because all the games fro MSG were blacked out...were the home games on cable back in '75?

@akapper57

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but in 1975, only available on some early cable TV channels in NYC, and just a few in the suburbs.

Growing up my Dad had season tix directly under the TV Booth at MSG that was suspended from the ceiling. Sec 407 Row B Seats 13 & 14 The Best Rangers Teams to Never to win a Stanley Cup I was at gm 6 when Boston won it in NY I CRIED ALL THE WAY HOME TO L.I. FOR 45 MINS

You're getting great footage

Wow amazing footage. The picture is clear and the color is particularly vivid. First game spring of '75 v Bruins is very interesting. Both teams would soon lose in the first round best of three. Orr skating is noticeably slow and labored. No one knew it at the time but his career was almost over- at the age of 27.

@akapper57

3 жыл бұрын

These are nicer as they are direct from MSG's archives. Most of my games were VHS taped games by fans that were re-copied and traded back & forth, hence the loss of quality. I wish that MSG had kept more of their old games. I'm still amazed that they saved NONE of their games from the 1979 playoff run, just some highlights. PS - Some of these I did edit and raised the color saturation a bit.

@DonQwantsyou

2 жыл бұрын

but Orr still won the scoring title that year!

@williegordon6816

2 жыл бұрын

It is super clear for a 47 year old video.

Wow amazing quality.

The game with The Rangers vs Islanders, I’d bet Derek Sanderson was half in the bag for this game. When Sandy came back to Boston after his short trip to the WHA, his drinking had worsened to the point that other players could smell the booze on him. Once a very valuable player for Boston, they tried to fix him up but he refused. Having enough, even Orr couldn’t help the situation (he has always been a very close friend of Sanderson’s), Boston shipped him off to New York for a song. I believe he had 1 respectable year for The Rangers, but his demons did him in shortly afterwards…New York shipped him off to The Blues.

@dzanier

2 жыл бұрын

He had 26 goals and 24 assists. He had a good season. Years later, after he left St. Louis, he was sleeping on park benches in Manhattan.

'my team at 15 years old. Dad's firm's seats behind visitors penalty box. Everything changed when they dumped Park. Unforgivable

I was at the Bruins-Rangers game.

33:41 Ron Greschner almost pulls off Ovechkins famous flat on his back goal. almost...

hated these B's unis without the shoulder gold and white trim

Do you have the game from April 5, 1970 when the Rangers played the Red Wings and they won 9-5? One of the most exciting Ranger games ever where they qualified for the playoffs on the last day of the season and went on to play the Bruins in the first round.

@xltrt

2 жыл бұрын

The game was shown on CBS game of the week on a Sunday afternoon.

@akapper57

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I don't have it. It likely doesn't exist. Nobody had home VCRs then, and I doubt CBS would have saved a copy of it, if it was just a regular season game. (I do have color highlights of four Rangers-Bruins games of that season, plus the playoffs vs the Bruins, on a separate post on my channel.)

@michaelleroy9281

9 ай бұрын

Where they eventually got smoked by the Bruins

@xltrt

9 ай бұрын

@@michaelleroy9281 The Rangers beat the Bruins twice in that playoff series. They were the only team to beat them when the Bruins went on to sweep Chicago and St. Louis both four games to zero. If Brad Park had been fully healthy who knows what might have happened.

@jeffreyamster6020

7 ай бұрын

The Rangers beat out the Canadiens for the last playoff spot in the 69-70 season, even though they tied with points, by goal scored. With those 9 goals, the Rangers had a 4 goal lead going into Montreal’s game at the Blackhawks that Sunday night. Halfway thru the 3d period, the Habs were losing 5-2, so Montreal pulled their goalie with 9:30 to go. The Hawks scored 5 empty net goals and won 10-2. The Rangers won the tie-breaker by scoring 2 more goals than Montreal. It was the first time in 21 years that the Canadiens missed the playoffs.

The first video is actually from March 23, 1975. Not April 6, 1975

Another MAJOR trade mistake The Tangers made is when they tradedRick Middleton to Boston for an aging Ken Hodge. During The Bruins hay days,in the early 70’s, Hodge racked up some impressive numbers. If you look into more carefully, Hodge benefitted imensly playing on the line with Espo and most often Bobby Orr. Hodge scored a lot of easy goal off the incredible play of the other two (plus Cashman). When Hodge got to NY Orr wasn’t there and Espo was aging. He lasted 4-5 years before retiring with like less than 60 goal. Middleton played for 12+ years and only scored +400 goals for Boston.

@med1965

8 ай бұрын

Yes! Middleton could have been the difference in the 1979 Cup Finals against Montreal!

Watching this Greschner was the only player on the Rangers who wasn't slow and soft.

IMHO Jim Gordon does not receive enough credit for the great announcer he is.

9:05 pm game time??!!

@akapper57

Жыл бұрын

Must have been a game after the circus. This often happened on Saturday nights in March & April, in the 1970s and 80s. Hey, it takes a long time to clean up after the elephants!

@chazo22

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing. I remember 7:30 and 8 games but never 9:05 😮

@ronaldgiordano2070

5 ай бұрын

The circus was probably in town.

Love this! But these guys are slow. They would get murdered in today's game

@dp6297

2 жыл бұрын

Not fair. Different time, different game.

@markwillianen6049

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think so. Today's player is thin and lanky. These guys were stocker and 10 times as tough. There is no intimidation in today's politically correct game. The guys today couldn't handle 3 fights before you get kicked out mentally. No doubt they are better athletes but they would be to scared to go near the puck. Like someone commented. Different time.

5:23 DEAD men skating... Are them for real? ... What a joke

The game is slow compared to today's game!!

What an awful brand of hockey. Gross.

@akapper57

2 жыл бұрын

Game was slower back then. No hurry-up faceoffs, more offsides and more pucks over the much lower glass around the rink.