Thanks for uploading this. Hockey was so much more entertaining back then. I was a huge North Stars fan. One of the best rivalries ever with the Black Hawks. We actually had Spectrum Sports.
The entire 'Chuck' Norris Division was a great rivalry! All the teams had true hatred for each other and when two teams faced off in this division, the games were never dull.
HUGE Hawks fan here for 60ish years! I remember when Stars knocked off the FIRST place Hawks circa 1991? Stars went to SCFs that year, then Hawks the NEXT year!
@@mr.blackhawk142 The Stars were stuck in Bloomington at a crap building at the time they were losing and a lot of stuff was going on in downtown/campus Minneapolis competing for their $$$ (Super Bowl, Vikings, Twins World Series, NCAA Final Four, US Open, Gophers B-Ball, hockey and football success, TWolves first year in new Target Center).
@@fluffybunnyfeet3923 You remember the "Home and Homes" they used to have on successive nights between Division rivals back in the 80s? Yikes. They were rough and so much fun to watch.
Games 4-5-6 of this series were absolutely spectacular. Game 4 was a fun back and forth affair, Chicago takes it in OT 7-6 to take a 3-1 stranglehold on the series. Back in Chicago Stadium trying to close things out the Black Hawks jump out to a 4-0 lead midway through the 2nd. North Stars cut it to 4-2, then score 2 in the later stages of the 3rd to knot it at 4-4. Maruk wins it in OT. Game 6 back at the Met Center is another back and forth thriller. Minnesota is clinging to a 5-4 lead with less than 5 minutes to play but Chicago ties it 5-5. After an exciting OT period Darryl Sutter finally wins the series for Chicago
That was a big rival between those two teams when they went into the Norris Division. Bigger than the rival with St. Louis. Once the team moved to Dallas. That rival fizzled out after one year in Dallas. Many fights. Or bench clearing brawls, Was one of the biggest rivals in the NHL at that time. My memories where when my friends at the tailgate parties outside met center was playing boot hockey with the Chicago fans in the parking lot. And won against them.
3:29:56- The Famous "Bannnnnnnner mannnnn" save! Pat Foley screamed the save on the Chicago feed; i remember it so well, i couldn't watch the OT's because i was too damn nervous, was standing in the kitchen peeking occasionally.... What a series!!!
Willie Plett-zky. loved the guy. Secord ! Dino the dinosaur ! Savard the Rat ! would love to see an old timer game with these guys ? Dump it and drink beer style of hockey
That was a good series. Sutter had a nice goal. low left corner to beat Beaupre. I was at that game. Chicago and Minnesota fought hard. Went into OT. Sutter just blasted a low bullet in the left corner. Great shooter. Knows where to beat the goalie on the corners..
I was at that game too, Russell. Remember the Stars used to come out LIT to the "Upper Mississippi Shakedown" by Lamont Cranston. Lee Valsvik used to run the music ops there and she was awesome. This was probably the last of the winning Stars teams until their improbable Stanley Cup run in 91. I miss this team. The Wild are GREAT but the game is so damn different now.
This was the last game with that particular scoreboard, as it would get a new scoreboard with a color dot matrix display (similar to the ones used in the Pacific Coliseum, Montreal Forum, and Winnipeg Arena).
My first memory of Frank Mazzacco was that of TV voice of the Minnesota Golden Gophers on FOX North (Living in NYC, I was not aware of Spectrum Sports Cable in the Twin Cities region)
Wow people weren't kidding when they say hockey was more fun back then. Its so much more exciting that today's game. If I had a dollar for every play that fell id have about $50
If you actually believe that every game from 35 years ago was as intense as this one then you are mistaken. A lot of games were slow and dull back then too.
He did that spin-or-rama at full speed. Other players have done it, but not at the speed Savard could stop and spin and unleash an accurate shot or pass. He was a stud.
This is EPIC blast from the past footage. I was in 5th grade when this was happening. Wow! Thank you for posting!!! Do you have other North Star playoff games or even regular games from the 80's like the Flyers, Edmonton or Cam Neely and the Bruins? Absolutely awesome.
2:45 Kerry Fraser says no penalty shot when it was a textbook case for a obvious penalty shot. Kerry Fraser saw it all the way BEFORE he fell. What a choke. Hawks were entitled to a win if he's going to do that.
2:29:40- About as big of a "gut check" you will ever see in hockey.... Blackhawks lose Game 5 (blow it really) and have to fly back to Minn for this Game 6. Hawks somehow battle back FIVE times from 1 goal deficits, (all this while their 2nd best player Doug Wilson gets hurt in the second period) and then face this penalty to Troy AND Sutter.... yet still somehow pull this game out. Might be one of the greatest games in Blackhawk history.
If I'm not mistaken, the Hawks had a 4-0 lead midway through Game 5, the fans were singing the "Hey hey goodbye" song, and the North Stars came back and won 5-4 in overtime.
That Hawks team definitely had could pick itself off the mat. The following series vs powerhouse Edm they get absolutely blasted Games 1 and 2 (don't even want to look at the scores feels like if I combined them it would be something like 103-5. However Games 3 and 4 against the defending Champs they battle back and get the series to 2-2. Eventually Edm talent ended up being too much to handle but that team was not going down without a fight
Oh man senior year in HS in Minneapolis memories...! God how we HATED the Hawks, it was more like English Football rivalries than most American sports. And forget the hollow empty soulless fake woke corporate pro sports world of today...yeah, it makes someone sound like an old F'er but the reality is things were better, life was much more fun for those of us who were kids of GenX. No school shootings, no kids on handfuls of psychotropic meds (POSSIBLY a connection there?) no internet (obviously no social media, smart phones etc.) no fake patronizing foisting of victim narratives...all North Stars fans loved Tony Mac, do you think the random immutable accidental arbitrary place on the globe that his ancestors came from ever even crossed anyone's mind, let alone was a problem for anyone? It's unimaginable that he would have even been asked about it, no doubt he would have been (rightfully) stunned and offended if a reporter dared to suggest he was to be singled out as a victim simply for that fact. It never came up because it was, and is, IRRELEVANT. He was a great hockey player for the Stars...what else need be said? So incredibly sad how far backwards we've gone, regressive, destructive people posing as progressive. Amazing what thoughts a hockey game from your senior year in high school can trigger. Like THE WRESTLER said....'the 80's, man. The 80's'
So, you're saying Tony Mckegney never had to deal with racism because it was the 80's, or that he kept quiet about it (and you're glad) because it was the 80's?
North Stars fans were notorious for bailing out when it looked like they might not win a series. I was at Game 6 of a quarterfinal series against Montreal in 1980. The North Stars had won the first two at the Forum and then lost three straight. There were easily 2,500 empty seats at Game 6, which the North Stars won. They went on to win Game 7 and end Montreal's run of 4 straight Cups.
Twin Cities fans were fair-weather fans. The original owners almost folded the team in the late 70s due to horrible attendance. After the merger with Cleveland brought some good years and a boost in attendance, attendance started dropping after this season (as another commentor pointed out). By the end of the 89-90 season the North Stars were dead last in attendance and the Gund Bros were ready to move the team to San Jose. After a deal was made to keep the North Stars in Minnesota attendance grew even worse. A brief spike in attendance and the run to the 91 finals got the North Stars off life support, attendance plummeted again. The league was tired of the poor situation and gave Norm Green permission to move the team. But people there would rather blame Norm Green than themselves. Too bad because the name and logo for the North Stars was way better than the Wild.
@@damienchance2622 more destroy that's great for that site I wish the North Stars were in Minnesota I think everybody would agree on that have a great week
