1987 Playoffs: Red Wings-Maple Leafs Series Recap 

RIP Jaques and Brophy... This series is my first Red Wings memory, what a great series

My future step dad took me to game 7. I will never forget Glen Hanlons 3-0 shut out 👊 So cool to see this again Thank you so much!!

Love this uniform matchup too. Toronto and the Wings just have two base colors back then. Blue and white vs red and white...an original 6 beauty. Love me some 80s hockey Always respected Wregget in the playoffs he seemed to raise his game even in defeat

I would love to see more footage from this series. One for the ages, and a real feather in the caps of all the Wings players who were involved.

Thanks for finding this! Weird that the original producers chose not to show idiot Brophy making the choking sign at Demers, as it was a huge focal point at the time, giving the Wings added motivation for the comeback and making the final result that much sweeter.

I grew up outside of Detroit, in 87 I was 12 years old, my dad made me watch the playoffs with him. I never missed a game after this. Thanks for sharing

This was awesome! Thanks for posting

This is amazing. I watched this video about 50 times as a kid. Thanks for posting!

You’re awesome for posting this.

Where does the time go? I watched this series on WKBD 50 in Detroit, remember Ray Layne? What a great guy . Great era of hockey

I know the Ultimate end in the playoffs is the stanley cup, but it sounded like winning you're division back in the day actually meant something.

- The 1987 playoffs were the beginning of the rebirth for the storied Red Wings, who'd struggled for years prior to '87 and just the previous season had finished dead last overall. But Jacques Demers came aboard and brought the Wings back to respectability in '87. Thus began a 30-year period of prominence for the Wings who'd missed the playoffs just ONCE over the next 30 seasons up until 2017. Along the way the Wings would win 4 Stanley Cups( 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008 )after having gone more than 40+ years without winning even once. As for the Leafs in '87, well...just think, if they'd closed out the Wings at home in Game 6 they could've actually made it to the Campbell Conference Final...although they likely would've been no match for the vaunted Edmonton Oilers anyway.

Yzerman was transforming into a world class player here...

I was there that night the loudest I ever heard that building. We bought season tickets in 1986 row 1 section 104 my buddy Mark jumped on the ice when this game ended thank God he did not get arrested. Old time hockey. Probert, Kocur, Bridgeman to many to list.

This is one of my top five Red Wing moments. This was not just an exciting series, but it came after a couple of decades of miserable futility. Finally, we had a winner in Detroit again!

This was only the second time a team came back to win the series after being down 3 games to 1. The first happened earlier in the 1987 playoffs, when the New York Islanders came back to beat the Washington Capitals. Yes, THAT series.

The music is beautiful

2:07 goaltending sure has come along way 🤣

2:23 Tom Selleck??

Tom Selleck rooting for the Leafs? Isn't he a Detroit Tigers fan?

What the hell did he call Dan Daoust at 1:02???

11:28 what happened to him (I thought Al the Octopus was the Team's Mascot) Edit: His name is Red Winger Mr I used him as one of the way to get people to show up to games he was used from 1982 to 1987 (Jim Wilczak the guy who was Red Winger throw out the costume after he kept getting overheated in it plus the Wings got better so Mr I didn't worry about it) It wasn't until 1995 The Wings got a Mascot and we all know who he is

Was this from 1987 red wings yearbook?

If this script was written now it would literally be an SNL skit.

Exciting series, but at the end of the day, it was irrelevant. Edmonton next round!

Mike Allison got the winner Game 4 to put them up 3-1

Great highlights but the script writer wasn't a hockey fan.

1987 the Year Detroit Owned Toronto Red Wings beat Maple Leafs in 7 Games Tigers beat Blue Jays to win the AL East

The narrator is always so dramatic whenever he says John Brophy's name.

Goaltending was so bad then 😂

WTF?!? #29 Brad Smith of the Leafs is not one of the toughest guys in the league!! A frequent punching bag, a more talented version of Jeff Brubaker. Clark and McGill were the Leafs only tough guys in 87. Have to give credit to the Leafs for pushing the much tougher and more talented Red Wings to 7 games though! Detroit had begun its long climb to a Dynasty.

The Leafs tossed this one away. Frustrating but 93 was revenge.

Man that goaltending was awful