I read a book about the 74-75 Capitals, one of many funny stories from that season and book that really sticks out is that after one of their 8 wins the team took the garbage can from the dressing room, brought it out on the ice and skated around with it over their heads like they just won the Stanley Cup, lol...... They knew they were garbage, but at least they were graceful and humorous about it....

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

It was in their hotel after their first road victory over the California Golden Seals, they took a plastic trash put tape on it wrote "Stanley Cup" on it and paraded around the place.

On November 10, 1974 my father took me to my first ever Washington Capitals game vs the Montreal Canadians at the Capital Centre. They loss 11-1 and I was hooked. I have been a lifetime Caps fan. As I watched the Caps finally win the Stanley Cup in 2018 and I watched the city celebrate. I wondered how many other fans could say they been here from the beginning.

@Rockhound6165

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty rare to see that many goals scored in a hockey game, especially in this era where the teams were much slower and bigger.

@quiricomazarin476

2 жыл бұрын

It was the Habs trade with the caps in 81 that finally made that franchise respectable.

@joshdrumheller4920

Жыл бұрын

I've been there since 98. I wasn't born until 89 so I can't exactly say from the beginning lol!!!! I have been there since I was a kid and finally seeing the cup on June 7th, 2018, it was the greatest moment for the Caps ever!!!! It's etched in my mind forever!!!

@TRKEWEENAW

Жыл бұрын

I was happy to see the Caps and Blues finally win the cup, two good long suffering franchises that deserved their time in the glory of a championship.

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

@@quiricomazarin476 The trade for Langway was known as “trade that saved this franchise”.

1974-75 Caps: We're the worst expansion team in history! 1976-77 Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Hold my beer.

Ah i see you haven't heard about the stats and record of my junior team...

@johnk3734

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao I’ve played on my few share of shitty teams.

@TN-wv6ok

4 жыл бұрын

I’m guessing your a Surrey Knights legend?

@bluebear1985

4 жыл бұрын

The junior A league I work in had a team that had a bad record not too long ago. Just look up how the Minnesota Iron Rangers did during the 2018-2019 SIJHL season. I'm not going to say how bad here though. Look it up if you're curious.

@blazin1397

3 жыл бұрын

Cross Crease Hockey he’s lying bro what you expect

@j.d3804

3 жыл бұрын

bluebear1985 56 games played, 3 wins and 478 goals against ....still made the playoffs

While their expansion counterparts, the Kansas City Scouts, had more wins than the Capitals, the Caps' ownership had far more patience and resources to keep the team going, the Scouts did not, made worse by an economic downturn at the time, and so the Scouts left town after only 2 seasons. The Caps wouldn't become competitive until around 1982-83 when they made their first playoff appearance and saved the team from relocation.

@ClassicRocker61

2 жыл бұрын

"THE TRADE" had something to do with that

@bigjohn08865

2 жыл бұрын

The Scouts moved to Colorado in 1976 and to New Jersey in 1982.

@Rockhound6165

2 жыл бұрын

Scouts did have one of the coolest uniforms in NHL history. And you really don't want to compare franchise success.

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

There were groups that were going to purchased the team from Abe Pollin and moved them either to Regina in Canada, or to Tacoma, Washington in the Tacoma Dome, had that happened they probably would eventually moved to Seattle or a possible merger with the Rockies and being part of the New Jersey Devils or Pollin just folding the team. I remember watching George Micheal on Channel 4 and the “Save the Caps” telethon and buying tickets to the game against Minnesota. Abe Pollin got almost everything he wanted, 10 guaranteed sellouts and an amusement tax break from PG County.

In my early childhood beginning at 1980, my proud and beloved Detroit Red Wings suffered that dark wrath for long stretches of being basement dwellers in the standings. Just until the 1986-87 season when they hired Jacques Demers as Detroit's head coach to bail the Red Wings from the basement of the league.

Why does this remind me of me playing squirt hockey and having my team go 3-54-1.

@brooke-3615

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty solid

@Isaac-od4rm

4 жыл бұрын

The only W my peewee team got was against the all girls team lol

@brynncunningham

4 жыл бұрын

Isaac R haha one of our only wins was with 9 players including a goalie

@brynncunningham

4 жыл бұрын

Brooke - watch out Boston

@Redditaurus

4 жыл бұрын

5 yrs ago i played for a recreational team when we went 1-11-0 with our only win being in the shootout. Since i prefer watching to playing this was my only stint in hockey

I saw them play Montreal Canadiens in 1974/75. I did not even know the rules back then. I just knew the game was not made to play in just one teams end of the ice. Got season tickets in 1981. Saw some really great players back in those days. Three rows off the ice $10 tickets just left of the goal.

The 80-81 Winnipeg Jets were brutal. 9-57-14 GF 246 GA 400 At one point they were 2-28-7 Won their first game of that season on Oct 17.The next win didn't come until Dec 23 (31 games later). Three coaches that season.

@DNSKansas

4 жыл бұрын

The 80-81 Jets were basically a second-year team with only a few veterans. Remember, John Ziegler allowed the NHL to plunder the WHA teams' rosters when they came to the NHL. The Oilers just so happened to protect Gretzky and Messier.

@MonTube2006

Жыл бұрын

Philadelphia Quakers ?

0:23 as a flames fan i am liking this image

@floridaman451

4 жыл бұрын

As an islanders fan, I don’t like this image

@ravitex_

4 жыл бұрын

As a Blues fan, I like this image

@sawyer6241

4 жыл бұрын

Why tf is Edmonton in alaska

@Immaplant2

4 жыл бұрын

look at edmonton haha

@dwbsovran

4 жыл бұрын

The Canucks cover a lot of territory! No Toronto Make-Believes. However the North Dakota Jets has a nice ring to it! What's to love about Flamin' Montana? This Brit obviously failed geography. Probably never heard of Canaduh!

As a Sabres fan, I needed to watch this lol

I can't tell if its the food poisoning or looking at those stats from the 74/75 season but it makes my stomach turn as a Caps fan and I didn't live through that era. But I do find it to be poetic how the worst expansion team in NHL history beat the best team in NHL history to win their first Cup. (Even if it did start a civil war in my family xD)

@Redditaurus

4 жыл бұрын

The best expansion* team

@FrostBytePhantom

4 жыл бұрын

@@Redditaurus I kinda thought that was implied

One of my childhood friends was on that team ... Mike Marson from Scarborough Ontario.

@RMTStudios

4 жыл бұрын

I hope he had the opportunity to celebrate with the team when they won the cup. As loathsomely bad as the team was, and as shitty the Cap Centre was as an arena, they were part of the story of this team, which many of us have fallen in love with over the years. with such players as Scott Stevens, Rod Langway, Jim Carrey, Olie the Golie, and the current crop of greatness on the team now.

@dennis9707

4 жыл бұрын

coach Anderson I'm pretty sure a year after 1974 was the car salesman trying to sell me a car. that's how bad it was. this is not a joke.

@waynejohanson1083

4 жыл бұрын

Did he celebrate when the Caps won the cup.

@rockvilleraven

4 жыл бұрын

@@waynejohanson1083 Abe Pollin did favors for Jack Kent Cooke when he bought the Lakers from Bob Short, so Cooke helped return the favor helping getting him the franchise for Washington..

@armorybrunotjr.3204

3 жыл бұрын

Mike Marson reintegrated the NHL when he played in the Washington Capitals maiden season of 1974-75. He scored 16 goals and 28 points that season. He was the second black player to play in the NHL.

Thanks for the video. I was not aware how much they struggled in the first season. I do wonder if they had a lot of fans go to the home games in their first year. I remember the NJ Devils in their early years and how much they struggled (not as bad as say the capitals did) but eventually they were able to start winning and managed to win some Stanley Cups. Glad that the Capitals were finally able to win their first cup.

I lived in Alexandria, VA in the 1970's. I remember when the Caps came to town...they were AWFUL! First game my dad took me to was in March of 1975 - they lost to Toronto 2-4. I think they only won 8 games all season. Favorite players from that era were Ace Bailey and Guy Charron. Cap Centre was an odd looking building. Great memories!

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

And only one road victory against the California Golden Seals.

Imagine putting up 58 points on a team like that

the senators have tried their best alongside the sharks but none have captured the magic(in the case the lack of) of these 74-75 washington caps

As I sat in Legends Restaurant with my 2 sons watching the Caps finally hoisting the Cup for the first time, I cried like a baby. My boys asked what was wrong and all I could think of was all of the terrible years that the Caps struggled .As a boy I listened to every game on WTOP radio. I never gave up because I knew that someday they would prove everyone wrong. I had met many of the early players , and even got to skate with them in an open practice at Tysons Ice rink. I would cut out newspaper clippings of every win and hang them on my bedroom wall. I would wear my authentic Caps jersey to school { which I still have }. I can die now HAPPY !!!!! Lets Go Caps..... forever and always !!!!!

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

Before the Caps came, my Dad used to drive me up to Baltimore to see the AHL Clippers at the Civic Center. So I knew what was going on when they started up.

Ya subscribe the odd man is pretty dope..his vids r very educational even for the avid hockey fan. Thanks Odd man!

I sometimes heard their games on the radio in that era, far away in eastern Canada. Being a strong Montreal Expos fan I warmed to the Caps as an underdog. I was pleased when they eventually became a fine hockey team.

I am 1 of 88 people that gave the Capitals their team name through a contest to name the new hockey team. I still have the autographed Victoriaville stick I received at the Capital Center buffet dinner. Signed by Pollin, GM Schmit plus 1st pick Greg Joly. I had 2 season tickets the 1st season. A very tough first season.

@jakeoleary2011

Жыл бұрын

That is an amazing piece of history, I sure would love to see a picture sometime if you have it. Living history!

The worst team in NHL is the Philadelphia Quakers

@DevilFish69

4 жыл бұрын

Their logo was a duck hence the name Quackers.😉

@greatestgoalie25

4 жыл бұрын

Quakers*

@lozerboozer

4 жыл бұрын

Quakers. Not Quackers. Lol

@bluebear1985

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he's going by the worst team under a minimum number of games played.

Those Northland sticks (2:38)where similar to finding a fallen branch in the woods, slapping some tape on the end and boomm. Your stick!

quick correction u said the caps won their first cup after 34 years its actually 44 years

The NHL set up the Capitals for failure by limiting where they drafted from in the early years and also severely limiting the talent pool they were able to choose from on the existing clubs. Fast forward to Vegas where they gifted them a Stanley Cup finalist out of the gate. Expansion is always tough but back then the owners simply wanted cash from a new team and really cared little about a new teams success, so short sighted hats off to the teams that survived the horrible start up challenges.

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

Also there was a rival league, the WHA that took a lot of the potential talent the Caps could have had.

@dennis3351

Жыл бұрын

Even if lost all 80 games I'd be grateful just to be playing in the league.

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

@@dennis3351 They went through 3 coaches that year. Their last one Milt Schmidt had his best years with Boston.

@dennis3351

Жыл бұрын

@@rockvilleraven Anderson sold cars after at Casey Chevrolet. I almost bought a used car from him 1978.

@chrisward814

Ай бұрын

So true. I never saw that kinda talent available for an expansion team like I saw for Vegas. And that’s counting all major sports leagues.

i thought Bill Clement played in the Cup Final for the Flyers against the Sabers 74-75 and scored the last goal when they clinched, He was not a Capital till 75-76

@gusfring9895

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, good eye Steven! Let's not take anything away from Bill, he busted his butt to get that 2nd Cup. OMR: congrats on a very nice video which prompted my subscription, and sorry to nit-pick, but it would have been outstanding without the 75-76 photos and the mis-pronounced French-Canadien names, such as Michele BELL-heh-MEWRE (or BELL-haym-YOUR). He is one of my all-time favorite goalies; If he had landed with a decent team I think he wold have done well in the NHL. As it was, he had several good years in the AHL.

Wow, this makes the 17-18 coyotes look good.....the yotes would had so many 10 game losing streaks that season....I know how depressing it must have been for caps fan that year.

How does a young british chap like yourself know so much about hockey? Not just the present era, but the 90s, and prior decades?

I’ve subscribed!!!

Hey fix your map in the beginning . The up and Wisconsin like the packers and the wings haha . Thanks for the video

@Eibarwoman

4 жыл бұрын

May have some Wild fans in the far western UP, but that is a matter of distance and disdain of Chicago as Packers/Brewers fans as well. The Blackhawks are poorly tolerated so the Wings and Wild are beneficiaries of the historical hatred of Chicago Bears and Cubs

@paveldatsyuk7175

4 жыл бұрын

Hammable Of Carthage there about as common as Chicago fans haha

@brynncunningham

4 жыл бұрын

Hawaii also likes Anaheim the most. But nobody cares so it’s good

As a Flyers fan, I remember Bill Clement being part of this team. Talk about "penthouse to outhouse"!

@matthewhetzler4912

4 жыл бұрын

I was noticing his pictures prominently featured in the video! Although, in 1974-1975 he was on the Stanley Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers (and scored the last goal in the cup clinching game against Buffalo). So, I imagine those pictures of him in this video must be from a later season?

@Rockhound6165

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewhetzler4912 Clement went to the Caps the following season but was traded to Atlanta halfway through the 75-76 season.

I saw this team play my Penguins on March 15, 1975 at the old Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. We won 12-1. Michel Belhumeur gave up 5 "quick" goals and was relieved by Ron Low, who coughed up 7 more. This team was devoid of the concept of defense and I remember feeling sorry for them.

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

I also blame the rival WHA for taking away some of the talent back then.

Even though I am a Pens' fan, I was really glad that the Caps finally won a Stanley Cup a few years ago because I do remember how bad they were in their early existence.

It’s Yvon LUH-BRAY say it with me slowly

@alanhill8617

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah,he was only one of the first Capitals players to have his number 7 retired. And how many years went by before they were finally able to beat the Philadelphia Flyers?!?!

@armorybrunotjr.3204

3 жыл бұрын

Yvon Labre is the first Washington Capital to have his sweater retired. Bill Clement is the first Capital to play in the All-Star Game.

I was there, it was worse than the stats . I watched the first year Caps fail to advance the puck beyond their own blue line for two consecutive periods.

The terrible 1974-75 Washington Capitals had no real goaltender. Ron Low won eight games, and Michel Belhumeur won none. Belhumeur did not do much of anything behind the twine, but he had perhaps the best surname: Belhumeur is French for "good humor".

Shoutout to Bill Riley, from a town close to me, played 1 game for that 74-75 team, and stuck with the Capitals for a while after

I think Peter Mueller would be an excellent video. Former 2006 #6 overall pick. Had an insane rookie season and never panned out to what he could have been. Would be an interesting video.!

@Isaac-od4rm

4 жыл бұрын

He was my favorite player as a kid, went to so many of his junior hockey games. Such a natural. Shame about his concussions

@haakensonnn

4 жыл бұрын

Isaac R he had insane potential back in the old NHL games. He would always grow to a 99 ovr for me and just dominate lol

Love vids like this and your what ever happend to... 👍

I was there. 6 years old. I remember those days.

they make it even sound sadder when they got a brit on the mic talking about the caps lol

@Redditaurus

4 жыл бұрын

Hes not on a professional contract with the nhl, actually

@CONSOLETRUTH2

4 жыл бұрын

What's amazing is that the cup winning team had/has a Russian Captain.....talk about a total 180 from the cold war if the 70s.

I watched them during this season when they were playing the Canadiens and the Leafs. I always cheered for them even though I knew they were practically guaranteed to lose. Since then I've always had a soft spot for them and was very pleased when they finally won the Cup.

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

They went through 3 coaches that year, the last Milt Schmidt was more famous with the Bruins.

werent the '92 Ottawa senators just as awful? they also only won one road game, and lost 41. i think goalie peter sidorkiewitz only won 8 games and was their all-star

@greatestgoalie25

4 жыл бұрын

I believe Ottawa had a record closer to KC in their first year. Really bad but not bad enough to beat this record.

@peachlover8572

4 жыл бұрын

They and (San Jose) had 24 points.

@Redditaurus

4 жыл бұрын

Paul L they had 24 points. 3 more than Washington isnt exactly sîmilar to kansas unless u go by different criteria like: "Any team wîth more pts than WSH is like Kansas" paul l

@Redditaurus

4 жыл бұрын

Wasnt that 93? The only time two teams battled it out for last place?

Greg Joly may have been the worst #1 overall pick of all time!

@sportssznpodcast2479

4 жыл бұрын

he was bad but that’s bold😂

@logancoolgamer-zn7yu

4 жыл бұрын

Nail Yakupov Enters the chat

@JaredtheRabbit

4 жыл бұрын

Patrik Stefan nearly misses the chat

@bjnt92281

4 жыл бұрын

Alexander Daigle has entered the chat

I’ve been a capitals fan since 1988 after so long waiting and several failed playoff runs I was so happy when they finally won the cup.

As a DC native I’m glad I wasn’t there but my dad was and he told me no one really cared because no one really cared about hockey in dc

Great documentary-I remember when I was a kid around that time frame my team the Red Wings were almost as bad for quite a while. At keast there was one team that they comparatively looked pretty good against. Those original Caps uniforms were awesome they should go back to them.

I find your lack of including Canada in the intro map.... disturbing....

@TheJhn924

4 жыл бұрын

More than disturbing... placing the Canadian teams in various US states is bizarre. Perhaps this KZread creator needs a geography lesson... or a free downloadable map of North America.

@Tropicalfire

4 жыл бұрын

jhn924 that map was made a long time ago

@boadiceafeddersen5354

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tropicalfire it had vgk in it so not that old?

@charlesfecteau

4 жыл бұрын

Tropicalfire define long time ago... the knights were founded in 2017... and why are the oilers tucked away in Alaska? Not sure who did this map but they suck at geography...

@Tropicalfire

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Fecteau by long time ago I meant like 2-3 years ago that’s what I mean probably should have said a couple of years ago.

Reminds me of the inaugural season of the London knights (uk) in the old superleague. 10 wins in 42 games, mostly against equally inept Newcastle, a revolving cast, beleaguered goalies and cast off Basingstoke players, topped by a shock 6-2 stonking of champions Manchester. Oh, and Pat Sharpe as MC. Wonderfully bizarre days gone by.

@evaharrison1733

2 жыл бұрын

Pat Sharpe as MC, oh dear. Guess he hasn't stopped dancing yet (I'll get my coat) XD

@1bert719

2 жыл бұрын

@@evaharrison1733 sadly few will get that reference! 😋

This record won't be broken. The NHL has made it easier for an expansion team to acquire a capable roster that can win more than 8 games in a season. It's good business for the league to make sure new teams can get a fan base behind a team that isn't constantly losing.

@justinwiebe8327

8 ай бұрын

The San Jose Sharks would like to test this theory

0:37 Is that man far left, Ex Edmonton Oilers defenceman Steve Smith.? I didn't know he was coaching.. The story of this man would be nice to hear how things went, he was born in Glasgow in Scotland, and won many Stanley cups in the team of Edmonton Oilers..

Many Long Time Washington Capitals Fans Had a Rough Time Rooting For a Bad Team Before Washington Became Suddenly Good in 1982!

You should have mentioned after one of their few wins, the players mocking picked up a trash can and began to celebrate with it like it was the cup.

2:55 Took a while to realize that the goalie here wearing #30 is hall of famer Bernie Parent. A very, very young pre-Flyers Parent.

I saw Bill Clement's pic several times here, but he didn't play there until the 1975-76 season. Bad research by you!

I honestly wouldn't have thought that the Capitals had such a shaky start in their inaugural season in the NHL

One road win! That was in Oakland against the Seals. Story has it that the players in the visiting dressing room picked up a waste can and passed it around, like winning a Stanley Cup!

San jose sharks and colarado avalanche:"Allow us to intruduce ourselves

The Old "Capital Centre" or the Cap Centre,, I have great memories there,, Bullets Games, concerts with my High School date, leaving the lights on and your battery dead when you walked out. The Concorse Level, pretty cool. It was kind of dark, but for DC area Sports guy, in the 70's, a cool place. A fond memory kind of place, like RFK, gone now. The Caps were just a new team, Hockey wasn't known to us Virginia or Maryland kids much.. 8-67-5 ,, how did they ever win 8.

And look at Vegas was the opposite first in the league. 51-24-7 1st Pacific and got to 2nd playoff round losing to my oilers and the first time in playoffs since 2006.

@DNSKansas

4 жыл бұрын

Bettman wasn't going to let the Knights be as pitiful as the Capitals, Sharks and Senators in their expansion years. Bettman loves the warm weather teams. Why else are the Coyotes still in Arizona?

They picked Greg Joly when they could have picked Brian Trottier LMAO GM Milt Schmidt said Joly will be the next Bobby Orr. Double LMAO

@dwbsovran

4 жыл бұрын

You forget Calgary picking Dale Hunter and the Edmonton on the next pick gets Mark Messier! Hunter was supposed to be tougher!

@14goldmedals

4 жыл бұрын

Joly played all of his minor hockey in our hometown with my big brother. Knew him well as a hero for us youngsters.

@berwick777

4 жыл бұрын

14goldmedals wonder how he would have turned out if he didn’t have his injuries. IMO not a Bobby Orr but could have been a useful player at the NHL level.

The Capitals wore white pants with red jerseys in that first game, and as I remember, it was kind of unusual just for that! Of course they would lose that game, and 66 more to follow. But we will never forget the Washington Capitals of 1974-75!

Jesus and to think I had season tickets to this mess too. I remember being there for the first win but the rest of the season is just a blur. As an oddball aside, when Milt Schmidt was fired my father ended up buying his house. He took me over to see it before Milt moved out and there were all these miniature Stanley Cups in the living room....

In 2019 we Blues fans finally got that jubilation of the first franchise Cup... we had felt your same pain. Well, except that terrible first season.

Part of the problem was the number of decent player exposed in draft was the 20th best player as opposed to vegas and Seattle got the 8th best play on the teams huge factor

so apparently the map shows city of Cleveland are redwings fans. Thats the city of the Blue jackets minor league team...

This record may never be broken

not one canadian team in canada here did you fall off the turnup truck ??

'almost 35 years after..." - That's not how math works. It was 44 years, not 34.

I'm a native Washingtonian born in 1981. It's hard to believe that the inaugural season for the Caps will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Their record in 1974-75 would have made both incarnations of the Senators blush and I would probably think after the novelty wore off, the Cap Centre was virtually empty. Nowadays, trying to get tickets to a Caps game is near impossible just like the Washington Football Team and Georgetown Hoyas Basketball, who played their big Big East games at the Cap Centre in Landover in the 80s.

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

The sellout streak started year or two after Ovetchin start playing with the Caps. I remember their first time they went to the finals against the Red Wings, Susan O’Malley sold 5000 tickets to Detroit area travel agencies for Red Wings packages. They were swept in 4 straight. Game 5 where they beat Vegas, was supposed be scheduled on the same day the Mystics were supposed to have a home game there, so they opened the doors early with free admission to both the basketball game and the viewing party for game 5 on the Jumbotron afterwards.

At least they were an expansion team. Check out the 1989-90 Quebec Nordiques. Not an expansion team and only 12 wins that season.

One nitpick. You said the first year (1972-73) Islanders were 12-60-2; they were actually 12-60-6. Another team that can be called the worst NHL team ever were the Philadelphia Quakers of 1930-31; they were 4-36-4.

The NHL will never allow an expansion team that is as bad as that one was to exist again. Just check out how the league kind of helped Las Vegas to immediately become at the very least competitive from the get go.

@DNSKansas

4 жыл бұрын

And you know Bettman wasn't going to let a team in a warm-weather location fail. Look how much he worships the Coyotes and always does everything to make sure they never leave Arizona.

I lived through Rockies hockey in the 70’s, pretty bad.

I hit the button. You definitely deserve it

I'm trying to figure out why Poulin would change the team colours and logo? It was definately breaking tradition.

Love how u use wiki lol

I saw the flyers destroy the caps 10 to nothing in 74 75 or 75 76.............it was crazy

Speaking of bad starts - when the narrator mispronounces the owner's name in the first sentence after the intro?

I feel like in about 65% of the pictures he put in, you can find at least one person that has an oddly funny facial expression

Man, and I thought the 2016-17 Avalanche were bad

@dannythomas417

Жыл бұрын

Or last year's Habs. So glad Lehkonen was the one that got his revenge after all he's been through.

Zero percent chance that Seattle will have a record even close to this. It's just not possible the way the draft is set up now.

They actually tied The Canadians 4-4 who had Ken Dryden in goal in their first preseason game. I was there and had hope for their first season. My mistake! I’ve never heard a crowd at a game collectively moan so loud at the almost comical things that they would do on the ice. It was at times like the Keystone Cops. Or to quote one of the Charlestown Chiefs from the film Slapshot “This is fuc*ing embarrassing”!

The 1974-75 Capitals were like a baby born prematurely. The NHL was competing with the WHA and I blame a lack of foresight on their part not only for the Capitals having such a futile season; but also for Kansas City Scouts being relocated after just their second season. The irony is, the moment the Capitals made a certain blockbuster deal with my team, the Montreal Canadiens; THAT'S when they started to make the playoffs! ....and the franchise has never looked back.

@DNSKansas

4 жыл бұрын

Gave away Rod Langway. Not good.

@FischerFan

3 жыл бұрын

@@DNSKansas No, you're right. That was NOT good!

it was around this time that the WHA was pretty much on par with the NHL..on average , expansion and the WHA really started to effect the NHLs overall talent pool

Fun Fact: If you were a terrible hockey team in the 70's-early 80's more than likely your goaltender was Ron Low. Also, you showed a picture of captain Bill Clement. Clement didn't join the Caps until the following season. He was still a Flyer in 1974-75(scored the final goal in the Stanley Cup finals against Buffalo).

44 years not 34 years

Very interesting team, we have a Stanley cup, was the best team in the league 3 times, while also having the record for worst season

Remember it like yesterday, Greg Joly , drafted # 1 would be the next Bobby Orr. It was the start of the choking syndrome - losing as the norm was burned into their psyche like an elephant tied to the stake as a baby. As a Habs fan, I never worried about them winning until Ovy slayed the dragon. Until then, all they knew how to do was lose and choke. BTW... remember the 4 OT heartbreak with Pat Lafontaine?

Most team owners of North American sports Leagues have made it a sort of hazing ritual that expansion teams have only mediocre talent available to draft from existing rosters and resources of the existing teams. Case in point: regarding pro basketball When Charlotte Hornets inaugural and second seasons received Shaq O'Neal and Chris Webber and were competitive fairly early in their existence, owners were so dismayed that when the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies were granted franchises, rules were adjusted so that the two new teams could not select the first and second places in the annual draft until their third seasons. Back to NHL, more recently the Vegas Golden Knights, having paid an enormous entrance fee, leveraged a less restrictive arrangement, and with better talent had a startlingly strong impact from their inception. Conditions for Seattle Kracken were less lenient, however they are not exactly 'stinking out the joint'. Incidentally, until the Capitals set the benchmark for early onset futility, the title holders were 'The Lowly Islanders' of New York' who became the : 'How About Those Islanders' and eventually became a cup winning juggernaut.

I so remember the 1974-75 Capitals..it took till the 2nd half of the 1979-80 season where they got 39 points in the last 40 games where they showed signs of climbing into the league finally..and when they beat the Habs for the first time in their history that year 3-1 I believe it was and the fans in Washington flooded the ice like they won the cup..it was that big back then..so for years when the Sabres were knocked out I would always pull for the Caps mostly cause of their first season..they were 1-39-0 on the road that year and their lone win was in KC the other expansion team..without a doubt the worst team we will ever see..even the Sharks team that lost 70 games? would have swept this Caps team 4 straught in a best of 7 lol..all this said? they still have a Stanley Cup and I am still waiting :( but if any franchise I could say suffered like the Sabres in their playoff history? its easily the Capitals

3:48 they all look the same

@tomryan914

4 жыл бұрын

All that 'cool' 70's hair !

How about the 1980-81 Winnipeg Jets. They won only 9 games that season.

@waynejohanson1083

4 жыл бұрын

They sucked and I thing they hold the record for most games without a win.

@asd36f

4 жыл бұрын

Ron Loustel, where are you?

@DNSKansas

4 жыл бұрын

The Jets were for all intents and purposes a second year team with only a few veterans. John Ziegler allowed the WHA teams (Jets, Oilers, Whalers, Nordiques) to have their rosters plundered by the existing NHL teams upon the "merger".

Don't forget the lowly 72-73 Islanders. 12 wins 60 losses and 6 ties. 30 points.

Mike Marson is now a bus driver in Toronto.

My first game was a in 2013 Washington vs canes I feel in love with hockey I’m in a aa travel team right now

@jazz.feels.

3 жыл бұрын

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The 1980-81 Winnipeg Jets weren't much better. While the Caps went 8-67-5 in 74-75 with 21 points, the Jets went 9-57-14 with 32 points. A little better, but not much. BUT, it did get us Dale Hawerchuck, a future hall-of-famer, with the next year's #1 pick, so...

What's with the white pants in those old b&w photos vs. Rangers?

11:17 Yvonne Lab?!!! Apparently this British narrator doesn't know how to pronounce French names.

I’m a sabres fan! Do I need to say more?