1976 STANLEY CUP FINALS FILM "CLASH FOR THE CUP" 

Reminds me of my Coleco Stanley Cup table top hockey game when I was kid. Flyers vs. Canadiens. Even came with a little plastic Stanley Cup. . . that the dog chewed. I freakin' loved that game.

The 70s Habs was the best NHL team ever!!!!

THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER TEAM LIKE THE CANADIENS IN THE 70'S!

that Montreal defense tho, holy cow

76 Habs greatest single season ever..132 points 60 wins⚡🥊🇨🇦

70s Habs! My team. Guy Lafleur, my hero! Man, I miss those days!

I was sixteen year's old, Now sixty one wow.. thanks for the memories to all of the members of the Montreal Canadians , you've left behind a legacy which most likely well never be match Four Stanley cup champions ship's in a row .. Hockey in Montreal Quebec is not just a game , it's a religion and very seacret to us here, thanks again for the memories.

The riverton rifle scores 4 goals in series and sets a NHL Playoff record with 19 goals in the playoffs that still stands to this day tied with jarri kurri

A beer and a smoke between periods. Ahhh the good ol days.

the Canadian of 76 and 77 the best NHL team ever .

Montreal deserved the Cup , they were a great team but the Flyer’s battled with them every step of the way. Great series.

This was a great team that never received their just due. A phenomenal team who had role players, clutch players, who all knew and accepted their respective roles. The Islanders always fashioned their run post Les Habitants'. They met often in the playoffs, as Montreal taught the Islanders' Dynasty how to win. Just as Gretzky often mentions how the Isles taught the Oilers how to win off losing, so did Montreal for the Islanders. Adversity built character for both Edmonton & the Isles in their respective runs thanks to these great Canadiens teams from the 70s. It was a great time to be a hockey fan as we watched three great teams dominate the sport for 12 years.

I love the games from the 70 and 80's. It still makes me smile that on every goal the team would clear the bench to celebrate.

Big thank you for this, I really enjoyed it.

Thanks for posting!

I was a Habs fan and I thought they had met their match. Yes, Parent sitting out was helpful, but the Flyers were beaten out from the goal line. They could play the game any way the Flyers wanted and still be superior. Surprisingly, they even played the rough and tumble Flyer style for a while and were superior at that too. At the end, the Flyers were a physically beaten team.

That hit from Larry still echoes in the old Forum

I'm a hockey fan and a hockey player I remember this Stanley cup 1976 best game between these teams

One of the Habs, years later, remarked there was a reason why the Canadien players were sitting down for pictures with the Cup after taking Game Four. That's how exhausted they were from the physical demand of sweeping a team as good as Philly.

This music reminds me of go go dancers with knee-high boots

I still remember this series + the last game + the crowdie parade in a wonderful sunny day in Montreal ( a Saturday i think). Everything was beautiful then.

I love everything 70s. My childhood and early teens. That Habs team is the best of all time. Sorry Wayne.

Outside Boston and Philly twice, the 70s weren't a fun decade if you were not a Habs fan

Who said the Flyers only could only play the goon part of the game? Bobby Clarke won his 3 rd Hart Trophy 🏆 👏 in 4 years as NHL MVP

Notice the lack of names on the back of uniforms and advertising on the boards.

shutt's 2nd goal in game 3 is magical.

The 70's Habs plays 3 seasons in a row and lost only 30 games . they lost 8 , 10 and 12 games in those seasons . Wow , what a team they had when they acquired Frank M.

The canadiens teams 1976-1978 were like the 1927 Yankees. Raw talent!

awesome post

Love me some Bobby Clarke! Greatest moment is when I met him in the afternoon skate while he was the G. M. for the Minnesota North Stars . That was 1990/91 when my beloved Pittsburgh Penguins had their way with them during the cup finals. Also when Mr. Mario Lemieux owned the HNL during those days.

10 yrs later Robinson's hard hits brought another cup , not before he won the Smythe in 78 . though . Lol , Whatta team ! The Islanders nor the Oilers had the defense that Mtl's 70's teams had .

From an time when people dressed respectably when going out in public.

This was known as the " Good vs Evil " series

Best memories of May 1976.

I would like to see the 80s Oilers against 70s Canadians . Now that would be a series. Hockey used to be so much better. Thanks Gary

The Broadstreet Bullies got Bullied!

They had to bring the cup home for 1976 Olympic games

those were the days. finesse vs braun. so many hall-of-famers. in game 1, the only time I ever saw Robinson jumping after a goal, before or since. no adverts on boards, no helmets, no teeth ! real hockey.

Great memories..

'76 Flyers were good but were soundly defeated by Montreal... '76-79 Canadiens were the best hockey team ever which has already been stated but bears repeating... that team had no weakness...

The eternal argument will be what if the Flyers had Parent and MacLeish. Not a fan of the flyers then or now but I'm not in the camp that says they intimidated their way to two cup wins and 3rd cup appearance. They were a hard working team and not without their own skill on the ice. They did intimidate but they mostly outworked other teams and had a handful of guys who could put the puck in the net. I don't think they were going to take the Habs this year but the series was much closer than many seem to remember...3 one goal games. The Habs were clearly the more skilled team but in this series they outworked, outhit, and out skated the Flyers...they were not intimidated at all. The Habs were always known for their skating and playmaking, but their defensive prowess was often overshadowed by their offensive power. They won a lot of 1 goal games during their 70's dominance...and came from behind in a lot of those. Nobody wanted to be up a goal on them going into the 3rd against the Habs. I do think that Parent and MacLeish would have made a difference but over 7 games I still think the Habs win. Dryden actually had a pretty bad series and let in some weak goals. Hard to believe this was over 40 years ago and the flyers haven't won since the year preceding this series. The mid to late 70's saw 3 teams with Dynasty potential (Mtl,Bost,Phi), and a 4th knocking on the door with the Ilsanders. Buffalo with some really good teams in that era just couldn't get it done in the playoffs. Great era of Hockey.

The good ol'days!!!! ❤️ F--kin' A

I love these Stanley Cup playoffs films. Who were they made for originally? Where were they shown? I don't remember seeing them on tv.

Montreal was a better team that year but I would imagine that if the Flyers goalie Bernie Parent was not injured and played in this series, it would have been a lot closer than a sweep. Bernie Parent is a Hall of Fame goalie.

Best team ever

You really wish this team of the habs and especially the next year (77 habs were statistically the best team ever) could have played the 85-87 oilers teams. That would be the cup finals for the ages.

The Flyers simply ran out of gas, back to back Cups in ‘74 & ‘75 beating Boston & Buffalo means long seasons, plus injured Bernie Parent was recipe for Cup streak to end. Besides Montreal was a more powerful machine and won the next three years closing out the 1970’s.....next dynasty up after the Habs, the New York Islanders.....Philly hasn’t won a Cup since beating the Sabres in 1975....

This was a great start to the 1979 Challenge Cup. Unfortunately as we all know the tournament didn’t end well. Tretaik and Dryden was the ultimate goaltender match up.

GO HABS GO!

This showed that you can only get so far with bullying play before the rest of the league catches on.

Back when the Montreal Canadiens were the "Flying Frenchmen ".

Grand pop said this was the best game he ever seen

My Dad went to school with the brothers❤

It's interesting to note - watching how top-flite NHL hockey was played back in 1976. So much of the checking and stick work - especially around the body and across the hands - are all penalties now. Not say that's good or bad. It's just the way the game is called now. There's so much more freedom from the stick work to build offensive chances. Back in 1976, good teams would clog you. They'd slow you down. They'd chip at you to limit clean entry and clean passing.

If you lived anywhere but Philadelphia, you were rooting for the Habs. The Flyers were the most disliked team in hockey and maybe the most disliked team of all-time in any major sport because of the way they, uh, "played."

I think that there's an error late in this video. The '76 Cup win was Montreal's 19th, I believe. '71 was the 17th, and '73 was the 18th.

one of the greatest Stanley Cup finals of all time in terms of the high level of talent on both teams, fan interest and the overall significance. the only other finals that can compare are the 1983 finals between the 2 dynasties (islanders vs Oilers), 1980 when the Montreal reign finally ended, and 1994 (because of the 54 year drought of the NY rangers). most other finals since then were either a mismatch (most notably 1982), or are in the Bettman era with talent spread thin over too many teams + neutral zone trap.

Loved Big Bird !

Dude this is totally awesome. Have you got the 1977 and '78 Stanley Cup films as well?

Ooof. That goaltending 🧐😳😳

wish someone had vid of the brawl in warm up in game 1 . flyers where beaten before the drop of the puck. habs fan since 1971 Dryden rookie

Wow!!! Awesome footages. Can you get that same type of documentary from the 1979 Stanley cup?

If Parent was in there, the Flyers may have stolen a game or two, but the Montreal teams of those years were way too good

If Parent and Mcleash were playing in this series the Flyers would have won 3 straight

No, sorry, do not have those films. Good question, though, I don't recall ever having seen them.

Two greatest dynasty’s were the Habs of the 70s and the Oilers of the 80s

I'm a Brit & a fan for only a year, but is this in slo-mo - or has the pace of the NHL become insanely fast in 2020?

8:28 Does Wayne Stephenson even move on that shot by LaFleur?

the flyers......'are going home'....4 straight

My flyers were swept ouch!

every highlight in this video has robinson in it

Bob Gainey was an awesome checker.

The music is too cool

I loved pulling for Wayne Stephenson. Great story filling in for Bernie....unfortunately you cannot be just an adequate back up goalie. He played well at times....just not Stanley Cup level especially against a Juggernaut like that Habs team

When big Larry came up from the AHL , Dave Shultz went into hiding .

And to think the great harry sinden left leach uncovered in the expansion draft.also drafted terry orielly over larry robinson.orielly probably would have been available for 5 more rds.and one of his biggest blunders ever harry drafted rick smith over brad park

What ever happened to Bobby Clark and Dave Shultz?

The guy whose team got swept in the finals got awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy?

No reflection on the Flyers. They lost to the deepest team in NHL history.

# go flyers

wayne stephenson played as well,if not better than bernie parent ever has/would have....no excuses-philly would be fortunate to win 4 of 20 games against this canadiens' team-with parent/stephenson or superman in goal.....

The Flyers were without Bernie and MacLeish.The games were still close.

Lol damn

No Bernie Parent.... Interesting!

Reggie Leach had an amazing playoffs, but the Conn Smythe should have gone to Guy Lafleur imo - Canadiens swept the Flyers !

The Canadians strength was THIER style of play defense defense defense to the point of frustrating exhaustion for the other team and then a lightning attack of a forced mistake and boom they're ahead to play more smothering defense.

Lemaire was the key. Jarvis became better than Clarke.

When you’re good, you’re also lucky. Luck was really on the Habs side. Each game was close.

No Bernie Parent might've been a different series had BP been healthy..

People forget just how important McLeish and parent were to the flyers , they were their 2 best playoff performers , and neither Stanley cup would have been won by the flyers without both those guys. They were also missing their best puck moving defenseman in jim Watson . Imagine the Canadiens without ken Dryden and someone who at the time was comparable to McLeish like Steve shutt and someone comparable to what jim Watson brought to the flyers , like serve savard . The Canadiens team would have been handled very badly if the tables were flipped . Each game was so close, and the flyers were missing their best players . The Canadiens couldn't even beat the Russians that year. The flyers were the best team of this series ,but sadly were taken out by injuries . Parent did 5x as much than what Dryden did for his team. Parent was the flyers, Dryden was good but overrated

No perent no cup.

Basically a hockey team beat a prison ball hockey team.

The Canadiens might have won this series but the Flyers beat the Soviets when the Canadiens couldn't.

Sometime ago, I was a Lifelong Fan of the Habs... Funny how things go... and the Team became a political mess.

I would take Tikkanen Gretzky Paul Coffey,Mark Messier,Jari Kurri,Glenn Anderson,Grant Fuhr,Charlie Huddy,Graig MacTavish,Kevin Lowe,Chris Pronger,Dave Semenko 4 cups all all stars and have more I can't even pronounce

If the Flyers had Parent in net, and were healthy, it would have been a 3-peat for the Flyers.

stephenson cost the flyers game 3

that jazzy music though awful

Dryden was vastly overrated

Clarke was the worst cheap shot artist ever.