1992-93: The GREATEST Season In NHL History 

I was born two months and eleven days later in that city. I guess the air had changed by December.

Something in the air in Quebec? 98% chance it's cigarette smoke and that's coming from a Quebecers lol

I have the same bday as Wayne Gretzky lol

"En 65 tout était beau...c'était l'année de l'amour, c'était l'année de l'expo" la lal alallaala

Something in the air 9 months prior you mean

It's more likely that NHL 94 was the game that absorbed the stats from this crazy season.

​@jimjamz. Yep, and 94 just happens to be one of the greatest NHL video games ever made. Still played today.

@@CallsignJoNayright like I just played a game a few weeks ago with my dad

Marioaustin9312 mentioned NHLPA HOCKEY 93 that came out in 1992, because it was that game that hockey fans were playing in 1992-1993, and since the video is about 1992-1993, he felt it should have been mentioned. However, it's true that the IRL players stats during the 1992-1993 season influenced their ratings for the next game; NHL 94. NHL 94 came out in September of 1993 for the 1993-1994 season. 1993-1994 is the first season Hasek won a Vezina, and he has a 52 overall in the game (NHL 94). 🤣 Fuhr has a 84 overall and was the 2nd goalie for the EAST ALL-STAR, yet his stats were nearly the same as Hasek's in 92-93. (The Buffalo ones. Fuhr was a bit better with Toronto going to Buffalo. Fuhr's overall is close to accurate but not Hasek's. John Blue 62 overall, but Andy Moog 59 overall? 🤣 Moog had 37w-14L-3t in 55gp in 92-93. Moog deserved a 90. Mike Vernon 63. 🤣 He should have 85+. Vernon had nearly the same stats as Roy in 92-93 but Roy got a 94. Yeah okay. Belfour and Barrasso were on the same level that year, but Belfour was given a 98, and Barrasso a 74. GO FIGURE! Barrasso 74, 3rd goalie for the EAST ALL-STAR. Mogilny, 127pts, 96 overall. Yep, Mogilny was INSANE in 1992-1993. So he became the 2nd best forward player rating in the game, simply because of that 76g in 77gp and his speed. Lafontaine, 148pts, 91 overall. Lafontaine should have been 94 at minimum. I remember someone in the comments of another video that was saying that Mogilny got carried by Lafontaine. 🤣 I don't know what kind of kool aid they were drinking but I thought it would be funny to mention that here. Where was Lafontaine when Mogilny was carrying a garbage Canucks team while Bure was injured? **Crickets** Roenick, 107pts, 89 overall, though he was designed to be the toughest player to knockdown according to the game devs. Modano, 93pts, 82 overall. 🤣Inaccurate. I'd say he was a 88-89. Yzerman, 137pts, 95 overall. Arguable accurate because you can't go lower than that. Fedorov, 87pts, 84 overall. Inaccurate. Like Hasek, Fedorov had an elite season in 93-94 and he won the Hart. Coffey, 87pts, 83 overall. Inaccurate. Both Fedorov and Coffey deserved a 90 minimum. Turgeon, 132pts, 82 overall. LMAO Beezer 62 overall, Richter 60 overall. WHAT? LMAO Leetch 76. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Blasphemy. Oates, 142pts, 93 overall. He deserved the rating, though I don't see why Turgeon didn't get a 91 or 92. Robitaille, 125pts, 85 overall. I don't know man, Robi should also have at least a 91 minimum. Selanne, 132pts, 90 overall. Then you understand why Turgeon or Robitaille got a 90. However, Selanne was more like a 94. Gilmour, 127pts, 89 overall. Close but no cigar, 91 or 92. Recchi, 123pts, 83 overall. LMAO. Recchi was more like a 91 or 92 as well. Sundin, 114pts, 79 overall! HAHAHAHAHAHA. Sundin was a 90. K.Stevens, 111pts, 77 overall! HAHAHAHA. 89 is the minimum he should've received, but I'd say 90. Lemieux, 160pts, 100 overall. Can't give him lower than 97-98 imo. Jagr, 94pts, 80 overall... Jagr was more a 89. Two years later he became a 95+ though. Bure, 110pts, 90 overall. They gave him the same overall as Selanne, but Selanne deserved a 94 and Bure a 92 perhaps. Potvin, 79 overall. 2nd goalie of the WEST ALL-STAR Cheveldae, 69 overall. 3rd goalie of the WEST ALL-STAR. Both of them should have been above 85. Bourque, 82 pts, but gets a 99 overall. He played like a 90 at most. Housley, 97pts, but nope.. he's just a 84 like Chelios who had 73pts and also gets a 84. I am not going to go through all of them of course, but you get the point. Larry Murphy was a 74 overall with 85pts and +45. The dude was a Norris contender but got a 74. HAHAHAHA Those ratings were garbage except for a few. They knew they were garbage ratings, that's why in NHL 95, dudes like Craig Janney were 100. 🤣

That's why I know all of the players better than any other year, lol.

Yes same here. That game changed how i view hockey games forever, and why I became a Vancouver Canucks fan

​@@GR-bn3xjBure, Ronning and Courtnall was one of the best lines in that game. Speed speed speed

@Mr.Pp11 Yes! I live in the deep south and didn't know anything about hockey back then and didn't have a team. That game made me a hockey fan, and I became a Vancouver fan bc of that speed line. 30 years later, I'm still a Vancouver fan and watching them play tonight on TV, lol. I love hockey now, and it started with that game

If you believed NHL 94 (and Vince Vaughn) then Jeremy Roenick was the greatest player ever to lace up his skates.

Yea it was the complete opposite feeling from the years prior, I still can't stomach watching that blue line bouncer that went through Barrasso. For all the magic we witnessed to that point, dark clouds began to form over the whole franchise soon after. Luckily the Pens would stay in Pittsburgh, thanks in large to Mario who saved the team several times in his life.

@@mryoung0412 Jagr has to be mentioned here, his performances in games 6 and 7 in that first playoff round in 1999 against New Jersey literally saved the Penguins from relocation

I hate the Islanders to this day.

​@@MOTU_CTRlol

Good observation!

True

and he never got anywhere near that again.

@@doaftheloaf moot point

Can you imagine a rookie getting 100 points and 0 1st place votes for the Calder?

He fought pat verbeek that year and got a crimson mask for his choices

C'est bizarre, ça fait 2 fois que jte vois sur youtube cette semaine sur 2 sujets differents haha

Just didn't last long enough

Books says Gretzky. I hate that too. My wife always says he was never injured. And Lemieux was always. She doesn't know hockey.

@@dolphin082 exactly, that’s why he’s better , imagine if 66 was healthy 😱😱

no, that happened in the previous year's finals, when lemieux's penguins played hasek's blackhawks. no argument on teemu, though.

@@doaftheloafI totally understand the famdom of Hasek. He was so so great at his peak but the NHL was also in its 'dead puck era' in the late 90s and early 00s when Hasek was at his peak. Roy is the only goalie, and the only player overall, to win 3 Conn Smythe trophies, the best player of the playoffs. His game and stats went up in the playoffs when it was time to decide whose team was to be the ultimate winner. 4 Stanley Cups.

@@Zamppa86 i totally understand that argument. my argument is hasek’s peak was the greatest prolonged stretch of goaltending I’ve ever seen. he evoked fear in shooters like no other goalie I’ve ever seen. btw, I’m a habs fan. roy is about the only goalie in my lifetime whose aura was even close.

With the single greatest comeback in NHL history from Mario as a nice little cherry for the season.

@@doaftheloafit was Befour’s Hawks 😅

NHL 93 (called NHLPA HOCKEY 93) on SNES was about the same gameplay as NHL 94 on SNES. The models of the players and goalies were almost the same. 94 was a bit more refined. The models of the players and goalies in NHL 95 were new, and the gameplay was different. NHL 93 was the one where, for example, let's say you are the team scoring down, and you've got the puck on the left wing skating down on the right side of the screen along the boards to go around the net. Once behind the net you could break at the far post, and that triggered the goalie to glitch and get stuck on a post. If that didn't work right away, you could just do some dangling left and right directly behind the net until the goalie got stuck. It always worked. Then all you needed to do is get that puck in front of the net to shoot it in the empty net. LMAO You could do it from the other side also, but I don't remember if it worked when shooting up. Maybe. You couldn't do that glitch move in NHL 94 anymore, at least not in the SNES version. The goalies were trained to not get stuck. LMAO They fixed it. The game was more polished. Another difference was that NHL 94 was the first game with Anaheim and Florida. Both NHL 93 and 94 had that super cool feature during your game's intermission. If you didn't start your period right away and just wait and watch the scores of other games at the bottom of the screen, there was a thing that was popping on the score like an alert, then you had to click a button to watch the highlight. It showed you the computers playing each other and the highlight goals. That feature was pretty fun. The glitch goal in NHL 94 was a bit different and there was a couple ways to do it. One of the ways is, you start behind the net red line corner and skate like a half-moon (or wide wrap around) in front of the net to put yourself in the position to skate horizontally mostly & slightly diagonally to beat the goalie far post with a clean shot. Another way, for example, shooting up with a lefty. You skate up from the boards on the right to the left side in the middle / in front of the goalie to have the far (left) side open up for a clean easy goal once again horizontally and diagonally. This had more success to cut in that angle rather than doing a wider wrap around like the first way I mentioned. The wider you take that angle the easier it is for the goalie to recuperate the pixel you had gained on it. The third way is vertical and can be done in many angles. You skate up or down vertically in a slight diagonal way to bait the goalie on your backhand, for example a lefty skating up will have his blade open with the puck on his left side if he skates up and left but if he skates up and right the puck will go in front of him closer to his right side. So if you straight up skate up and right vertically from the center of the ice and angle your path by either dribbling or holding it on the backhand until you're close enough to pull it quickly on your forehand and shoot in the net like the Pavel Bure move you'll score almost every time with enough speed. The same principle can be done in reverse to score on the back hand, but the goalies are a lot tougher and they have a better saving % against the backhand. Sometimes they stretch the leg and the backhand hits the pad and you see the puck hit the pad then go up above the goalie's head only to fall back on the pad because at that point the goalie already controls it and will be able to pass it once the puck gets back down there. LMAO A fourth way similar to the first one would be to go around the net in a semi-close wrap around but not too wide or too close, more like a full-circling around the goalie type of thing to use the same principles, speed angle far post! That also can work but sometimes the goalie knocks you off if you're too close and he touches you. In NHL 93, the goalies were faster when you tried to circle them like that. In that regard, the NHL 94 goalies are a bit weaker on that particular move. There were lots of other creative ways to score goals with passes but I wouldn't consider those glitch goals like the forehand far post speed angle shot! There are other similarities and differences between NHL 93 and 94 of course. If you look for NHLPA HOCKEY 93 SNES and NHL 94 SNES on youtube you'll see what I'm saying. The other thing I remember that was 100% different is that the NHL 93 fights were not in NHL 94. As a kid, I felt like NHL 95 was weird, but don't get me wrong I still loved it like crazy. I just remember that it felt weird at first because none of the old moves worked. I realized after getting good that those moves could still be pulled but in a different way or timing. That's because the puck handling feels and looks more wobbly when you dangle left and right. How did that happen? Well, they increased the game speed, but didn't improve puck handling, so therefore they decreased then handling compared to 94. I remember the slapshots weren't looking powerful but they were slightly more effective in 95. In NHL 94, the slapshots felt powerful, they didn't look weak, but they weren't as effective. The passes in 95 were weird too, they felt a bit slow and weak once again maybe because of the skating speed. I think they did it that way because in 94, the passes were slick, it looked refined when they received the puck, however most of time they were slow to move with it like their acceleration. It was its charm in a sense, because that's when you could catch them with big body checks. That's another thing. The body checks were extremely weak in 95, they felt like butter unless it was a perfect hit. Those felt nice but they were rare. It got a lot more fun in 95 when I mastered the backhand goal with the same principles I was using in 94 but on reverse, hence backhand. It's weird that 94 had the best moves because it was slower. So they never were really able to put the right doze of speed to make it slick 94 but slightly faster. Anyhow, In 94 the body checks were perfect. In 93 the body checks were okay, but the players were too tough, they were rocks. What saved NHL 95 was the brand new CRAZY-COOL features like: (1st NHL game that you can) - save your season - create players - make trades, sign players, release them Those simple basic features began in NHL 95. I can still remember that a shit load of players were rated 100. Craig Janney was a 100 believe it or not. LMAO I also remember that all trades were accepted if the players you were trading were within 4 of overall, unless a team was to have to many goalies or things like that. So you could climb your way up to get nearly a team of full 100s. Start with a 76 overall player and trade it for a 80, then the 80 for a 84, then for a 88, for a 92, for a 96, for a 100. You could repeat that and get yourself a team of super-All-Stars. That worked also in NHL 96. They kept the 4 overall difference trade thing for another year at least and maybe more. I preferred 96 to 95 like I preferred 94 to 93, because 96 was like the 2.0 of 95 and 94 was like the 2.0 of 93. In 96 the skating, passing, and pass receiving is a lot smoothened compared to 95 with the wobbly puck handling. The passing is what made it better and the rate of successful body checks. In 95 most body checks didn't land, they were way too buttery, but when you landed a perfect body check it felt heavy. In 94 it felt just as heavy, and the damage felt bigger like the players were getting crunched with the perfect ratio for the fall. In 96 the body checks were landing more than 95 but they sometimes felt a bit light or buttery like the 95 ones, which resulted in the players feeling like buttery rocks. The slapshots between 95 and 96 is debatable. There is both good and bad things about them. I personally feel like both felt weak a bit, but since 96 had smoother skating and puck handling, creative slapshot goals were cooler in 96 whereas too much creativity in 95 with your slapshot made the player unable to shoot straight. So 96 was better in the slapshot accuracy department than 95.

1994 playoffs were even better.

I like the part where he scored 50 goals a year for 9 straight years, including his rookie year, and winning 4 Cups in a row, ending up with the highest goals per game average at .76. Oh wait, that would be Mike Bossy. So Fvk You

There's way too many teams now. League stinks. 80s and 90s nhl is where it's at.

Aboit same point avg than gretzky 2 best seasons

Even mcdavid can't do that

And wins the scoring title, the MVP vote of the media, the MVP vote of the NHLPA and the Masterton.

Bettman is the greatest commissioner in sports. No one caress about your enjoyment if you don't like hockey then don't support the NHL by watching and complaining about it.

@@v4v819 If im not a fan, then I can complain. NHL has been having problems for 2 decades attracting fans, so maybe Bettman isnt that good.

It's popularity is skyrocketing, it's only getting more popular, check the facts for yourself, big shot!

@@v4v819 Do you have a source for that? It seems to have peaked in the mid-90s and just plateaued since then.

Or Penguins vs Kings 66 vs 99

@@insaneiaqHow the NHL gods couldn't make it happen is beyond me. The NBA had their dream match in the 1991 finals when both MJs went head to head.

1/2 of the made it.

Nah. Keep it like that.

It's the best ever for so many reasons. Don't go around changing it

94 was better.

Oilers tied to record this year I believe

@@ragugod8267I beg to differ. The Penguins’ record is still intact as Edmonton was denied that chance.

Shit happens in OT 😅

Oh, poor you.

What Leetch did the following season was way more impressive. 34 points while playing incredible defense and winning the Conn Smythe Trophy with the pressure of a 54 year curse on his shoulders is insane. A performance that will never be duplicated.

With the shouting and the jerky head movements? It was like it was designed for ADHD 11 year olds.

As a Finn Mogilny slightly annoyed me by taking away from Selänne's epic rookie season just a bit by tying in goals that season. By the way without internet back then i always looked at the scores every morning from teletext in our tv (if you know what that is..) so you just saw the scores and scorers but no highlights. Luckily they did have that weekly nhl magazine program that showed highlighta for the week with some Selänne goals often too.

possibly it's because you look kinda simple minded.

@@stephenp.6395 I'm a Chemical Engineer and musician that travels all around North America to play in historic venues, but go off...

For leaf fans this is the worst season ever. Period!

Don't forget Rangers vs Devils which was the greatest playoff series of all time. And Leetch's historic performance in the playoffs. Plus the Devils vs Sabres and Canucks vs Flames classic 7 game series along with the Bruins vs Devils classic. 1994 playoffs were unmatched.

In CANADA.

That would absolutely been the icing on the cake for that season. The 2 greatest players ever going head to head for a championship. That would have been absolutely incredible.

God bless David Volek

You're assuming the Pens would've beaten the Canadiens that year. Mtl had Roy who was unstoppable.

@@rebeltvr6046 yes that is true. But that penguins team was an absolute juggernaut. They would have got Ron Francis back too. Plus the Canadiens didn't have Darius Kasparitis to antagonize Lemieux. I don't think it's that far fetched to think Pittsburgh would have beaten Montreal. I'm sure they would have been favored in that series.

@rebeltvr6046 I said "possibility," not certainty.

Just because he's a rookie? That's a pretty big "just because"

Selanne was 22 that season if I'm not mistaken? He had already played a few seasons professionally in Finland.

@jags6868 still never played in the NHL. That's not an easy jump. Lots of euro rookies play in Europe first.

As a Flyers fan he was terrifying during his Devils days. Hated playing against that guy's and wish we had him

Why are you as a hockey fan obsessed with how popular the sport is? I want the nhl to be under the radar. That was when it was at its best.

@johnalexander4690 because I'm a different person and wanted the sport to be more popular Lol

Legit, can he calm down?

I cant believe how bad this guy is.

Uh?

Yeah he ruibed everything. Ziegler and Stein did such a fabulous job. I have come to the conclusion that most fans are idiots.

Why?

@@willyupshaw Gretzky’s first season, Gordie Howe’s last season, WHA teams merged with their new style, plus they dropped the age for drafting from 20 to 18 so all these players, including Ray Bourque, entered the league 2 years before they normally would.

@@willyupshaw Gretzky’s rookie season for starters… I believe that was the year that the WHL got swallowed up by the NHL, the reason Gretzky was even in the NHL at that time.

@@Trigger200284 WHA, not WHL

@@willyupshawI’ll also add that in 1979 they dropped the draft minimum age from 20 to 18 so a whole bunch of players became eligible at the same time including Ray Bourque and Gretzky.

And for many reasons too!

1997-98

​@@focusednba2245 It was so good the owners had to lock them out the next year. They were like. Wait a minute....lol.

True

Yeah, it’s brutal

It's cartoonish more than whiney. Maybe if he starts smoking cigs he can deepen his voice. I'm not gonna turn it off over the voice, but just volume down a couple notches helps

He sounds like a cartoon dog or something. Like he's talking to children

At least it's not AI.