I don't know about anyone else, but before this game was over I felt friggin old. It was hard to watch my idols slowly fumble around the same surface the used to own!!... I was never a Gretzky fan as a kid as I loved the Flames, but thru the years I became a fan of the game, not just the fan of a team, and any fan of the game who grew up in the 80s can't help but love Gretzky. I wanted so badly for him to score a goal... a tip in, a deflection... anything... Sadly it didn't happen, But to hear just one more time, Kurri, to Gretzky, to Coffee, back to Gretzky... HE SCORES!!!... Would have probably brought me to tears. I love the game, but the boy in me has aged right along with the boys who made the game look so easy when I was a kid.
It's 2023, and the years have passed since this game. Many have gone since then, but the memories of the games remain in a lot of our memories of ages past. I grew up in Edmonton during the 80's and I actually loved watching them and loved Hockey back then. I lost touch with the NHL after Gretzky and Messier got traded, but recently I have tried to pick back up. No longer living in Alberta but Saskatchewan, now I have Bedard as a focal point to cheer for so I have a name. A name I can attach an attitude towards the game. It seems to me that after the Gretzky trade and the breakup of the great Oiler's Dynasty, the NHL just became un-trackable for me and I could no longer keep tabs on who was playing for who. I would love to just sit and have coffee with some of the players from the 80s oilers before I or they go. Would be amazing to just talk about life and not really about hockey. Just what the feeling of playing hockey in the 80s was and how it has changed to today. I bet it's a completely different feeling in the dressing rooms and on the ice compared to then. I mean the game has changed so so much since then.
Can you imagine hearing Waynes intro, how would you feel And now... The oilers captain, he rewrote the NHL record book over a legendary 20 year NHL career. His 2857 are a 1000 more than anyone else. He won 8 consecutive heart trophies with Edmonton. 4 time NHL champion. THE GREAT ONE, Number 99. Wayne Gretski. Guy is swimming in 😼 with that intro.
@@gkarjala lol hes one of those people that reads about it on wikipedia and then goes to reddit and goes to the sub r/todayilearned a man in his 60s was last guy to wear helmet. Lol made my self laugh on this one thats for sure. All true fans know it was macT. Also its cool seeing ken lowe chewing gum.
What's amazing to me is how good all these players still are. They're just a bit slow, but they all play really, really, really well. In some ways it's even better than watching a normal NHL game because it's easier to follow when the guys aren't so fast!
Still great to watch these guys play. Got to meet or know many of them, including Coffey, such an awesome person! Hawerchuck married a girl from Arborg Manitoba, where I'm from. The humility and modesty from all these players is amazing, and, generally is, from all hockey players. I really wish everyone could achieve this in their lives, and the respect I give to these colleagues, is truly immense, as a result of this! As mentioned in the beginning, it all came because of Ben Hatskin getting the legend, Bobby Hull to come to Winnipeg!Thank you, Bobby Hull, and, to all involved in this broadcast. Have a great year!
The Finnish flash was always one of the greatest wingers to ever play the game. I saw him once when he was in Anaheim, and had he had some support around him, being that PK was always sidelined with a concussion, he could have done so much more on those ducks teams, kinda like how the LAPD line on the Kings could have done so much more had all 3 of them actually played for more than 2 games without an injury.
Lets take it easy guys. Jets alumni is nothing compared to oilers alumni. Just listen. Also they throw in extra stuff for jets guys. If it was not bias it would look bad the skill of oilers is off the ricter.
Goals: 29:20 - Teemu Selanne 36:13 - Kris King 37:44 - Dale Hawerchuk 40:41 - Mark Messier 47:17 - Mike Eagles 1:07:08 - Craig Simpson 1:08:07 - Mark Messier 1:20:08 - Craig MacTavish 1:38:05 - Blair MacDonald 1:48:02 - Kris King 1:52:40 - Teemu Selanne
Didn't The Flash score like 2 goals + 2 assists for 4 points? Domination. And it almost looked like a 3rd assist with that one where the scorer got Teemu's pass but had to shoot twice after a very quick and short rebound (not too familiar with the rules but I'm guessing the fact that the shooter missed on his first try after the pass killed off what would have been an assist had he scored on his initial shooting attempt. )
@@BrucknerMotet that counts as an apple. Shot, rebound, and getting your own rebound doesn't remove the 2 assists before. Only a new person touching the puck would take out the second apple and replace it, or the other team "controlling" the puck resets everything.. So a shot, rebound off the goalie, or it deflecting off a player, and right on to the stick of the same team who controlled the puck prior to it bouncing off an opposing player/goalie doesn't count as "controlling" the puck?
I absolutely love this. I watched it live and here I am watching again years later. To watch some of my favorite players as a kid play again is better then Christmas morning. I’d like to see this sort of thing done more often.
Growing up I was a huge Dale Hawerchuk fan. I have never screamed more than when they announced his name at the start of this game. Plus there was a Selanne assist on a Hawerchuk goal, so that was pretty sweet.
The thing I remember most about Esa Tikkanen is that he was the rarest player to find in sticker packs for the 1988-1989 NHL Sticker Book. Me and all my buds had like 10 multiples of every player but not a single Tikkanen among the lot of us. I heard legend of a kid across town who got one but we regarded that as myth.
Damn 2020 and I watched all the introductions. I knew about 80% of them which is good considering I was born in 83. Shout out to Bill Ranford one of my fave goalies from childhood.
This was a real treat to watch, me and my family grabbed dinner and watched the whole thing man, brings back memories of the great one and #9 maurice richard! wow thanks guys legends no doubt NHL
I love Eddie O. One of my favorite hockey play by play guys. Awesome seeing some of these guys who are now coaches, analysts and upper management of their countries hockey programs. So cool
@48:29 Ducky over at the Oiler bench cracking up The Great One and Dave Semenko cracking jokes back at Dale not knowing their time on Earth was coming to an end. Nice to see them having laughs. Both Dale and Dave are gone now. Their smiles almost made me cry.
As a Blackhawks fan, I'm happy as hell to see Edmonton getting back to its roots. I'll be pushing for McDavid and company this season aside from Chicago. Edmonton is a fun team to watch, and this alumni game was awesome
Thank you for uploading this. I know that it's almost 3.5 years later, but I was so disappointed when I missed watching this live on tv. Now, February 12th, 2020, it shows up randomly among the various videos on the right hand side of youtube (desktop PC), and I had to check it out. Totally awesome. I wish that the NHL had a "Legends League". I love seeing the 80's and 90's players that I grew up with. Seeing Selanne in a Jets jersey again is priceless. Loving the proper V-neck jerseys. I hate the modern jersey collars with the integrated NHL logo. Yuck!
Selanne is an absolute legend. I watched him live potting goal # 76. He was the real deal. It’s even tougher to shine in the NHL when you’re the only all-star in the dressing room. Think about the dynasty teams in Montreal, Edmonton, Pittsburgh and Detroit ... Selanne was a one-man wrecking crew playing with beer-league teammates. He’s a Top-10 forward of all-time. A true legend.
First hockey game I ever went to was Edmonton at Winnipeg in 1975, WHA. My two NHL teams were Montreal and Vancouver. They're still the 4 teams I cheer for to this day.
Went to school in Edmonton with Wayne and Dave Babych back in the sixtys...Again meet Dave in North Vancouver one rainy night at Safeway reminisced about our life in Edmonton ...I have been proud to know them both from my home town...
Brings back awful memories for all fans of teams other than those Oilers clubs: The 4-on-4 after coincidental minors when Edmonton would put out two units of guys like Gretzky, Kurri, Coffey, Anderson, Messier, Linseman and Lowe. No team in the World could compete against that 4-on-4 talent in the early-mid 80s ... except maybe Krutov, Makarov, Larionov, Fetisov, Bykov and Kasatonov on the Soviet National teams.
Ryan Smith looks a lot like Gretzky did 20 years ago. Meaning his posture and how he skates.. Selanne and Smith are a bit too young for this. :-) They could have skated rings around the older guys. Mess is in good shape though.
This made my day. I was unable to watch this game much as I could not get a good signal. Thank you so much for posting this Serg. I REALLY appreciate you sharing this. Feel free to put today's game on here too, although it kinda stunk so not near as exciting. But thank you.
It's always great to see the "Young Breed" do their stuff in the rink once again. I bet fast-forward 2 decades from now, my 2018 L.A. Kings will face off against the Ducks or the Sharks of yesteryears
this is the cool and cute l game to whatch wen ice hokey legend s dads and grandpas off winnipeg jets and Edmonton Oilers or playing againts each other =)
You know some of those guys would really love like to crank it up a notch. I know that no matter how old I was, I would be competitive and still want to win!
I mean they are old and a bit rusty, but you can see their class and sometimes even glimpses of what made them legends when they were younger...just awsome !!
So cool. Some of these guys wouldn't miss a beat if they got added to the NHL active rosters. Ryan Smith is definitely still capable. Teamu Salanne still in great shape.
I remember the smythe division. The problem was that it included the Oilers, number one in the league, the Flames who were number two in the league and the Jets who were number four. It was as if the Stanley cup finals were played out in the first round in the smythe division. Probably one of the reasons we have the playoff format that we do today. You can imagine what the other teams were thinking when facing a road trip through western Canada. "Oh crap! There goes six points in the standings!"
