This was the first season Paul Morris took over as P.A Announcer. He would remain in the position until the end of the 1998-99 season, when they moved over to Air Canada Centre. They offered him to just stay on as announcer but he decided to retire.
Damn, Banana Joe announcing the goals and penalties even then. He was the best ever. When I was a kid in the 90s I loved how he said "Goal by number 17, Wendel Clark, time..."
Bill Hewitt was arguably the best play-by-play announcer ever. Danny Gallivan and Dan Kelly were close seconds. What made Hewitt, Gallivan and Kelly so good was that you could close your eyes and just listen and you could visualize exactly what was happening in the game. I love watching these old games. Takes me back to some of the happiest days of my childhood...
Sorry.the best announcer of that era.. and we are talking Canadian..was Tim Ryan..case closed...he made more money than those three combined and then some. Not only did he do hockey..how about Ali-Frasier etc...etc...those three could only dream of Ryan's career.
@@nighthawk552001 I don't know how old u are..but back then if u could get either nbc or cbs from the buffalo stations u most certainly knew who tim ryan was. he was the toronto boy who made good. he was all the talk..started at cfrb and did the jr marlies and cfl on cfto channel 9. when u look at his resume u could say he was easily canada's greatest sportscaster. NHL, NFL,NBA boxing. olympics, wimbledon etc..etc..
@@nighthawk552001 so am I and if u never heard of him..here's a clue..he had a co-worker at CTV who left for the states at around the same time..does the name peter jennings ring a bell. If u heard of Jennings then u heard of Ryan. here's a thought..go find ali-frazier 1 and listen to the announcer, that's tim ryan.
I wonder how many people notice the nice clean white boards and not the billboards we are stuck with now. And not to mention how even the ice has advertising on now. Give me the Original 6 days any day of the week.And also no helmets, no visors, and NO Beards.
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Plante and Bower both made goaltending a science. I would argue that Plante was one of the most innovative athletes ever for team sport and remains the template of good goaltending. Same with Bower for goalies not as large but with reflexes. In both styles the shooter reacts to the goalie not the other way giving the best chance of either stopping the puck or causing shooter to miss
I've always been struck by how quiet crowds are at some games in Canada. Remember watching Oilers, Flames, Canucks games where the full arena was basically silent unless something especially exciting was happening.
The New York Rangers made two big trades in rebuilding their team. Before the 1963-64 season, they sent Gump Worsley, Dave Balon, Leon Rochefort and Len Ronson to Montreal for Jacques Plante, Phil Goyette and Don Marshall. During that season, they traded Andy Bathgate and Don McKenney to Toronto for Dick Duff, Bob Nevin, Bill Collins, Arnie Brown and Rod Seiling. Despite/because of that turnover, the Blueshirts won just 22 games in 1963-64. In 1964-65 - the season the game seen here was played - they won 20 games.
One of the ABSOLUTE WORST trades Punch Imlach ever made. Bathgate was loathed by his Toronto teammates - they called him Bathtub. He was gone within a year - traded to Detroit in the deal for Marcel Pronovost. Duff was one of the most popular Leafs of the 60s; Nevin became team captain. Arnie Brown and Rod Seiling were each Ranger mainstays for 12 years, and Bill Collins went on to have a great career with the Minnesota North Stars.
I remember all Ranger fans hated that trade! In those days at the Old Garden a balcony seat cost 50 cents with a student card. You'd see 40 year old men in line with a high school GO card no problem, fill those seats!
@@pls2028 please tell me More about how Bathgate's Maple Leaf teammates disliked him! Was it how he played hockey or somethings he would say in the dressing room? As a fan, I remember that, on paper at least, Red Kelly centering between Andy Bathgate & Frank Mahovlich on the same line would explode with Lots of Goals! And I remember being disappointed 😥 when things didn't turn out that way.
@@poettttt Apparently, the latter. Mr. Bathgate had a pretty high opinion of himself and how he should have been used as a Leaf. It don’t go over too well with some of his teammates. As I said before, I have it on good authority his nickname in Toronto was “Bathtub”. He didn’t last too long here - he was shipped out a little over a year later as part of the deal that brought Marcel Pronovost to the Leafs
Thank you,@@pls2028! I remember the 1964-65 Leafs with expectation that Kelly/Bathgate/Mahovlich would explode with Goals, Goals, Goals! After all, it was only 6-7 years before that Bathgate stood next to Bobby Hull & BoomBoom Geoffrion who were the 50-goal equals to Rocket Richard. And Red Kelly was a talented playmaker. Plus, Punch Imlach was known for encouraging hockey veterans. But as Bill Hewitt might have said: "The line Failed to Click..." Also: I recall reading at that time that Imlach's close checking defensive hockey style inhibited Bathgate's wide open skating style-and THAT was his way to score Goals. Do you recall something like that? Thanks again for filling me in on this hockey 🏒 🥅 History!
This is Toronto announcer Foster Hewitt doing the play by play announcing. One of my favorite announcers of all time. Number 4 for Toronto is Red Kelly, who's number was recently retired by the Detroit Red Wings. He was the very first Norris Trophy winner for the best defenseman in the NHL.
Players were further away from each other during face offs....Plante was the only goalie that wore a mask in 1964....because of facial injury...had a severe black eye in the aftermath.....Kenneth
Jacques was a very smart man and an innovator. When he brought out the mask while playing for the Canadiens in the 1950's, his coach, Toe Blake, did not like it at all, thinking that was a sign of lack of courage. Amazing.
@@clintscroggs65 No, the most common complaint is that, take the Leafs for example: if they always have to wear blue at home, then every single game the Toronto fans ever get to see is blue vs white. If they would go back to home whites, then the home fans get some variety, it could be white vs red, white vs black, white vs green, white vs yellow and so on (I'm talking about modern teams of course. Back in the original six days there was only a handful of colors anyway)
@@clintscroggs65 Punch Imlach said years ago when he was the boss of the Sabres, that wearing white at home made it easier to keep the uniforms clean, than if they wore them on the road..
I'd say a Saturday in November of 1964 going by the ad for a Rodeo in November and the Ice Capades in December., so the 64 /65 season. Also, Andy Bathgate was traded to the Leafs late in the 63/64 season.
I believe the date of this game was Saturday 11/7/64 since Bill Hewitt said in the 2nd period that the Leafs were playing the Red Wings the following Wednesday night. Therefore this was the only possible date as there were no other dates with the Red Wings following the Rangers against the Leafs in 1964.
According to Hockey Reference, this game was played November 7, 1964. Keon wasn't in the line up that night. He missed just five games that year and this was one of them.
I didn't think Hockey Night In Canada carried regular-season games in full until the 1968-69 season, so I suspect this may have been a local New York telecast.
this is most definitely HNIC with Bill Hewitt calling the game. I was thinking the same though...I do remember that the wednesday night HNIC broadcasts started in the 2nd Period.
No if you noticed there was no back up voice until the 2nd period so they had Bill Hewitt to the game without any color man until it went live in the 2nd period
THis is great hockey. Today's players can afford to be more reckless and can skate faster because they are all helmeted with face-masks. They don't have to worry about high-sticking to the jaw bone. The guys you see without helmets also had to protect themsleves from spearing which you don't see too much of nowadays either. All these guys could really skate but they had to be careful. There were some vicious players out there with one referee.
Also: In the 6-team league the players played against the same guys so often that they knew the habits of each opponent. So they could play with caution, waiting for the other guy to show his weakness. There was no free agency, so the good players on each team stayed there for years.
