Growing up in Canada with one game a week on TV during this era, these teams were only captured for us kids by hockey cards and magazines, because we never saw them play. The Seals and Kings had the coolest uniforms. It’s so great to see footage of them playing against each other at the Fabulous Forum.

@scarborosasquatchstation1403

2 ай бұрын

Really we in a major Canadian city we're lucky to have watched multiple games with either Kings / Seals vs Maple Leafs .... low budget special lol

California and Oakland Seals (Late 60's) were always my favorite uniforms of all time as are my Oakland A's still ~ Second favorite were the Minnesota North Stars ~ home whites were beautiful

@Blue_Dun

Жыл бұрын

Las Vegas A's now unfortunately. Sucks doesn't it?

70's hockey, LOVE IT! 12-16 teams was more than enough for me. 30 teams sucks.

My grandfather played in this game. Very cool to be able to see him in action!! Thanks for the video

@stephaneblais9149

2 жыл бұрын

What was his name?

@reallifelebowski4732

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephaneblais9149 everyone always has a grandfather who played in some game *LOL*

@joedimaggio3687

Жыл бұрын

@@stephaneblais9149 wayne gretzky

@stever6885

Жыл бұрын

@@joedimaggio3687 LMAO 😂😂😂😂

@dougsmyth1226

5 ай бұрын

Who was your grandfather?

I named one of my dogs after Rogie. Go Kings! Still watching them over 50 years later. I moved close to the bay area during high school and caught a Kings/ Seals game in Oakland. Years after they folded a friend showed up at another friends house wearing that awesome Seals jersey. I begged him for it. A few months later, after i forgot about it, he handed me a bag and to my surprise it was that jersey. Wish i knew what happened to that thing 😢

I Loved watching this program every Saturday afternoon on NBC in Chicago back in the day. It was the NFL films of the NHL at the time!

@GenLeeConcepts

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing that...I was wondering why a certain (apparently/purposely forgotten Kings' announcer) wasn't doing this summary? Ironically, he came from the Seals to do the Kings 1972/'73 season and was unceremoniously dumped thereafter-when Bob Miller came on. All I can tell you is that Roy Storey was always nice to us kids when we pestered him at the booth. At the old Forum in Inglewood, the broadcaster's booth was center ice, a little over half way up...and you caught walk right up and talk to them...not like today with their exalted towers on a seperate floor way above the ice. By the way, Dan Avey was the color man-one of the best, ever. rl

Given how very few games that they won, it was nice for them to get a win and play the role of spoiler. Thanks for posting the video.

I loved those all gold uniforms of the Kings when I was a kid.

@bearcookie13

2 ай бұрын

They were beautiful! Now we have the ugliest in pro sports..

Dang it Kings! We needed that one!

1973 Seals vs Kings , good seats available, LOL

It's Rogie Vachon vs. Gilles Meloche. It's Butch Goring vs. Joey Johnston (whose 1974 hockey card I could never pull from a pack)! It's NHL hockey in California and lots of gold, green and purple! Thanks for posting this near-50-year-old footage!

@MaidenCanada

2 жыл бұрын

Best hockey era 😊👍

@FischerFan

Жыл бұрын

@@MaidenCanada Well, it IS pre-Bettman!

Yellow pants, white skates, that crazy music... it certainly was the 1970s.

I'd forgotten Reggie Leech played for the Seals before becoming a superstar with the Flyers.

@Rockhound6165

2 жыл бұрын

The only Flyer ever to win the scoring title.

@FischerFan

Жыл бұрын

@@Rockhound6165 ..and one of the very few players to have Ken Dryden's number.

We always called the Kings home uniforms 'pajamas'.

No better color matchup in the 1970's!

Future Flyer and Conn Smythe winner Reggie Leach scores the 2nd goal for the Seals. And note the white skates on the Seals.

Attendance at The Forum was 10,268.

The next season Pulley would coach this squad to a 105 point season.

@michaelleroy9281

3 жыл бұрын

2 years later in ' 74-75

The Golden Seals messed up big time winning this game by shutting down any playoff hockey for the State of California in April /May 1973 ...Great nobody is paying attention on sports television, or paying at the hockey rink box office 💰💰💰💰 attending games till next September 73.... Hockey in the California Sunshine !

Loved NHL Action show.

@roguedolphin

2 жыл бұрын

I Loved it too watched it every Saturday afternoon on NBC in Chicago back in the day. It was the NFL films of the NHL at the time!

Vintage Golden Seals

Gotta love the white skates! Vintage

@Blue_Dun

Жыл бұрын

Thank Charlie Finley for that. He thought it was cool for the "Swingin' A's," why not the Seals too.

@FischerFan

9 ай бұрын

@@Blue_Dun The white skates were another example of how Finlay was a baseball man and not a hockey man.

Always felt sorry for Meloche. Every night facing massive amount of shots and no hope of winning...that's called shell shocked. I'd guess he still has nightmares every night of rubber discs flying at him. He started with Chicago as Tony O's backup, saw him play a few games, pretty decent. Imagine him as the first string on a good team. Like Marcel Dione one of the greatest goal scorers in NHL history. But try to imagine if he played for a great team...Wayne who and he was a great all around player.

Love the uniforms!!

Before the 1972-73 season began, the California Golden Seals lost a lot of players to the WHA, which began operation in 1972-73.

@williegordon7899

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe that's why they were always so horrible.

@williegordon7899

2 жыл бұрын

What's up with the audio?

@williegordon7899

2 жыл бұрын

The Kings need to go back to those uniforms.

@donhuber9131

2 жыл бұрын

Finley!

@williegordon6816

2 жыл бұрын

Check out Butch Goring #19 on the Kings,who some 7 years later would get traded to the Islanders and the rest as they say is history.

Joey Johnson looks like the "I'm gonna straighten you out..." guy from Slap Shot.

WOW!!!!!

0:24 is terrifying

Serge Bernier for Kings.

Is the announcer Tim Ryan?

Ahhh the golden state plying hockey

I think that is my dentist at 1:10!

Looking at the standings for this season, you'd think Clarence Campbell was smoking crack. In the Eastern Division, you have a familiar eastern venue in Vancouver while in the West Division you have western venues like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta. Would have made more sense to have Philly, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta in the East and Vancouver, Detroit, and Toronto in the West.

@Blue_Dun

Жыл бұрын

The NHL shuffled divisions more than Russia had revolutions

@davidlafleche1142

Жыл бұрын

They learned geography from the NFL.

@Rockhound6165

Жыл бұрын

@@davidlafleche1142 remember when the NFC West consisted of the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, New Orleans Saints, St. Louis Rams, and SF 49ers?

Expansion and two leagues made for terrible low level. Go back and watch skaters in 60s Boston or Montreal and compare with skaters in this clip.

Is that Rogue Vachon in goal ...

@dela1956

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Meloche

@MaidenCanada

2 жыл бұрын

If he had a better team in front of him, Meloche would have won the vezina, and more than once im sure 😊👍

@anthonyriche552

2 жыл бұрын

I remember him from his North Star days. I never knew he played for the Seals. He was always one of my favorite goalies.

@MaidenCanada

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyriche552 He was always a favourite of mine as well. He didn't get the credit he deserved unfortunately.

@anthonyriche552

2 жыл бұрын

@@MaidenCanada Agreed!! 100%%%

@MaidenCanada

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyriche552 I think I need a Meloche jersey 🥰👍👍

White skates LMAO

@BillMorganChannel

3 жыл бұрын

They were made of Kangaroo leather (seriously) they gave the Seals a little exrra hop!

@michaelleroy9281

3 жыл бұрын

Charlie Finley

@skifusya2814

2 жыл бұрын

@@BillMorganChannel No, Finley wanted kangaroo leather but it was too soft. They were regular skates, whitewashed (painted) over and over and over. Source = 'Shorthanded - the untold story of the Seals' by Brad Kurtzberg.

@BillMorganChannel

2 жыл бұрын

@@skifusya2814 Wow thank you. I remember watching Hockey Night In Canada, maybe 1973, and the commentator absolutely said they were kangaroo leather and asked if they gave the hapless Seals an extra hop.

@skifusya2814

2 жыл бұрын

@@BillMorganChannel I can believe it. If I remember correctly he wanted to have baseball shoes made for the A's out of the same leather, too.