Brent's Hockey Game Videos

• The original "Miracle On Ice"
• The Blyth Arena was rocking when the underdog U.S. hockey team upset both the Russians and Canadians to win their 1st ever Gold medal
• Led by forwards Billy Cleary and Roger Christian (whose son Dave went on to NHL fame) and goaltender Jack McCartan, the Americans beat Canada 2-1, USSR 3-2, and the Czechs 9-4, in their last three games to clinch the Gold
• Also includes bonus footage of the February 28, 1960 Gold Medal game against Czechoslovakia

• "Rocket" Maurice Richard's Final NHL Game

• Maple Leafs win 4-2
• Goalies: Terry Sawchuk (Red Wings) and Johnny Bower (Maple Leafs)

• A spectacular performance by 38 year old Johnny Bower; holding the Wings to 2 goals for the second straight game, helping the Leafs to a 4-2 victory and a 2-0 lead in the best of seven series
• Contains excellent Intermission activities and Post Game coverage

• Leafs win 3-1
• Goalies: Terry Sawchuk (Red Wings) and Johnny Bower (Maple Leafs)

• Detroit wins 4-3 in Overtime
• Goalies: Terry Sawchuk (Red Wings) and Johnny Bower (Maple Leafs)

• Leafs win 4-2
• Goalies: Johnny Bower (Maple Leafs) and Terry Sawchuk (Red Wings)

• The infamous Bobby Baun broken leg Overtime Goal game
• Legends such as Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, Frank Mahovlich and Johnny Bower in this game
• Rebroadcast from original game, so game quality is Immaculate
• Sawchuk VS Ron Stewart (For those who don't know the significance Stewart had with Sawchuk, he was invloved in an altercation with Sawchuk in 1970 which ultimately resulted in Sawchuk's death)
• Post-Game reply of the OT goal, followed by an interview with Bobby Baun. Stan Mikita sits along and adds a few comments as well

• A wild game from storied Maple Leaf Gardens as the Leafs defeat the Rangers 8-4 behind two hat-tricks; one from Dave Keon, the first of his career during regular season, and the second coming from Bob Pulford, who capped off the hat trick in the third period. Leafs exploded for 4 goals in the 3rd period for the victory
• A rookie Ed Giacomin tends goal for the Rangers against a seasoned Johnny Bower for the Leafs
• Brit Selby co-hosts the re-broadcast and gives much recollection of the game and season. Selby went on to win the Calder Trophy as league's Rookie Of The Year in 1965-66, the last Maple Leaf to do so

• Terry Sawchuk records his 100th career shutout in a 3-0 win over Chicago

• Terry Sawchuk backstops the Leafs to a 4-2 win over the Hawks, giving the Leafs a 3-2 lead in the Series
• Johnny Bower starts the game for the Leafs but after the 1st period ends tied 2-2, the Leafs opt to have Sawchuk start the 2nd. Within the first minute or so of the period, Hawks' Bobby Hull (with his wickedly-curved stick aside from his powerful shot) blasts a shot from in close off of Sawchuk's already badly injured shoulder. This provided Sawchuk and the Leafs the wake-up call they needed as they went on to score 2 more goals en route to the win. Sawchuk was a wall against the powerful Hawks who boasted scorers such as Stan Mikita and Phil Esposito in addition to Hull
• The Leafs would go on to win Game 6, before meeting and beating the Canadiens in the Cup Finals (see below)

• Leafs win 3-1
• Goalies: Glenn Hall (Blackhawks) and Terry Sawchuk (Maple Leafs)

• Terry Sawchuk and the Toronto Maple Leafs both win their last Stanley Cups

• A sophomore Bobby Orr tears it up against the defending champ Maple Leafs
• The game itself, which is joined in progress 15 mins into the 1st period, includes ads, intermission interviews and period highlight analysis
• Announce team of Foster Hewitt and Brian McFarlane
• Goaltending battle between the aging veteran "China Wall" Johnny Bower VS sophomore Gerry Cheevers

• Toronto defeats Buffalo, 2-0
• Game features Eddie Shack as a Sabre in addition to to-be Rookie Of The Year Gilbert Perreault
• Goalies: Joe Daley (Sabres) and Jacques Plante (Maple Leafs)

• Includes two 30 minute Sabre documentaries from their inaugral 1970-71 season, "Sabres Ready" and "Touche"

• Game played at the Winnipeg Arena; played to a 4-4 tie
• Crowd was strangely reserved -- "dead" in coach Harry Sinden's opinion
• In this, Bobby Hull country, Hull had been refused on Team Canada because he'd jumped to the World Hockey Association Winnipeg Jets. Hull sat in the stands signing autographs
• Tony Esposito and Vladislav Tretiak were between the pipes

• Game played in Moscow, Russia
• ...Phil Esposito poked the puck towards Russian goalie Vladislav Tretiak for an easy save, but by this time a fallen Paul Henderson had gotten back on his feet and gained the rebound. Henderson shovelled the puck towards the goal line, but Tretiak made yet another save, but left another rebound. Henderson, unchecked by any Soviet player, was able to flip the final rebound over a sprawled out Tretiak. "Henderson has scored for Canada."
• The country erupted as did the Team Canada bench. Henderson jumped into Cournoyer's arms just long enough for Denis Brodeur (Martin's father) to snap the most famous photograph in hockey history. Shortly afterwards the duo was mobbed by the entire Canadian roster who vacated their bench
• Canada needed to compose themselves for a final 34 seconds, as the Soviets were more than capable of tying up the game in such a short time frame. Canada sent out a line of Esposito with Pete Mahovlich and Ron Ellis and shut them down for 34 seconds that must have felt like 34 minutes for Team Canada
• When the final buzzer sounded, 3000 Canadian fans burst into the sweetest rendition of "O Canada" ever heard, as the players embraced on the ice. Some openly wept, something rarely seen among NHL professionals, even after capturing the Stanley Cup
• Digital Remaster of original broadcast, complete as initially shown
  Click The Henderson/Cournoyer Celebration To Hear The Historic Goal

• This friendly game against the Czechoslovakian National Team came just 24 hours after the dramatic Canadian victory in Game 8 in Moscow. When they originally scheduled the match, the Canadian organizers were probably figuring that Team Canada would have just dusted off the Soviets with ease and would celebrate by handily defeating the Czechoslovakians. Nothing worked to plan - not even the results of the game in Prague as although Canada went ahead 2-0 after the first period, the Czechs tied it up in the second and the game ended 3-3
• Following the game, the players were eager to get on their plane and get back to Canada as soon as possible. However there was also a sombre feeling, as it finally sunk in that this team that had grown so close would never be together again. The dressing room was surprisingly quiet as players put away their gear. Out of the silence a player, believed to be - who else? - Phil Esposito began humming Bob Hope's theme song "Thanks For The Memories." Soon the whole team was boisterously singing

• Kings win 4-1
• No sound; Recorded on Black & White 8 MM Camera snuck into Arena (Footage slows game action)
• Goalies: Gilles Gilbert (Bruins) and Rogie Vachon (Kings)

• Bruins' Bobby Orr ejection in last minute of game for rushing referee Wally Harris after being tripped by Bill White coming across blueline, causes near riot by fans throwing garbage on ice
• After bottles being thrown, teams leave ice area and later return to finish the game
• Pit Martin and Darcy Rota score for Chicago while Greg Shepppard scores for Boston, Hawks edge the Bruins 2-1
• Goalies: Tony Esposito (Blackhawks) and Gilles Gilbert (Bruins)

• The Summit Series consisted of 8 games, the first 4 played in Canada (Quebec City, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver) while the rest were played in Moscow, USSR. Team Canada was made up exclusively of World Hockey Association players, a way of getting back at the NHL who went into the '72 Summit Series without any WHA players
• The Canadian roster boasted such players as Andre Lacroix, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Gerry Cheevers, Paul Henderson (not a bad choice considering '72), and Frank Mahovlich while Team USSR were stacked with the usual talent which included sniper Valery Kharlamov and goaltending legend Vladislav Tretiak
• In this game, goaltender Don "Smokey" McLeod of the Houston Aeros stepped between the pipes for Canada (turned out to be his only appearance against USSR in the tournament as Cheevers played the rest). McLeod is lit up for 8 goals in an 8-5 loss
• The Russians took the series with a record of 4 Wins, 1 Loss and 3 Ties

• The Montreal Canadiens battle the Central Red Army to a 3-3 tie despite outshooting the Soviets 38-13. The hero of the night was goaltending great Vladislav Tretiak. Without Tretiak in net, the rest of the league was no match for the mighty Canadiens. They went on to win the first of four straight Stanley Cups that season
• "They were completely outclassed from start to finish except on the scoreboard and in the nets." - Montreal coach Scotty Bowman
• Said to be one of the finest hockey games ever
• Intermission Interview with Vladislav Tretiak

• The Soviets win 5-2
• Goalies: Vladislav Tretiak (Red Army) and Gilles Gilbert (Bruins)

• Flyers play nasty and the Soviets leave the ice in protest
• Flyers win 4-1

• Team Canada, lead by Bobby Orr, Bobby Hull, Guy Lafleur and others dominate
• Canada wins 3-1 to go on to face Czechoslovakia in the Finals
• Goalies: Rogie Vachon (Canada) and Vladislav Tretiak (USSR)

• With memories of Czech goaltender Vladimir Dzurilla (boyhood idol of Dominik Hasek) stoning them in the Round Robin, the Canadians came out strong in Game 1 of the Best of Three Final. They scored 4 goals in the 1st period en route to a 6-0 win
• Dzurilla rebounded in Game 2, keeping Czechoslovakia in the game and forcing Canada into Overtime tied at 4 goals apiece. But the relatively unknown goaltender was beaten at 11:33 of the 1st Overtime period, Canadian Darryl Sittler broke in off the Left Wing and - following the advice of assistant coach Don Cherry - faked a booming slap shot causing Dzurilla to fall to his knees. Once the star goalie was down, Sittler skated by and popped the puck into the wide open net. Canada won the game 5-4 to capture the 1st ever Canada Cup
• With 2 Goals and 7 Assists, Canada's Bobby Orr was named Tournament MVP
  Click The Sittler Dancing Around Dzurilla To Hear His Winning Goal

• Nordiques blow out Hull, Hedberg, Nilsson and the Jets 8-2 to win the Avco Cup
• Nords' Serge Bernier earned playoff MVP honours
• The Jets slipped in the standings slightly in 1976-77, finishing second behind Houston, but again made the finals, defeating San Diego and Houston before falling to Quebec in the Finals. Ironically Quebec was the same team that had bombed the Jets earlier in the season 12-3 after the Jets returned from Europe. Winnipeg spent some time at the Moscow Izvestia Cup Tournament in December 1976 as a reward for winning the Avco Cup in 1975-76
• In the playoffs, the Nordiques would need just 5 games to sink the New England Whalers and 5 more to knock the Indianapolis Racers off the track on the way to their 2nd Finals appearance in 3 years

• The line of Wayne Gretzky, Mike Gartner and Rick Vaive run supreme
• Gretzky wore #9 for the tournament

• Wayne Gretzky and company take on and a potent Soviet squad consisting of Sergei Makarov, Igor Larionov and Slava Fetisov as most notables
• The USSR ended up winning Gold while Canada took the Silver

• The powerful Soviets take on the best the WHA has to offer in Tokyo, Japan
• Missing 1st 5 minutes of the game, 1st 8 minutes of 2nd Period and 2nd Intermission

• Tape also includes...
  • January 3, 1977 - USSR VS Winnipeg Jets - 3rd Period Only

• Kladno defeats the Leafs, 8-5
• Peter Stastny and Darryl Sittler each record 2 Goals for their respective clubs
• Leafs play without Mike Palmateer, Borje Salming, Lanny McDonald and Ian Turnbull
• NHL's first ever exhibition game VS an Eastern European team
• Goalies: Miroslav Trassa, replaced by Kolisek (Kladno) and Gord McRae (Maple Leafs)

• Rangers defeat the Canadiens, 6-3
• Hardy Astrom, called up from New Haven with a 12-2 record, plays in his 1st NHL game
• The powerful Canadiens went into the game boasting a 28 game unbeaten streak (snapped by Astrom)
• Ranger Rookie Ron Duguay with a crewcut
• Goalies: Hardy Astrom (Rangers) and Ken Dryden (Canadiens)

• All 3 Howes suit up for Houston (Mark, Marty and Gordie)

• The Islanders are eliminated by Toronto, 4-3, on Lanny MacDonald's Overtime goal
• This season featured the Islanders adding Calder Trophy winning Mike Bossy to their arsenal; who would assist the Islanders in 4 straight Cups to come from 1980 through 1983

• Both teams who were tied for second overall in the WHA, battle it out
• Gordie Howe out of the lineup with an ankle injury
• Originates from aged master, vertical hold not the greatest but watchable

• Guy Lafleur and Mike Bossy each have 2 point games, as the NHL All Stars win the 1st game of the Series 4-2
• Vladislav Tretiak tends goal for the Soviets while Ken Dryden guards the cage for the All Stars

• Soviets outshoot the NHL All Stars 31-16, and outscore them 5-4 in the process
• Again, Vladislav Tretiak tends goal for the Soviets while Ken Dryden guards the cage for the All Stars

• The Soviets blow away the NHL All Stars 6-0 in the finale of the Challenge Cup
• One reporter refused to call it a game, instead referring to it as a clinic put on by the Soviet players. They were better in every aspect of the game - skating, stickhandling, shooting, goaltending, you name it
• The Soviets pulled off a huge surprise at the beginning of the game by benching their living legend Vladislav Tretiak in favor of lesser capable Vladimir Myshkin in the nets. It was clever ploy by coach Viktor Tikhonov, who figured the team would feel the pressure to play their most perfect game if they had the inexperienced Myshkin behind them instead of Tretiak
• The NHL also made a goaltending change, bringing in Gerry Cheevers to replace Ken Dryden. Cheevers, who allowed 6 goals on 19 shots, admittedly played "terrible," though it made no difference since the NHL All Stars couldn't get a single puck past Myshkin

• Flyers goaltending great Bernie Parent suffers a career-ending eye injury in game; Parent's last NHL game

• Retrospect on the Leafs' season:
  The Maple Leafs return to the playoffs by finishing with a 34-33-12 record, finishing in 3rd place within the Adams Division. Near the end of the season, Leafs owner Harold Ballard suddenly decided to fire Coach Roger Neilson. However Neilson would be hired back before the next game as the Leafs could not find a replacement. Ballard in rehiring his coach even asked Neilson to wear a paper bag on his head, which he refused. In the playoffs, the Leafs would extinguish the Atlanta Flames outscoring them 9-5 in a 2-game sweep. However, in the 2nd round, the Leafs would be swept for the 2nd straight year by the Stanley Cup bound Montreal Canadiens. Following the season Ballard would fire Neilson again this time permanently
• Canadiens' Larry Robinson plays the OT hero, eliminating the Leafs from post-season play

• The two best teams in hockey met in Montreal with the winner advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals. Boston led 3-1 entering the third period, but the Habs scored twice to even the score. The Bruins' Rick Middleton silenced the crowd by scoring with four minutes left. It seemed that Bruins finally were going to get past their arch rivals but with time running out, Don Cherry's Bruins were caught with too many men on the ice. Guy Lafleur took advantage of the power play to send the game into OT, which Montreal won at 9:33 on Yvon Lambert's goal. Don Cherry was fired in the off-season

• The Winnipeg Jets win the last Avco Cup championship defeating a young rookie named Wayne Gretzky and his Edmonton Oilers
  Click The Jets Celebration For Highlights Of The Game

• The Montreal Canadiens finish off their Decade of Decadence with their 6th Cup in the 70's
• Ken Dryden's Last NHL Game
• Bob Gainey captures the Conn Smythe Trophy as Playoff MVP
• Goalies: John Davidson (Rangers) and Ken Dryden (Canadiens)

• First NHL game for Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Kevin Lowe, and the Edmonton Oilers franchise
• Kevin Lowe scores the Oilers' first ever NHL Goal while Wayne Gretzky of all people registers their first penalty
• In the end, Chicago defeats Edmonton, 4-2
• Goalies: Dave Dryden (Oilers) and Tony Esposito (Blackhawks)

• Truly a game of Firsts...
• First Ever NHL Home Game for the Oilers
• NHL rookies Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier get in on the scoring. Gretzky assisted on the Oilers' first goal while Messier scored the game-tying goal (His First NHL Goal) in a 3-3 Final
• Red Wings' Mike Foligno also scores his first NHL goal on Ed Mio (Yes, Foligno takes his infamous leap) - Mio in his first NHL game

• NHL Rookies Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier very early into their 1st NHL seasons
• Goalies: Ed Mio (Oilers) and Jim Rutherford, replaced by Rogie Vachon (Red Wings)

• Islanders double-up the Rangers, 10-5
• Goalies: Doug Soetaert (Rangers) and Billy Smith (Islanders)

• The Flames defeat the Wings, 4-1
• Goalies: Rogie Vachon (Red Wings) and Dan Bouchard (Flames)

• One of the last of 18 games Bobby Hull would play for the Jets in their 1st NHL season, Hull would later be traded to Hartford where he played 9 games alongside Gordie Howe before they both called it a career
• One of the last ever games played at the Olympia, actual final game was played a mere 10 days later VS Quebec

• Don Cherry during his coaching days with the Rockies
• Maple Leafs defeat the Rockies, 5-3
• Goalies: Hardy Astrom (Rockies) and Paul Harrison (Maple Leafs)

• Flyers' Game 29 of their NHL record 35 Game unbeaten streak
• A rookie Ray Bourque in action

• Red Wings edge the Whalers, 2-1
• Gordie and Mark Howe skate for the Whalers
• Goalies: Rogie Vachon (Red Wings) and John Garrett (Whalers)

• Red Army defeat the Nordiques, 6-4
• Goalies: Vladislav Tretiak (Red Army) and Michel Dion (Nordiques)

• Wayne Gretzky's First and Gordie Howe's Last NHL All-Star Game

• Two of the best All-Time Greats Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe play together in one of their last NHL games
• Goalies: John Garrett (Whalers) and Jiri Crha (Leafs)

• Soviets beat up on the EHL's Blades, 9-0
• Vladimir Myshkin (USSR) and Normand LaPointe, replaced by Mark Evans (Blades)

• The Soviets defeat Canada, 6-4
• Canadian Notables Included: Glenn Anderson, Paul MacLean, Randy Gregg (Captain) and Tim Watters
• Goalies: Paul Pageau (Canada) and Vladislav Tretiak (USSR)

• Until the U.S. Olympic hockey team was seen as a serious contender for Gold, ABC aired live U.S. hockey in between jumping around to other events
• This 2 hour DVD captures that aired hockey coverage from 3 games:
  • February 12, 1980 - USA VS Sweden
    • Aproximately 5 minutes worth of game highlights etc.
    • Game ends in a 2-2 tie
  • February 14, 1980 - USA VS Czechoslovakia
    • Coverage starts at about the 3 minute mark of the second with the score tied at 2. The Americans really came out to play in the second period, playing great on both ends, creating chances and forechecking well while keeping the Czech offense from getting a good shot on Craig. The Americans did an amazing job of shutting down a Czech power play, not even giving them much chance to get set up. Kralik let in a few iffy goals including a five hole one he went to stack the pads for when he should have just stopped it with the stick. The third period is rough for international hockey with a lot of pushing and shoving and a cheap hit on Mark Johnson away from the play. During the stoppage after the hit you clearly hear Herb Brooks say "We're gonna shove that stick down your throat" and "You're gonna eat the goddamn Koho". Jim Craig plays very well in the second and third, only letting a cross ice passing play get a goal on him whereas Jiri Kralik lets in a few he should have. A big upset by the Americans
    • USA wins 7-3
  • February 16, 1980 - USA VS Norway (coverage cuts off)
    • Coverage starts at the start of the second with Norway leading 1-0. Within the first minute, Mike Eruzione scores on a power play to tie. From then on it was all USA dominating. The action wasn't too exciting and not a whole lot of hitting but a new fight between Bob Suter and Myhre of Norway. Martinsen lets up a very weak Ken Morrow goal that seems to be shot from the point at 5 mph
    • USA wins 5-1

• Until the U.S. Olympic hockey team was seen as a serious contender for Gold, ABC aired live U.S. hockey in between jumping around to other events
• This 2 hour DVD captures that aired hockey coverage from 3 games:
  • February 18, 1980 - USA VS Romania
    • Coverage is really spotty on this game, ABC cut in and out throughout every period, show only about five minutes of each. From what you see, it just looks like a complete domination by the US over a weak Romania defense
    • Interesting Note: Although the movie "Miracle" leads you to believe otherwise, Jack O'Callahan plays in this game
    • USA wins 7-2
  • February 20, 1980 - USA VS West Germany
    • Coverage is spotty again, mostly showing the 3rd period. The Americans had clinched the medal round but needed to win by 7 to play Finland on Friday and then the Soviets on Sunday. The West Germans ended the first with a 2-0 lead after Jim Craig was off his game from a shot to the face in the warmups. US battles back to a 4-2 lead but spends the last 5 minutes mostly on the penalty kill, warding off the blitzkrieg from Germany (worst joke ever). The last minutes were very tense with lots of pushing and shoving and elbows and high sticks. USA gets a power play to finish the game off and move on to face the USSR
    • USA wins 4-2
  • February 22, 1980 - USA VS USSR (coverage cuts off)
    • The Infamous "Miracle On Ice" game
    • See below for full ESPN Classics version of the game

• The Soviets defeat Canada, 6-4
• Canadian Notables Included: Glenn Anderson, Paul MacLean, Randy Gregg (Captain) and Tim Watters
• Goalies: Paul Pageau (Canada) and Vladislav Tretiak (USSR)

• Best known as the "Miracle On Ice" game
• The United States was the seventh seed in the 12-team tournament and had lost to the Soviet team, recognized as the best hockey team in the world, 10-3, in an exhibition match at Madison Square Garden just 13 days before
• Nevertheless, the Americans reached the medal round with a 4-0-1 record. Playing in front of a boisterous home crowd at the peak of the cold war, the United States fell behind early in the game, but Mark Johnson scored a goal to tie the game, 2-2, just before the end of the first period
• Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov pulled his legendary goalie, Vladislav Tretiak, for the younger, less-experienced Vladimir Myshkin. It seemed to work, as the Soviets took a 3-2 lead into the third period. But Johnson scored again in the third to tie the game
• Team captain Mike Eruzione scored the game-winning goal with a wrist shot later in the third period, and goalie Jim Craig stood on his head, making 39 saves as the team held on to beat the unbeatable, 4-3
  Click The U.S.A. Team Celebration To Hear A Report Summary On The Game

• Just two days after the emotional victory, USA scores three 3rd period Goals to beat Finland 4-2 for the Gold Medal
• As Captain of the team, Mike Eruzione accepts the Gold in the medal ceremony, but after the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," he breaks tradition by inviting his entire team to join him on the podium in celebrating before an enthusiastic audience

• The powerful Soviets capture the Bronze - truly a disappointment felt by all involved
• Final score: USSR 9, Sweden 2

• Whalers' Gordie Howe records an Assist while teammate Bobby Hull registers a Goal and an Assist
• Game ends in a 4-4 tie
• First period has no sound; Missing 3rd period
• Goalies: Al Smith (Whalers) and Rogie Vachon (Red Wings)

• NHL Rookies Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky lookin' great
• Oilers Stan Weir rewarded a penalty shot when Leafs legend Borje Salming covers the puck in the crease; Weir scores on Mike Palmateer
• WKRP In Cincinnati's "Les Nessman" (Richard Sanders) shown in the crowd, mentioned to be an Oilers supporter
• Gretzky finished the game with 6 points (playing a part in all but 2 Edmonton goals, 1 being the penalty shot), putting him 1 up on Marcel Dionne as league scoring leader for the time being. Gretzky just failed to get his 50th goal of the season at the end of the game, after collecting his 48th and 49th earlier in the evening
• 99 VS 99 (Oilers Gretzky VS Leafs Wilf Paiement) - for a short while Paiement wore #99 too... Gretzky was awarded 1st star (without question) while Paiement himself received 3rd star honours
• Goalies: Ron Low (Oilers) and Mike Palmateer (Leafs)

• Gordie Howe's Last NHL Game - scores a goal in a 5-3 win
• Missing first 11 minutes of game
• Goalies: Rogie Vachon (Red Wings) and Al Smith (Whalers)

• Just months prior to the Oilers upsetting the Canadiens in the playoffs, the Oilers give Montreal a bit of foreshadowing with a 9-1 schlacking
• Wayne Gretzky registers 5 points while teammate Jari Kurri scores a Hat Trick
• Goalies: Richard Sevigny, in for all 9 Goals (Canadiens) and Ed Mio (Oilers)

• Jets shut out the Leafs, 2-0
• Goalies: Markus Mattsson (Jets) and Jiri Crha (Maple Leafs)

• The overpowering Oilers pound the weakling Winnipeg Jets 10-4
• This was just part of the Jets season where they set an NHL record for 30 straight games without a win (October 19 to December 20)
• 99 VS 99 (Oilers Gretzky VS Jets Rick Dudley) - for a short while Dudley wore #99 too (see above for Wilf Paiement)...
• Wayne Gretzky awarded a penalty shot when he's dragged down on a breakaway but Jets defenceman Dave Babych. Jets goalie Pierre Hamel, although deked out, comes up with the save on the penalty shot; the first ever in Edmonton
• Wayne Gretzky scores 2 goals within 14 seconds, fastest 2 goals by an Oiler
• Oilers scored 6 unanswered goals, 5 of them in the 3rd period
• Wayne Gretzky took over the scoring lead once again on Kings' Marcel Dionne, Gretzky attaining both 30 goals and 100 points on the season
• Goalies: Pierre Hamel (Jets) and Ed Mio (Oilers)
  • Markus Mattsson was scheduled to start in goal for the Jets but was injured in warmup

• Backed by the solid goaltending of rookie Andy Moog, the Oilers romped to a shocking 6-3 win over the Habs
• Gretzky recorded a 5 assist night, and Montreal went from being overconfident to being in a state of shock

• The Oilers followed game one with another stunning victory, winning the second game 3-1
• The home-bound Oilers believed the series could be swept...

• Wayne Gretzky racks up 5 assists en route to an upset elimination of the mighty Montreal Canadiens

• "The Oilers come out out hungry starting that one boosted by their convincing win in Game #3 and an enthusiastic crowd. They take a 2-0 early lead, including a power play goal. Isles coach Al Arbour made a strange decision to go with rookie Roland Melanson in goal, who seemed shaky on occasion. However, the Isles still mount a comeback as a power play goal sparks their return. Oilers' goalie Andy Moog is not playing his best hockey either. In fact, the Isles take the lead twice, with the Oilers coming back each time. Mark Messier misses an incredible opportunity on a breakaway with 7 minutes to play, but Melanson makes the stop. In what's most likely the best game of the series, it offers good skating, scoring chances, and wide open play, particulary in the 3rd period and OT, with a good number of goals. Surely this was the key win of the series for the Isles, even if the Oilers rebounded to win the next one"
• Islanders win in Overtime, 5-4
• Goalies: Rollie Melanson (Islander) and Andy Moog (Oilers)

• Canada blows out the Finns, 9-0
• Gilbert Perreault records 4 Assists, Guy Lafleur collects 3 Assists, Brian Trottier scores 1 Goal and 3 Assists and Mike Bossy pots 2 Goals
• Goalies: Markus Mattsson (Finland) and Mike Liut (Canada)

• Game ends in a 4-4 tie
• Notable players include:
  • Canada: Raymond Bourque, Mike Bossy, Marcel Dionne, Wayne Gretzky, Guy Lafleur, Gilbert Perreault, Denis Potvin and Larry Robinson
  • Czechoslovakia: Miloslav Horava and Jaroslav Pouzar
• Goalies: Mike Liut (Canada) and Karel Lang (Czechoslovakia)
• NOTE: Recording is of the original CTV broadcast, complete with commercials, not the 2005 TSN re-broadcast

• USSR defeats USA, 4-1
• Goalies: Tony Esposito (USA) and Vladislav Tretiak (USSR)

• A Canadian squad boasting Wayne Gretzky, Guy Lafleur and Raymond Bourque edges the Swedish squad boasting Anders Hedberg, Kent Nilsson, and Borje Salming 4-3

• A Canadian squad boasting Wayne Gretzky, Guy Lafleur and Raymond Bourque handed the all-might Soviet squad boasting Slava Fetisov, Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov their worst lost in years, 7-3
• This was the only game of the tournament where the USSR played backup goaltender Vladimir Myshkin - he played the entire 60 minutes
• It was later speculated that Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov was playing possum with the Canadians in the loss, hiding what his team was truly capable of

• A Canadian squad boasting Wayne Gretzky, Guy Lafleur and Raymond Bourque eliminated the Nation who brought us the "Miracle On Ice" just 1 year prior, 4-1
• The Americans boasted respectable talent in the form of Rod Langway, Mark Howe, Tony Esposito and Miracle On Ice team members Neal Broten and Dave Christian - in addition to the late "Badger" Bob Johnson behind the bench
• The USSR disposed of Czechoslovakia by the same 4-1 score in the other Semi-Final, setting up a Canada VS USSR Final

• With the Canada Cup on the line, the Soviets rose up, unleashed their big guns and outskated, outscored and humiliated Team Canada's NHL stars 8-1

• Dale Hawerchuk, early into his Rookie of the Year campaign, plays in his hometown

• The Penguins light up the Flyers, 7-2
• Flyers' Pelle Lindbergh plays in his 2nd NHL game
• Goalies: Pelle Lindbergh (Flyers) and Michel Dion (Penguins)

• En route to Canada winning its 1st ever World Junior Hockey Gold medal, Canada handed the Soviets their worst-ever defeat, a 7-0 shellacking, before tying the Czechs to wrap things up
• The Canadian team outscored its opponents 45-14 while compiling a 6-0-1 record to claim top spot in the round-robin tournament. It was Canada's first attempt at putting together a true, national, junior team and its success paved the way for future golden efforts
• The Canadian roster, filled with future NHL'ers, included Troy Murray, Garth Butcher and James Patrick to name a few

• Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals in a game, last one into an empty net, to reach 50 Goals in 39 games
• Oilers win 7-5
• Goalies: Pete Peeters (Flyers) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• Wales beat the Campbells 4-2
• Set record for fewest shots in a period between both teams - 3rd period saw a total of 13 shots
• Mike Bossy scores 2 Goals and takes home MVP honours

• Bruins defeat the Red Wings, 7-5
• Goalies: Marco Baron (Bruins) and Gilles Gilbert (Red Wings)
• NOTE: Ticking audio

• Wayne Gretzky breaks Phil Esposito's record for most goals in a season (76), scoring four goals in a 6-3 Oilers win
• Broadcast joined in progress (due to technical difficulties) near end of 1st period
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Don Edwards (Sabres)

• Dale Hawerchuk and the Jets continue their turn-around season against the Leafs
• Jets played to a 48 point improvement from the previous season (largest single-season turn-around by one team in NHL history), partly in thanks to Calder Trophy winner Hawerchuk and key acquisitions like Paul MacLean and Doug Soetaert
• In this game, rookie sensation Dale Hawerchuk leads the Jets with 3 Goals and 2 Assists en route to a 10-2 kicking of the Leafs

• The Jets, in front of their hometown fans, shut out the Leafs 7-0
• Goalies: Michel Larocque (Maple Leafs) and Ed Stanowski (Jets)

• A complete shootout seeing the Kings firing the last round with a 10-8 win - the most goals combined in one playoff game

• Edmonton came out quickly, taking a 5-0 lead into the 3rd period. Kings coach Don Perry had almost conceded defeat, telling his players to play well enough in the 3rd to gain momentum for the next game. The Kings got momentum alright, and they also got a win
• Los Angeles erased its deficit to 5-4, and Steve Bozek got a shot past Grant Fuhr to tie the score with 5 seconds left in regulation. Then at 2:35 of overtime, Daryl Evans, a rookie left wing, sent a shot over Fuhr's shoulder to seal the Kings' incredible comeback victory. It was the "Miracle on Manchester" � the name for street the Great Western Forum was located
• Later in the series... Glenn Anderson's game-winner would give Edmonton Game 4, but the Kings' confidence could not be beaten in the decisive Game 5 - a 7-4 win for L.A. in Edmonton

• Kings stun and eliminate the powerful Oilers with a 7-4 win

• Game broadcast on Finland TV (Finnish Commentary)
• Wayne Gretzky's only ever participation at the World Championships (following Oilers' upset by the L.A. Kings)
• Flyers' Bobby Clarke and Bill Barber sport helmets - Barber wears the 'C'
• Greg Millen tends goal for Canada
• Other Canadian Notables Include: Dale Hawerchuk, Mike Gartner, Bobby Smith and Bob Gainey
• Esa Tikkanen worked the tournament as Team Canada STICKBOY in his Native Country

• The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, scores two goals and two assists in a 6-0 rout
• Gretzky and Mats Naslund are named Players of the Game for their respective teams
• To end the tournament, Canada cried foul and rightfully so. The World Championships turned into a farce as Canada needed the Soviet Union to defeat Czechoslovakia to claim a Silver medal. The Soviets and Czechs played to a 0-0 tie with both teams getting under 10 shots on goal each. Thus, Canada settled for the Bronze medal. Soviet Union wins the Gold, Czechoslovakia takes the Silver
• In all, Gretzky collected six goals and eight assists for 14 points to lead all players. He was joined by Team Canada's captain Bill Barber on the tournament All-Star team, marking the first time since 1968 that two Canadians were selected to the first All-Star team at a World event
• Goalies: Gilles Meloche (Canada) and Gote Wailtalo (Sweden)

• Pelle Lindbergh records his 1st NHL shutout in a 4-0 win
• Goalies: Pelle Lindbergh (Flyers) and Mario Lessard (Kings)

• Flyers defeat the Oilers, 4-2
• Goalies: Pelle Lindbergh (Flyers) and Andy Moog (Oilers)

• Flyers defeat the Penguins, 4-3
• Goalies: Michel Dion (Penguins) and Pelle Lindbergh (Flyers)

• A young Pelle Lindbergh faces former Jet Lindsay Middlebrook

• Wayne Grezky scores 2 Goals in a 4-3 Oilers win

• Red Army defeat the North Stars, 6-3
• A LOT of empty seats in the crowd
• Goalies: Vladislav Tretiak (Red Army) and Rollie Melanson, replaced by Don Beaupre (North Stars)
• NOTE: Stoppages edited out

• Jets defenseman Serge Savard plays in his 1000th NHL game
• Oilers crush the Jets at home, 8-3
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Ed Stanowski (Jets)

• The Soviets defeat the Flyers, 5-1
• Goalies: Pelle Lindbergh (Flyers) and Vladislav Tretiak (USSR)

• Flyers shut out the Kings, 2-0
• Markus Mattsson makes his Kings debut
• Goalies: Pelle Lindbergh (Flyers) and Markus Mattsson (Kings)

• Wayne Grezky scores 4 Goals in the 3rd period on the late Pelle Lindbergh to boost the Campbell Conference to a 9-3 win
• Gretzky is awarded the game's MVP award

• The Canadiens double-up the Oilers, 4-2
• Goalies: Andy Moog (Oilers) and Rick Wamsley (Canadiens)

• In the end, the Oilers outscore the Red Wings, 9-7
• Goalies: Gilles Gilbert (Red Wings) and Andy Moog (Oilers)

• The Oilers destroy the Flames, 10-2
• Goalies: Andy Moog (Oilers) and Reggie Lemelin, replaced by Don Edwards (Flames)

• The Oilers handle the Blackhawks in Game 1, 8-4
• Wayne Gretzky finishes the game with 1 Goal and 4 Assists while linemate Jari Kurri records 2 Goals and 2 Assists
• Goalies: Tony Esposito (Blackhawks) and Andy Moog (Oilers)

• The Oilers, appearing in their first Stanley Cup Final, are swept by the defending Cup Champ Islanders
• Islanders win their 4th consecutive championship
• This marked the end of the Islanders' dynasty and the beginning of the Oilers'

• The US Olympic squad boasted future NHL stars including Pat Lafontaine, Chris Chelios, Al Iafrate and Ed Olczyk
• Phil Verchota and John Harrington return from the 1980 Miracle On Ice team
• Goalies: Bob Mason (US) and Al Jensen (Washington)

• Flyers win 6-3
• Goalies: Pelle Lindbergh (Flyers) and Rick Wamsley (Canadiens)

• The Oilers destroy the Devils 13-4, causing Gretzky to lash out stating the Devils were a "Mickey Mouse" organization. He did so, due in part to feeling so bad about his friend and former teammate Ron Low getting lit up all night long

• Rookie Tom Barrasso makes 35 saves in a 7-4 Sabres win
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Sabres) and Richard Sevigny (Canadiens)

• The Oilers outscore the North Stars, 12-8
• Goalies: Don Beaupre, replaced by Gilles Meloche (North Stars) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• The Oilers defeat the Whalers, 5-3
• Goalies: Greg Millen (Whalers) and Andy Moog (Oilers)

• Oilers skate away with a 7-3 victory
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Greg Stefan (Red Wings)

• The US Olympic squad boasted future NHL stars including Pat Lafontaine, Chris Chelios, Al Iafrate and Ed Olczyk
• Phil Verchota and John Harrington return from the 1980 Miracle On Ice team
• Goalies: Marc Behrend (US) and Norm ? (IHL)

• The last game of Wayne Gretzky's 51 consecutive game point streak
• Game ends in a 3-3 tie
• Goalies: Ron Low (Devils) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• One of Hawks' goalie Tony Esposito's final NHL games
• Flyers' Mark Howe scores with 1 second remaining in regulation to tie the game; Final score 5-5
• Goalies: Bob Froese (Flyers) and Tony Esposito (Blackhawks)

• Canada doubles-up on the USA, 4-2
• Canada's Carey Wilson scores 3 Goals and adds 1 Assist; Canada's Pat Flatley scores 1 Goal and 1 Assist and USA's Pat LaFontaine collects 2 Assists
• Also includes news coverage of the game
• Goalies: Mario Gosselin (Canada) and Marc Behrend (USA)

• Soviet goaltending legend Vladislav Tretiak retires from active play on a high note, shutting out Czechoslovakia 2-0 to win Olympic Gold

• Isles' Pat LaFontaine and Pat Flatley's NHL Debuts; Flatley scores on his 1st shot on Goal and gets an Assist later as well
• Islanders edge the Jets, 4-3
• One of Moe Mantha's final games with the Jets prior to a deadline deal which saw him shipped to Pittsburgh along with a 1984 1st Round Pick (Doug Bodger) in exchange for to be long-time Jets defenseman Randy Carlyle
• Goalies: Rollie Melanson (Islanders) and Doug Soetaert (Jets)

• Isles' Ken Morrow plays the hero in Overtime, sending the Isles past the Rangers into the 2nd round with a 3-2 win
• With just over a minute left in the 3rd period, and down 2-1, Rangers Head Coach Herb Brooks changes goalies - replacing Glen Hanlon with a young John Vanbiesbrouck. Back then, the NHL had a rule in place where upon a goalie change, the new goalie was allowed time to warm up, which gave the Rangers a Timeout without having to use one. The move was a wise one, as within the last minute of the 3rd period, Vanbiesbrouck was pulled for an extra attacker and Don Maloney scored to tie the game at 2, causing Overtime
• This served as Vanbiesbrouck's only post-season appearance that season (1st ever) and 4th appearance overall in the NHL - 2 seasons before he went on to win the Vezina Trophy as a Rangers starter
• Goalies: Glen Hanlon (Rangers) and Billy Smith (Islanders)

• The battle of Quebec began as soon as the Nordiques entered the league in 1979. It was a natural rivalry that saw some great hockey and unfortunately some very ugly incidents - this one was the ugliest and was thereby titled the "Friday Night Massacre"
• Teams end the 2nd with a bench-clearing brawl and start the 3rd with another - 248 penalty minutes in total
• Canadiens rode a hot goaltender in rookie Steve Penney, going head-to-head against veteran Dan Bouchard

• Game available in both French and English, the French version having the better Video Quality

• The Oilers eliminate the Flames with a 7-4 win
• Goalies: Reggie Lemelin (Flames) and Andy Moog (Oilers)

• The Oilers plan of splitting the games in New York worked based on the team's defence. Oilers goaltender Grant Fuhr out-dueled Isles' Billy Smith in a 1-0 victory that saw enforcer Kevin McClelland become the unlikely winning goal hero. The Oilers showed the mighty Islanders that they could be beat

• Simply said, the Oilers win their 1st Stanley Cup
• Includes CBC's "The National" following the Hockey Night In Canada broadcast

• A 19 year old goaltender named Dominik Hasek and his Czechoslovakian teammates are shut out 3-0 by the Soviets in each team's 1st game of the tourament

• The tournament marked the first Canada Cup for the Soviets without their saving grace Vladislav Tretiak. Despite serious concerns about their new goalies, the Soviets cruised to a first place finish in the round robin
• With the Soviets playing so strongly and the Canadians playing so poorly, it seemed impossible for the Canadians to beat the mighty Red Army. However that was the playoff round match up with the winner to advance to the Cup final. Despite their poor performance, Canada had no trouble getting up to play the Soviets. They managed to keep it close and forced overtime. Mike Bossy deflected a Paul Coffey point shot in the extra period. Canada had done the improbable, with a 3-2 OT win
• Vladimir Myshkin tends goal for the Soviets while Pete Peeters does the job for Canada

• The Swedes embarrassed the Americans 9-2 to set up the first ever Canada VS Sweden Canada Cup Final
• Canada took the best of three final 2 games to none (winning this game 6-5) thanks to the play of tournament MVP John Tonelli and the Oiler combination of Paul Coffey and Wayne Gretzky

• Mario Lemieux's First NHL Game
• Scores a goal on his first shift, finishes game with 1 Goal and 1 Assist in a losing cause
• Goalies: Denis Herron (Penguins) and Pete Peeters (Bruins)

• Mario Lemieux's Second NHL Game
• Lemieux's 1st NHL game in his hometown
• The powerful Habs toy with the hapless Pens
• The game on the tape appears to be a special version from CBC, as the entire game is filmed from high above at center ice (one camera). Dick Irvin and Mickey Redmond do commentary for this Hockey Night In Canada broadcast. At times they make references to a player on the ice while the rinkside telecast camera for the actual TV broadcast would pan the player. Although this footage continues on with the high above camera shot. Also TV ads are heard but not seen, this "broadcast" never leaves the game. The odd replay is shown up close
• Goalies: Michel Dion (Penguins) and Steve Penney (Canadiens)

• Former U.S. Olympian Mark Behrend tended the pipes for the Jets while Bob Froese started for the Flyers. "Captain Hook" Mike Keenan replaced Froese with Pelle Lindbergh to start the 3rd with the Jets leading 4-2 after Froese allowed some soft goals
• Jets' Dale Hawerchuk records 4 assists in a 7-4 Jets win
• Rookies Rick Tocchet (Flyers) and Dave Ellett (Jets) in action. Ellett scores
• Flyers play-by-play man Gene Hart pronounced Hawerchuk "Horachuk" and was off the ball on a lot of play calls. Also referred to Jets' Thomas Steen as Anders Steen (who hadn't played with the Jets since the 80-81 season while Thomas started in 81-82) and later changed over once Steen was called for a penalty

• Early season meeting between the two Stanley Cup Finalists
• Pelle Lindbergh sees action for the Flyers and gets the win, 5-3

• Oilers defeat the Jets, 7-5
• Goalies: Andy Moog (Oilers) and Marc Behrend (Jets)

• Penguins double-up on the Flyers, 4-2
• Mario Lemieux early in his rookie NHL season
• Goalies: Pelle Lindbergh (Flyers) and Roberto Romano (Penguins)

• Pelle Lindbergh leads the Flyers to a 7-4 win on the road

• Rare footage of Cam Neely as a Canuck, in his 2nd NHL season
• Game also feautres rookies Al Iafrate, Russ Courtnall, J.J. Daigneault, Petri Skriko, and Doug Lidster
• Canucks come out on top 4-1

• First ever #66 VS #99 battle
• Mario Lemieux nets 2 Goals while Wayne Gretzky collects 3 Assists in a 4-3 Penguins win
• Game clipped and incomplete; vertical hold is also an issue through portions of the tape but it's the best copy of this very rare game I've seen...

• Mario Lemieux in his 1st All Star Game, scores 2 Goals to lead the Wales over the Campbells 6-4, and wins the Game's MVP award for his efforts

• Pelle Lindbergh and the Flyers defeat John Vanbiesbrouck and the Rangers 5-2

• Oilers win 4-2
• Goalies: Marc Behrend (Jets) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• Oilers win 5-2
• Goalies: Brian Hayward (Jets) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• Oilers win 5-4
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Brian Hayward (Jets)

• Wayne Gretzky ties his own playoff record as he racks up 3 Goals and 4 Assists en route to a 8-3 win, eliminating the Jets in a sweep
• Jets superstar Dale Hawerchuk was forced to watch the entire series from the sidelines following a vicious crosscheck by Flames Jamie Macoun in the previous round, which resulted in Hawerchuk breaking ribs. The Jets were coming off their best ever NHL season, 4th overall with 96 points

• Canada's Mario Lemieux scores 2 Goals in a 3-1 victory - Canada's 1st win over the Soviets since 1961 (Lemieux was named to the All-Tournament Team)
• Final Standings: Czechoslovakia (Gold), Canada (Silver), USSR (Bronze)
• Other Canadian Notables Include: Steve Yzerman, Ron Francis, Scott Stevens and Bernie Nicholls

• Czechoslovakia and Canada (the first and second teams in the round robin tournament respectively) faced off in the Finals
• Czechoslovakia defeat Canada 5-3 to win the tournament. Despite winning the Championship, Czechoslovakia would miss the medal round completely the next year
• Final Results: Czechoslovakia (Gold), Canada (Silver), USSR (Bronze)
• Goalies: Pat Riggin (Canada) and Jiri Kralik (Czechoslovakia)

• Oilers Win Second Stanley Cup

• New Jersey comes in with a 6-5 win
• Goalies: Alain Chevrier, in his 1st NHL game (Devils) and Pelle Lindbergh, starting off his last NHL season (Flyers)

• Montreal defeats Chicago, 6-3
• Goalies: Warren Skorodenski (Blackhawks) and Steve Penney (Canadiens)
• Skorodenski sports a skull-painted mask
• Also includes highlights of Guy Lafleur scoring his 500th NHL goal VS New Jersey on December 20, 1983

• The Bruins defeat the Canadiens, 7-2
• Patrick Roy's 2nd NHL start
• Former Jet Morris Lukowich skates for the Bruins
• Goalies: Patrick Roy (Canadiens) and Doug Keans (Bruins)

• One of the 1st few games of Patrick Roy's NHL career, his 1st VS their cross-Province rivals
• Roy goes head-to-head with Nords goaler Mario Gosselin

• Pelle Lindbergh's Last Game
• Includes an intermission feature on Flyer goalies Bob Froese and Pelle Lindbergh sharpening their playing the puck skills in practice
• Lindbergh wins his last game 6-2; Murray Bannerman in goal for the Hawks

• Canadiens shut out the Kings, 6-0
• Doug Soetaert records his 4th career NHL shutout, 1st as a Canadien
• Goalies: Doug Soetaert (Canadiens) and Bob Janecyk (Kings)

• Flyers 1st game since Pelle Lindbergh's death
• Game is preluded with a Memorial Ceremony to the Life of Pelle Lindbergh
• The Flyers left their grief in the locker room long enough to go out and defeat the Edmonton Oilers 5-3 in an emotion-packed game
• Goalies: Andy Moog (Oilers) and Darren Jensen (Flyers)

• The Central Red Army overpower the Canadiens with a 6-1 win - 10 years to the day after their classic 3-3 battle at the Forum
• Goalies: Sergei Mylnikov (Red Army) and Doug Soetaert, replaced by a young Patrick Roy (Canadiens)

• Many to-be NHL'ers in this one of course; most notably...
  • Canada - Shayne Corson, Joe Nieuwendyk, Joe Murphy, Gary Roberts, Scott Mellanby, Luc Robitaille and Sean Burke
  • Czechoslovakia - Michal Pivonka, Robert Kron, David Volek and Frantisek Musil
• However, Canada finished the tournament 2nd to the USSR, setting the stage for their infamous matchup 1 year later... (see below)

• Guy Carbonneau scores within the first minute, Stephane Richer pots 2 of his own and Mats Naslund converts on a nice one-timer - the only scoring in the game in a 4-0 Habs win
• Patrick Roy celebrates his 1st Career NHL Shutout, although not worked quite as hard as Jets' goaltender Daniel Bouchard at the other end
• Play stoppages and Intermissions clipped out to provide a continuous flow of action

• Sophomore Mario Lemieux scores 2 Goals to lead the Penguins to a 5-2 win over the Sabres
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Sabres) and Roberto Romano (Penguins)

• In 1986, 20 year old rookie Patrick Roy became the youngest starting goaltender to win the Stanley Cup - this game was instrumental in the Canadiens attaining that goal
• Roy stops the first 13 shots he faced in Overtime, turning aside at least a half dozen spectacular scoring opportunities, before Claude Lemieux scores the winning goal with the Canadiens' first shot
• Former Canadiens' General Manager Serge Savard refers to it as "the best one-period Overtime performance by a goaltender I can recall and was one of the reasons Roy became the youngest winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy
• Goalies: Patrick Roy (Canadiens) and John Vanbiesbrouck (Rangers)

• Known as "The Steve Smith Game"
• Oilers' defenseman Steve Smith's "mistake", an attempted pass from behind his own goal banking off of Grant Fuhr for the clinching Calgary goal, costs the Oilers their playoff lives and the opportunity to win 5 consecutive Stanley Cups
• Final score: 3-2 Flames
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Mike Vernon (Flames)

• The Canadiens win their 23rd Stanley Cup; Patrick Roy wins his 1st
• Roy also captures the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP
• Goalies: Patrick Roy (Canadiens) and Mike Vernon (Flames)

• Flyers' goaltender Ron Hextall makes his NHL debut
• Later that season, Hextall would lead the Flyers to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Although eventually bowing out to the powerful Oilers, Hextall earned the Vezina and Conn Smythe Trophies for his efforts over the year. Over his 13 year career, he would lead his team to the Finals one more time (1997) in addition to setting a number of NHL and Flyers team records
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Ron Hextall (Flyers)

• Wendel Clark nets 4 Leaf goals in a 5-5 tie
• Ron MacLean's Debut as CBC Hockey Night In Canada's Host
• Goalies: Daren Puppa (Sabres) in only his 8th career NHL game and Ken Wregget (Leafs)

• A young Patrick Roy and his Canadiens take on a hungry, powerful Oilers team coming off their first non-Stanley Cup winning season in 3 years. That Cup went to Roy and his Canadien teammates instead...
• In this game, the typical "Gretzky To Kurri" happened with 11 seconds left in Overtime to win the game 5-4
• Goalies: Andy Moog (Oilers) and Patrick Roy (Canadiens)

• Despite being outshot 35-18, Bruins Rookie Goaltender Bill Ranford comes up big and claims his 1st win of the season (4th career win in just his 7th career NHL game)
• Jets Rookie Goaltender Pokey Reddick plays in his 3rd career NHL game
• Cam Neely skates in one of his 1st games as a Boston Bruin
• A rookie Fredrik Olausson skates for the Jets
• Goalies: Bill Ranford (Bruins) and Pokey Reddick (Jets)

• Penguins defeat the Bruins, 2-1
• Mario Lemieux shadowed by Bruins' Steve Kasper all night long - Lemieux held scoreless
• Game joined in progress, missing first 2 minutes of 1st period
• Goalies: Pat Riggin (Bruins) and Gilles Meloche (Penguins)

• Game ends in a 3-3 tie
• Goalies: Bob Mason (Capitals) and Sam St. Laurent (Red Wings)

• Wayne Gretzky collects 3 Goals and 2 assists, his 3rd goal being the 500th of his NHL career, in an empty net with 18 seconds remaining
• Oilers win 5-2
• Canucks' Troy Gamble's 1st NHL game
• Goalies: Troy Gamble (Canucks) and Andy Moog (Oilers)

• Leafs win 3-1
• Goalies: Allan Bester (Maple Leafs) and Sam St. Laurent (Red Wings)

• Blackhawks win it in Overtime, 6-5
• Goalies: Murray Bannerman (Blackhawks) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• The Jets squeek out a 2-1 win over the powerful Oilers
• Goalies: Pokey Reddick (Jets) and Andy Moog (Oilers)

• College rookie Ed Belfour in Fighting Sioux action

• The Infamous "Punchout In Piestany"
• Many to-be NHL'ers in this one of course; most notably...
  • Canada - Brendan Shanahan, Theo Fleury (who plays great), Glen Wesley, Steve Chiasson, Jimmy Waite (who also plays great), Pierre Turgeon
  • USSR - Valeri Zelepukin, Vladimir Konstantinov, Alex Mogilny, Vladimir Malakhov

• USSR went into the game with nothing to lose, out of the medal round in 6th place (their worst placing to date). Canada with a win of 5 goals or more would get the Gold, a win with less than 5 goals would win Silver, and a loss would still allow Canada to claim the Bronze
• Game haulted just past half way through the 2nd period with an altercation on the ice. Russians left the bench first and Canadians followed suit. After a lengthly delay, the IIHF decided behind closed doors that the game would be scored a 0-0 final, with both teams' records struck from the record. As a result, Canada ended up with no medal. Finland won the Gold
• A fuming Don Cherry in studio goes at it with Brian Williams (pretty much a war of words and opinions) while Don Wittman and Sherry Basin took control of their end in Czechoslovakia
• Also included are highlights and comments by those involved and an interview with former Team Canada defenceman, Boston Bruin Gord Kluzak about the incident (TSN)

• In February, 1987, the NHL All Star Game was set aside for one season. In its place was two game series in Quebec City that pitted the NHL All Stars against what many people call the strongest team ever iced - The Soviet National Team. There was no clear winner as each side won one game a piece (Game 2 below), although the Soviets did score 1 more goal than did the NHL All Stars. Wayne Gretzky led all players with 4 assists, but he was upstaged by the spectacular play of big Russian left winger Valeri Kamensky. Ironically enough, Kamensky would later be allowed to play in Quebec City with the Nordiques when he was cleared to play in the National Hockey League
• Dave Poulin scores with just over 1 minute left in the game to give the NHL All Stars a 4-3 win

• USSR evens up the series for good with a 5-3 win

• Jets win their last ever playoff series
• A rookie Brett Hull skates for the Flames
• Goalies: Mike Vernon, replaced by Reggie Lemelin (Flames) and Daniel Berthiaume (Jets)

• Oilers' Glenn Anderson scores 2 Goals in a 3-2 Oilers Overtime victory
• Goalies: Daniel Berthiaume (Jets) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• Oilers win 5-2
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Pokey Reddick (Jets)

• Oilers win 4-2
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Daniel Berthiaume, replaced by Pokey Reddick (Jets)

• UND's Ed Belfour as a 22 year old punk =)
• Many other to be NHL'er in this game as well

• Ed Belfour in his UND days faces and defeats fellow future NHL'er Bob Essensa
• Many other to be NHL'er in this game as well

• Rochester was the farm team of the Buffalo Sabres, Sherbrooke for the Canadiens
• 1st AHL Final to go 7 games since 1962
• Many to-be NHL'ers in this one of course; most notably...
  • Rochester - Uwe Krupp, Daren Puppa, Don Lever (Last career game), Benoit Hogue, Ray Sheppard, Mikael Andersson, Jeff Parker, Bob Halkidis, and Peter Taglianetti
  • Sherbrooke - Vincent Riendeau, Mike Keane, Bobby Dollas, Peter Douris, and Randy Gilhen
  • Dan Marouelli is the Referee

• Glenn Anderson scores late in a tied hockey game to boost the Oilers to their 3rd Cup in 4 years
• Oilers defenceman Steve Smith is the 1st to lift the Cup, handed to him by captain Wayne Gretzky. It was Smith's misfortune a year earlier that cost the Oilers the opportunity to once again hoist the Cup
• Flyers rookie goaltender Ron Hextall becomes only the 4th player in NHL history to win the Conn Smythe trophy as Playoff MVP while on the losing team
• Goalies: Ron Hextall (Flames) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)
• Bonus post-game coverage as swaps back between "Stanley Cup 87" and CBC

• Canada defeats the Finns, 4-1
• Goalies: Kari Takko (Finland) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• Canada edges the Americans, 3-2
• Goalies: John Vanbiesbrouck (USA) and Grant Fuhr (Canada)

• USSR handles the Americans, 5-1
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (USA) and Sergei Mylnikov (USSR)

• The two tournament favorites lock up in Round Robin action but settling nothing, tying 3-3

• The Soviets shock the Canadians with a 6-5 Overtime win

• The Canadians assumed a 3-1 lead but watched it vanish. The game went into Overtime which required a Mario Lemieux tally in the second Overtime period to force a third and deciding game. Again the Final Score was 6-5
• According to The World Cup Of Hockey website, "some have called that second game the best game ever played"
• Commercials, Intermissions and many stoppages in play are cleanly edited out to provide continuous action

• The infamous game and the infamous goal. Mario Lemieux takes a Wayne Gretzky pass with 1:26 left in the game and goes top corner, allowing Canada to win the game 6-5 (again), the Series, and the bragging rights
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Canada) and Sergei Mylnikov (USSR)
• Wayne Gretzky was named Tournament MVP, leading the tournament scoring with 21 points in 9 games

• Jets win 6-3
• Hawks' Steve Larmer scores 2 of Chicago's 3 Goals
• Goalies: Darren Pang (Blackhawks) and Daniel Berthiaume (Jets)
• NOTE: Picture is a little snowy

• Jets win 7-6
• Goalies: Pokey Reddick (Jets) and Rollie Melanson, replaced by Glenn Healy (Kings)

• Ron Hextall becomes the first goalie to shoot and score a goal
• Flyers win 5-2
• Goalies: Reggie Lemelin (Bruins) and Ron Hextall (Flyers)

• Jets win 4-1
• Goalies: Alain Chevrier (Devils) and Daniel Berthiaume (Jets)

• Game ends in a 4-4 tie
• Goalies: Glen Hanlon (Red Wings) and Pokey Reddick (Jets)

• Red Wings win 3-2 in Overtime
• Goalies: Sam St. Laurent (Red Wings) and Bob Sauve (Devils)

• Wayne Gretzky's Last All Star Appearance As An Edmonton Oiler
• Patrick Roy's 1st All Star Game
• Denis Potvin's Last All Star Appearance
• Bob Probert Plays In The Game... What's Up With That? =P
• An All-Star Game with an Overtime finish
• Mario Lemieux wins the MVP award with a 6 point performance. This was deemed by many as the finest game Lemieux has ever played

• Buffalo defeats Winnipeg, 5-3
• Steve Penney's 2nd last NHL appearance
• Goalies: Daniel Berthiaume, replaced by Steve Penney at the 33 minute mark (Jets) and Tom Barrasso (Sabres)
• NOTE: Video slows for 1 second stints at times - SEEKING FLAWLESS COPY IF ONE EXISTS...

• Edmonton crowd gives Wayne Gretzky an ovation after delivering a bodycheck in the 3rd
• Oilers win 3-2
• Goalies: Daniel Berthiaume (Jets) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• Jets break 16 game playoff losing streak VS Oilers with a 6-4 win
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Daniel Berthiaume (Jets)

• Wayne Gretzky delivers the famous Overtime slapshot from just inside the blueline that ends up over Mike Vernon's shoulder (a goal he refers to as one of the biggest of his career) to win the game 5-4
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Mike Vernon (Flames)

• With the score tied 3-3 and three minutes left in the second period, the power went out at the Boston Gardens. After a 30 minute delay, the lights could not be restored and the game was cancelled. Game 4 was replayed in Edmonton two nights later (see next game...)
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Oilers) and Andy Moog (Bruins)

• Following the power failure in Boston, the series was moved back to Edmonton for a replayed Game 4
• Wayne Gretzky wins his last Stanley Cup
• Oilers win by a 6-3 score
• Goalies: Andy Moog (Bruins) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• Tape also includes the Edmonton press conference announcing the trade of Wayne Gretzky to L.A. Peter Pocklington makes the announcement and an emotional Gretzky has some departing comments

• 18-year old Jeremy Roenick doesn't play in this one, but is shown in the organ loft with a pink shirt =)
• One of Ed Belfour's First NHL Appearances
• Game joined in progress, two minutes into the 1st period

• Wayne Gretzky's Kings Debut
• Gretzky scores on his first shot, beating former childhood teammate Greg Stefan
• Kings win 5-2
• Edited ESPN Classics version
• Goalies: Greg Stefan (Red Wings) and Rollie Melanson (Kings)

• Wayne Gretzky's Kings Debut
• Gretzky scores on his first shot, beating former childhood teammate Greg Stefan
• Kings win 5-2
• Originally-aired PASS Sports broadcast, action complete (commercials and intermissions edited out for constant action)
• Roy Orbison sings the National Anthem
• Goalies: Greg Stefan (Red Wings) and Rollie Melanson (Kings)

• Blackhawks' Ed Belfour's 1st NHL Regular Season Game
• A young Adam Oates also skates in this game, for the Red Wings
• Steve Yzerman scores just as time expires in OT to win it for the Wings
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Greg Stefan (Red Wings)
• Game joined in progress with 3 minutes left in the 1st period

• Wayne Gretzky's 1st game back in Edmonton after THE TRADE
• Oilers win 8-6
• Goalies: Glenn Healy (Kings) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• Devils win the game 6-4
• Pens' Mario Lemieux collects 2 Goals and 1 Assist in the loss
• Rick Tabaracci makes his NHL debut - his only appearance with the Penguins
• Goalies: Rick Tabaracci, replaced by Wendell Young (Penguins) and Sean Burke (Devils)

• Penguins' Mario Lemieux and Paul Coffey each register 4 points in a 7-4 win
• Ed Belfour in only his 3rd NHL Regular Season Game
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Steve Guenette (Penguins)

• Red Wings double-up on the Jets, 6-3
• Goalies: Alain Chevrier, replaced by Pokey Reddick (Jets) and Greg Stefan (Red Wings)

• The Rangers cruise to an quick 5-1 lead and hold on to win 5-3
• Goalies: Billy Smith (Islanders), in one of his last full NHL games, and John Vanbiesbrouck (Rangers)

• Guy Lafleur scores 2 Goals, 1 on a Penalty Shot
• Rangers edge the Jets, 4-3
• Winnipeg Blue Bombers Lyle Bauer, Michael Gray and Mike Riley bring out the Grey Cup, after defeating the B.C. Lions 22-21 in the 1988 CFL Grey Cup Final; Dale Hawerchuk presents them with a Jets jersey with "Bombers #1" on the back
• Goalies: Bob Froese (Rangers) and Pokey Reddick, replaced by Alain Chevrier (Jets)

• Ed Belfour records his 1st NHL win in his 8th NHL appearance
• Chicago defeats Detroit, 7-2
• Goalies: Glen Hanlon, replaced by Sam St. Laurent (Red Wings) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)
• NOTE: - Small amount of action missing from start of game; Stoppages clipped

• Canada defeats a stacked home USA team, 5-1
• Game notables...
  • Canada - Rod Brind'Amour, Andrew Cassels, Eric Desjardins, Mike Ricci, Stephane Fiset
  • USA - Mike Modano, Bill Guerin, Tony Amonte, John Leclair, Jeremy Roenick

• Whalers have a 3rd period comeback to edge the Red Wings, 4-3
• Goalies: Sam St. Laurent (Red Wings) and Mike Liut (Whalers)

• Mario Lemieux becomes the 1st player in NHL history to score a goal in every conceivable way (Even Strength, Power Play, Short-Handed, Penalty Shot, Empty Net)
• Penguins win 8-6
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Bob Sauve, replaced by Chris Terreri (Devils)

• Game ends in a 2-2 tie
• Goalies: Greg Stefan (Red Wings) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Penguins' Mario Lemieux becomes the Penguins' All-Time leading scorer, passing Rick Kehoe who had 636 points
• Lemieux also scores his 50th goal of the season, in his 44th game - 2nd fastest in history to Wayne Gretzky's 50 in 39
• Jets' Pat Elynuik collects 5 points in the 2nd period, just 1 shy of Bryan Trottier's NHL record
• Jets' Thomas Steen collects 4 points in the game, Lemieux is in on all 3 Penguins' goals in a 7-3 loss to the Jets
• Penguins' Mark Recchi, who only gets a handful of shifts, scores his 1st NHL goal - on a nice set-up from Lemieux
• Goalies: Wendell Young, replaced by Frank Pietrangelo (Penguins) and Pokey Reddick (Jets)

• Red Wings defeat the Jets, 6-2
• Goalies: Glen Hanlon (Red Wings) and Pokey Reddick (Jets)

• Wayne Gretzky records his 1800th point, finishing the night with 2 Goals and 5 Assists
• Kings topple the Nords 11-3
• Goalies: Mario Gosselin, replaced by Ron Tugnutt after 7 goals on 27 shots (Nordiques) and Glenn Healy (Kings)

• Short-lived Hawks goaltender (and now TV hockey analyst) Darren Pang registers 43 saves in a typical fast-paced and entertaining inter-divisional matchup
• An 18 year old rookie named Jeremy Roenick during his call-up stint from QMJHL
• Blackhawks win 5-1
• Goalies: Jon Casey, replaced by Kari Takko (North Stars) and Darren Pang (Blackhawks)

• Hawks fire 62 shots at Penguins' goaltender Tom Barrasso but lose 6-5
• Jeremy Roenick early in his NHL career (debut season) - scores a Goal
• Mario Lemieux - 3 Goals and 3 Assists
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Alain Chevrier (Penguins)

• The Rangers organization dedicates the evening to former "Blue Shirt" goaltender Ed Giacomin, dubbing it "Ed Giacomin Night", complete with a pre-game ceremony
• Jets win 6-3
• Goalies: Bob Essensa (Jets) in his 12th career NHL game and John Vanbiesbrouck (Rangers)

• Sabres goaltender Clint Malarchuk has his jugular vein cut by the skate of Blues' forward Steve Tuttle in a goal mouth collision. Malarchuk clutched at his bloody neck as doctors were rushed on to the ice to save his life. As it turned out he spent only one night in the hospital and competed in the NHL only a couple of weeks later. But it could have been so much worse - perhaps even fatal
• Dubbed in during the 1st intermission is a news report from the next morning concerning the Malarchuk incident
• On a lighter note, Sabres' Mark Napier plays in his 1000th NHL game
• Brett Hull and uncle Dennis are Interviewed in the 2nd intermission
• Blues win 2-1
• Goalies: Clint Malarchuk, replaced by Jacques Cloutier (Sabres) and Vincent Riendeau (Blues)
• NOTE: Sub-par (yet quite enjoyable) video quality, picture has tracking line near bottom of screen and shakes throughout. Regardless, this game is very rare

• Following the game, the video also includes a feature by "The Score" in Canada on Clint Malarchuk; touching on the incident, his life battles with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and depression which ultimately ended his career, and more recently moving on to land a position as goalie coach with the Florida Panthers

• Penguins win 5-3
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and John Vanbiesbrouck (Rangers)

• Penguins win 4-3 to sweep the Rangers
• Mike Richter's plays in his 1st NHL game
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Mike Richter (Rangers)

• Wayne Gretzky wins his 1st playoff series against his former club
• Goalies: Kelly Hrudey (Kings) and Grant Fuhr (Oilers)

• Calgary defeats Montreal 4-2 to win their 1st Stanley Cup
• Goalies: Mike Vernon (Flames) and Patrick Roy (Canadiens)

• Wayne Gretzky ties and then later breaks Gordie Howe's All-Time NHL points record of 1850
• Gretzky caps off the night with an Overtime goal as well, giving the Kings a 5-4 win
• Goalies: Mario Gosselin (Nordiques) and Bill Ranford (Oilers)

• Hawks' Jeremy Roenick scores his 1st career NHL hat trick in a 7-5 Hawks win
• Game sees a brawl featuring Leafs' Gary Leeman VS Hawks' Denis Savard and Dave Manson in addition to a number of other bouts and such
• Goalies: Alain Chevrier (Hawks) and Alan Bester (Leafs)

• The Red Wings and Maple Leafs settle for a 7-7 tie
• Leaf Legend Borje Salming skates for the Wings
• Peter Ing's 3rd NHL game
• Goalies: Glen Hanlon, replaced by Sam St. Laurent (Red Wings) and Peter Ing (Maple Leafs)

• Many to-be NHL'ers in this one of course; most notably...
  • Canada - Eric Lindros, Stu Barnes, Mike Ricci, Patrice Brisebois, Kris Draper and Stephane Fiset
  • Czechoslovakia - Jaromir Jagr, Robert Reichel and Bobby Holik

• With one game left to play, Canada looked like a lock for silver at the 1990 World Junior Championships. On the tournament's final day, all looked lost. Canada was beating the Czechs 2-1 behind Fiset's brilliance, but was struggling to hold the lead. Russia, meanwhile, was ahead of the Swedes 2-1 late in their game. The Swedes eventually did Canada a huge favour, scoring with one second left on the clock to tie the Soviets 2-2, opening the door for Canada. Word of the Swedish miracle hit the Canadian bench with 2:37 left in their match with Czechoslovakia. They rallied to hold off Jagr and company, winning 2-1 to claim a miracle Gold medal, while the Czechs claimed the Bronze
• Fiset went on to be named the Tournament's Top Goaltender

• The Nords outlast the Jets in an 8-6 barnburner
• Jets' goaler Daniel Berthiaume gets the hook after allowing 7 goals in 29 shots - Essensa relieved Berthiaume just before being pulled himself in favour of an extra attacker, without facing a shot. Result was the Nords scoring their 8th goal into the empty net
• Daniel Berthiaume's final game as a Jet, traded to Minnesota on January 22
• In regards to why Berthiaume was shipped out of town, as paraphrased from a website posting I found...
  • "Daniel Berthiaume was a young French phenom and a crowd favourite in Winnipeg until he yelled, swore and screamed at a young boy in quest of an autograph. A Winnipeg journalist just so happened to be nearby and broke the story of an overpaid and spoiled pro hockey goalie berating a 10 year old who just wanted to get his autograph. As a result, Jets fans jumped all over Berthiaume, booing him, which prompted the Jets to have Berthiaume publically apologize on TV prior to a broadcast Jet game. However, the wounds were too deep and as a result, Berthiaume was gone from the Jets a few weeks later"
• Goalies: Greg Millen (Nordiques) and Daniel Berthiaume, replaced by Bob Essensa (Jets)

• Wales Conference defeats the Campbells 12-7
• Mario Lemieux ties Wayne Gretzky's All-Star Game record with 4 Goals in a game, to claim the MVP Award

• Blues double-up on the Red Wings, 6-3
• Goalies: Vincent Riendeau (Blues) and Glen Hanlon, replaced by Sam St. Laurent (Red Wings)

• The Hawks defeat the Wings 8-6, in a high-scoring affair
• Goalies: Alain Chevrier (Blackhawks) and Sam St. Laurent, replaced by Glen Hanlon (Red Wings)

• Ed Belfour's return to the NHL following his year with the Canadian National Team in 1989-90. The Hawks allowed three early goals causing coach Mike Keenan to pull Greg Millen in favor of Belfour (who debuts his Eagle mask to the NHL)
• The Hawks with the help of Belfour and a ton of powerplays, come back and win the game 5-3
• Jon Casey sees action in the North Stars' goal

  Disc also includes...

  November 16, 1991 - Chicago Blackhawks VS Toronto Maple Leafs
  (CBC)
  • Opening Hockey Night In Canada segment prior to the game
  • "Coach's Corner" with Don Cherry and Ron MacLean
  • Last few minutes and Overtime period from the game, which ends up a 2-2 tie (Game was joined in progress in the 3rd period following Nationally broadcast Philadelphia VS Montreal matchup)
  • Both teams wearing their Original Six uniforms
  • Goalies: Ed Belfour (Hawks) and Felix Potvin (Leafs)

• Jets defenceman Dave Ellett ignites the "Sea of White" with his goal in Double Overtime, putting the Jets up 3-1 in the series
• Goalies: Bob Essensa (Jets), Stephane Beauregard (Jets - replaced an injured Essensa), and Bill Ranford (Oilers)

• The Jets, after leading the Series 3-1, lose 3-1 thus eliminating themselves from the playoffs
• The first 6 games of the series were decided by 1 goal (3 in Overtime)
• Following this, the Oilers came back to win 3 straight and thereby the series. They continued on to yet another Stanley Cup, their 1st and only without Wayne Gretzky
• Goalies: Stephane Beauregard (Jets) and Bill Ranford (Oilers)

• Rookie Jeremy Roenick and Eddie Belfour (in his 1st real stint with the Hawks just prior to his phenomenal rookie season), lead the Hawks past the Blues in a 8-2 blowout
• Steve Larmer ties a Hawks playoff record with 5 points (1 goal and 4 assists) while Jeremy Roenick notches 2 goals
• Blues goalie Vincent Riendeau is chased from the net once the Hawks make it 4-0, and is replaced by a rookie Curtis Joseph
• Commentators Don Wittman and Scotty Bowman state during the game that Keenan showed the confidence in selecting Belfour over Greg Millen or Jacques Cloutier for Game 7, and Keenan believing Belfour was the next coming of Ron Hextall or Grant Fuhr while others thought he may be just a flash in the pan
• Among the ads includes one for Hyundai featuring Patrick McKenna, now better recognized as "Harold" from The Red Green Show =)

• NHL Superstars Peter Bondra and Jaromir Jagr play their 1st NHL game
• Penguins win 7-4
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Mike Liut (Capitals)

• Wayne Gretzky records his 2000th NHL point
• Jets win the game, 6-2
• Goalies: Kelly Hrudey (Kings) and Bob Essensa (Jets)

• Bruins win 5-4
• The Blackhawks let this one slip away. The Bruins first score late in the 3rd to tie it up and then again to take the lead with less than 2 minutes remaining, prompting Hawks' coach Mike Keenan to pull Jacques Cloutier in favour of Ed Belfour (seemingly to give his team a mental break). Belfour is then pulled a mere 1 minute later for an extra attacker. Vintage Keenan
• Goalies: Jacques Cloutier, replaced by Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Reggie Lemelin (Bruins)

• The North Stars knock off the Blackhawks, 5-1
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Jon Casey (North Stars)

• Blues shut out the Blackhawks, 5-0
• Blues' Harold Snepsts plays in his 1000th NHL game
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Vincent Riendeau (Blues)

• Battle between the NHL's 2 best teams at the time
• Blues' Brett Hull lead the league in Goals with 32 (Finished the season with 86 - Most Ever By A Right-Winger and most Goals in a season next to Gretzky's 92 and 87 goal campaigns)
• Blues jump out to a quick 3-0 lead to end the first period (Captain Hook Mike Keenan surprisingly doesn't yank Eddie Belfour)
• Game results in a hairy 6-6 Tie
• Goalies: Vincent Riendeau (Blues) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Tournament leading scorer Eric Lindros leads Canada to the Gold Medal in one of the most exciting World Junior Finals ever played
• Canadian talent included Trevor Kidd, Felix Potvin, Scott Niedermayer, Patrice Brisebois, Martin Lapointe, Brad May, Kris Draper, Mike Sillinger and Pat Falloon
• Soviet talent included Pavel Bure, Darius Kasparaitis, Slava Kozlov, Alexei Zhitnik, Sergei Berezin, Dimitri Yushkevich, Boris Mironov, Oleg Petrov and Sandis Ozolinsh
• NOTE: Vertical hold throughout 3rd period and post-game not great but watchable - If you have a better copy, please let me know

• This was part of the "NHL Super Series" tour in which a number of Soviet teams were engaged in during the 1990-91 season, playing exhibition games against NHL teams
• Talent on the UCKA team included Vladimir Malakhov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Valeri Kamensky, Sergei Nemchinov, Dimitri Mironov, Sergei Zubov, Igor Kravchuk, Andrei Kovalenko, Evgeny Davydov and coach Viktor Tikhonov

• Consists of all All-Star Weekend "Festivities" from the historic Chicago Stadium: Blackhawk Oldtimers VS NHL Oldtimers, Skills Competition, and All-Star Game
• Many of the Chicago fans throughout the weekend chant "Eddie, Eddie" as to be Calder and Vezina Trophy winner Ed Belfour was not selected to take part in the game (Oilers' Bill Ranford was in his place)

• Blues' Brett Hull scores his 50th Goal in 49 games
• Blues outscore the Wings, 9-4
• Dave Gagnon plays in his 1st of 2 career NHL games; becomes part of a trivia question being the one to allow Hull's 50th Goal
• Goalies: Vincent Riendeau (Blues) and Tim Cheveldae, replaced by Dave Gagnon (Red Wings)

• Game ends in a 3-3 tie
• Glen Hanlon plays in his 3rd last full NHL game
• Goalies: Glen Hanlon (Red Wings) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Canadiens' John LeClair's 1st NHL game
• Montreal defeats Vancouver, 4-2
• Goalies: Troy Gamble (Canucks) and Patrick Roy (Canadiens)

• Rookie phenom Ed Belfour sets a Hawks' goaltender record for most wins in a season
• Belfour, in his sparkling rookie campaign, VS Wayne Gretzky
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Daniel Berthiaume (Kings)

• The Blackhawks defeat the Blues, 6-4
• Pat Jablonski makes his 11th NHL appearance
• Goalies: Pat Jablonski (Blues) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Nords goalie Ron Tugnutt stops 70 of 73 shots (Nords were outshot 73-26) in a 3-3 tie. This included being outshot 25-5 in the 3rd period and 12-2 in the 5 minute Overtime
• Goalies: Ron Tugnutt (Nordiques) and Reggie Lemelin (Bruins)

• Blackhawks win 5-4
• A battle between 2 teams who would meet each other only a couple of weeks later in the first round of the playoffs - Minnesota would go on to upset the President's Trophy winning Blackhawks
• Goalies: Brian Hayward (North Stars) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Mario Lemieux scores all three goals in a 3-1 win over the Flyers
• Missing coverage of Lemieux's 2nd goal - but has highlight
• Pete Peeters' last NHL start - last less that 9 minutes in his next/final game before being replaced by Ken Wregget
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Pete Peeters (Flyers)

• Nordiques' Guy Lafleur's Final NHL Game
• Includes a Guy Lafleur profile segment and pre-game ceremony
• Quebec defeats Montreal 4-1; Canadiens score their only goal with less than 2 minutes left in the game
• Goalies: Andre Racicot (Canadiens) and Ron Tugnutt (Nordiques)

• North Stars defeat the Blackhawks, 4-3 in Overtime to take Game 1 of the series
• Goalies: Jon Casey (North Stars) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Chicago wins 5-2 to even up the series at 1-1
• Goalies: Jon Casey (North Stars) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Blackhawks even the series with a wild 6-5 victory
• Goalies: Ed Belfour, replaced by Dominik Hasek for 10:45, then replaced by Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Jon Casey, replaced by Brian Hayward (North Stars)

• Rookie phenom Eddie Belfour and his 1st overall Blackhawks are eliminated by the North Stars in an upset. The Blackhawks had nearly 40 more points in the standings; the North Stars squeaked into the playoffs in 16th place
• Minnesota tied an NHL playoff record (with the 1980 New York Islanders - VS Philadelphia) with 15 power-play goals in the series. They had a remarkable 54 power-play attempts
• With the North Stars assessed a penalty in the 3rd period, Hawks coach Mike Keenan rolled the dice and called for a measurement of goalie Jon Casey's stick - trying for a two-man advantage. The stick was found to be legal, therefore the Hawks were given a delay of game penalty thus nullifying their power-play opportunity
• It was apparent the Hawks, who were driven to achieve 1st place overall and the President's Trophy, had no gas left when it counted
• The North Stars then eliminated the St. Louis Blues and defending champion Edmonton Oilers before facing the Penguins in the Finals...
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Jon Casey (North Stars)

• The North Stars take Game 1 with a 5-4 victory
• Goalies: Jon Casey (North Stars) and Tom Barrasso (Penguins)

• The Penguins even the series at one game a piece with a 4-1 win
• Goalies: Jon Casey (North Stars) and Tom Barrasso (Penguins)

• Minnesota defeats Pittsburgh, 3-1
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Jon Casey (North Stars)

• Pittsburgh wins 5-3 to even the series once again
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Jon Casey (North Stars)

• The Penguins outscore the North Stars 6-4
• Goalies: Jon Casey, replaced by Brian Hayward (North Stars) and Tom Barrasso, replaced by Frank Pietrangelo (Penguins)

• The late "Badger" Bob Johnson coaches the Penguins (Lemieux/Jagr) to their first Stanley Cup
• Game of the infamous Magnificent Mario goal undressing Jon Casey, en route to an 8-0 blowout
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Jon Casey, relieved by Brian Hayward for a portion (North Stars)

During the 1990-91 season, a short-lived Canadian weekend afternoon TV tradition was born. A weekly program consisting of Original Six teams consisting of team alumni (with the exception of Buffalo in place of Detroit). Each program featured one game, with one episode featuring an All-Star Game

GAMES:

• Boston wins 4-2

• New York defeats Montreal, 3-2

• Buffalo doubles up on Boston, 6-3

• Toronto wins 5-2

• All-Stars wins 2-1

• Wayne Gretzky records 3 Assists in a 4-1 Canada win
• Goalies: Tommy Soderstrom (Sweden) and Bill Ranford (Canada)

• Canada overpowers the Czechs 6-2
• Notable NHL'ers include...
  • Czechoslovakia - Jaromir Jagr, Robert Reichel, Martin Rucinsky, Zigmund Palffy, and Dominik Hasek
  • Canada - Theoren Fleury, Wayne Gretzky, Dale Hawerchuk, Eric Lindros, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, and Bill Ranford

• Canada and USSR settle for a 3-3 tie
• Canada's Eric Lindros plays in front of a bitter Quebec crowd
• Goalies: Bill Ranford (Canada) and Mikhail Shtalenkov (USSR)

• Canada takes Game 1 of the Finals with a 4-1 win
• As Wayne Gretzky continued to prove he was the best player on the planet, U.S.'s Gary Suter made a name for himself by cross-checking The Great One into the boards from behind causing Gretzky to miss the next game due to back spasms. The check also would cause Gretzky's recurring back problems in the early 1990s
• It was the same Gary Suter would be guilty of viciously cross-checking Mighty Ducks' (and Canada's) Paul Kariya just prior to the 1998 Olympics, causing Kariya to miss the tournament. It goes to show just how far some take the Canada/U.S. rivalry...
• Notable NHL'ers include...
  • U.S.A. - Brett Hull, Pat LaFontaine, Mike Modano, Joe Mullen, Jeremy Roenick, Chris Chelios, Brian Leetch, and Mike Richter
  • Canada - Theoren Fleury, Wayne Gretzky, Dale Hawerchuk, Eric Lindros, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, and Bill Ranford

• With Canada having won a physical Game One 4-1, Game 2 saw the U.S. levelling the game 2-2 after a strong 2nd period. In the 3rd period, the U.S. found itself on the Power Play courtesy of a Steve Smith boarding penalty. During that U.S. Power Play, U.S. defenseman Gary Suter mishandled the puck at the blue line allowing Team Canada's Steve Larmer to race free on a shorthanded breakaway and backhand the puck through U.S. goalie Mike Richter's legs for a 3-2 lead. Dirk Graham later added an empty net goal with 42 seconds left to finish the game 4-2
• Team Canada finished the tournament as the first team in history to remain unbeaten throughout a Canada Cup tournament
• Notable NHL'ers include...
  • U.S.A. - Brett Hull, Pat LaFontaine, Mike Modano, Joe Mullen, Jeremy Roenick, Chris Chelios, Brian Leetch, and Mike Richter
  • Canada - Theoren Fleury, Wayne Gretzky, Dale Hawerchuk, Eric Lindros, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, and Bill Ranford

• The NHL celebrates "75th Night" in Chicago, opening their 75th NHL season, complete with both teams wearing their Original Six gear
• Game ends in a 3-3 tie
• Goalies: Tim Cheveldae (Red Wings) and Jimmy Waite (Blackhawks)

• Leafs win 8-5
• Both teams sport their Original Six uniforms
• Allan Bester's final NHL appearance until early 1996 when he resurfaced for a month with the Dallas Stars
• Goalies: Tim Cheveldae, replaced by former Leaf Allan Bester (Red Wings) and Grant Fuhr (Maple Leafs)

• Jets win 3-2
• Goalies: Rick Tabaracci (Jets) and Tim Cheveldae (Red Wings)

• The Penguins go through 3 Sharks goalies en route to an 8-0 victory
• Tom Barrasso was busy stopping 36 shots for the shutout
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Jeff Hackett, replaced by Arturs Irbe to start the 2nd period after sustaining a groin injury, replaced by Brian Hayward after allowing 4 goals on 13 shots

• The Penguins destroy the Maple Leafs, 12-1
• Grant Fuhr was in goal for all 12 Penguins goals (on 32 shots)
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Maple Leafs) and Tom Barrasso (Penguins)

• The Rangers outscore the Capitals, 8-6
• Mike Liut's 5th last NHL game
• Goalies: Mike Richter, replaced by John Vanbiesbrouck (Rangers) and Mike Liut (Capitals)

• Hawks' Dominik Hasek, in just his 8th full NHL game, stops all 21 shots recording his 1st NHL Shutout in a 2-0 win
• Grant Fuhr tends goal for the Leafs

• Consists of all All-Star Weekend "Festivities" from the historic Spectrum: Flyers Oldtimers VS NHL Oldtimers, Skills Competition, and All-Star Game
• Ed Belfour's 1st NHL All-Star Game; Voted as a Starter

• Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, made up of players from republics of the former USSR, wins the Gold Medal at the Albertville Winter Olympics. In a bittersweet gold medal ceremony, with no national flag to raise or anthem to play, Unified Team players stand with tears in their eyes as an Olympic flag is raised in its stead
• Canada receives the Silver and Czechoslovakia claims the Bronze
• Canada's Joe Juneau finished as the tournament's top scorer with 15 points
• Notable players include:
  • Canada - Eric Lindros, Joe Juneau and Sean Burke
  • Unified - Alexei Zhitnik, Darius Kasparaitis, Alexei Kovalev, Alexei Zhamnov and Sergei Zubov

• Jeremy Roenick records his 50th Goal of the season in a 2-1 victory (Roenick's 1st 50 Goal season)
• Hawks and Bruins both sporting their Original Six uni's
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Daniel Berthiaume (Bruins)

• Mario Lemieux records his 1000th NHL point
• Game ends in a 3-3 tie
• Game joined in progress seconds after the intial faceoff
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Tim Cheveldae (Red Wings)

• Blackhawks come out on top, 3-1
• Goalies: Curtis Joseph (Blues) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• The Hawks defeat the Blues, 5-3
• With the win, the Blackhawks begin the "Excellent Eleven" - an NHL record eleven straight playoffs wins
• Goalies: Curtis Joseph (Blues) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Ed Belfour stops 38 of 39 shots to lead the Hawks past the Blues 2-1
• Hawks win the series 4-2
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Curtis Joseph (Blues)

• Geoff Courtnall scores the last 3 Goals in a Canucks 5-0 win to advance
• Goalies: Kirk McLean (Canucks) and Rick Tabaracci (Jets)

• Chicago wins 5-4 to notch their 6th straight win establishing a new franchise playoff record
• Goalies: Tim Cheveldae (Red Wings) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Chicago shuts out Detroit, 1-0
• Brent Sutter scores the lone goal in the 3rd period and the Hawks complete the sweep of the Wings
• Goalies: Tim Cheveldae (Red Wings) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Hawks blow out the Oilers, 8-2
• Goalies: Bill Ranford (Oilers) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Chicago records a 4-2 win
• Goalies: Bill Ranford (Oilers) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Blackhawks claim a 4-3 Overtime win
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Bill Ranford (Oilers)

• Hawks win 5-1 to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals
• Chicago establishes a new NHL playoff record with 11 straight wins
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Bill Ranford (Oilers)

• Pens' Jaromir Jagr beats Ed Belfour for the tying goal late in the 3rd period, setting the stage for Mario Lemieux's game-winner and a 5-4 home victory. This was Jagr's infamous highlight goal where he deked around 3 Blackhawks before sliding the puck behind The Eagle
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Tom Barrasso (Penguins)

• Penguins win 3-1
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Tom Barrasso (Penguins)

• Kevin Stevens scores the game's only goal in a 1-0 battle
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Ron Francis scores at 7:59 of the 3rd period to give the Penguins a 6-5 lead. The Pens then close the door en route to their 2nd consecutive Stanley Cup
• Pens' Mario Lemieux racked up 1 Goal and 2 Assists while Jaromir Jagr collected 1 Goal. Hawks' captain Dirk Graham lead the Hawks charge with an early Natural Hat Trick
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Ed Belfour, replaced by Dominik Hasek (Blackhawks)

• Flyers' phenom Eric Lindros makes his long awaited NHL Debut and scores a Goal
• Goalies: Dominic Roussel (Flyers) and Tom Barrasso (Penguins)

• Inaugural regular season game for the Lightning, Lightning win 6-4 thus getting their 1st ever regular season win
• Chris Kontos scores the first ever Lightning goal (and the first of the game), finishes the game with 4 Goals
• Hawks' Cam Russell scores his 1st NHL goal, a dump-in from center ice with a bad bounce, assist to Belfour; 1st goal by an opposition VS Tampa Bay
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Wendell Young (Tampa Bay)

• Inaugural regular season game for the Senators, Senators win 5-3 thus getting their 1st ever regular season win
• Goalies: Patrick Roy (Canadiens) and Peter Sidorkewicz (Senators)

• Eric Lindros' 1st appearance in Quebec. You can imagine what this game was like...
• Nordiques win 6-3
• Goalies: Dominic Roussel (Flyers) and Ron Hextall (Nordiques)

• Manon Rheaume's 1st action in a Regular Season Professional Hockey Game
• She allowed only a goal by Todd Gillingham while facing 4 total shots in 5:49 of the second period. The goal she allowed came on a breakaway after Gillingham broke out of the penalty box behind the Atlanta defense
• Other notable names include Brent Gretzky, Andrei Trefilov, Ken Hodge Jr, and classic Rick Lanz
• First Intermission feature on Manon, then ironically she starts the Second Period

• Habs fight back from being down 2-0, 3 minutes into the game, to win 3-2 in Overtime
• Goalies: Andre Racicot (Canadiens) and Bob Essensa (Jets)

• First game of a home-and-home series between the teams (see below for the following game)
• Jeremy Roenick, scores 2 Goals, and leads the Blackhawks to a 5-3 win over the Leafs. Greg Gilbert, Brent Sutter and Steve Larmer also score for Chicago. Todd Gill, Mike Krushelnyski and Glenn Anderson score for Toronto
• Chicago doubled up Toronto in the Shots On Goal department, 38-19
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Chicago) and Grant Fuhr (Toronto)

• Second game of a home-and-home series between the teams (see above for the preceding game)
• Michel Goulet, plays the hero on this night scoring 3 Goals, leading the Blackhawks to a 5-3 win over the Leafs. Defensemen Chris Chelios and Steve Smith score the other markers for Chicago while Rob Pearson, Doug Gilmour and Bill Berg score for Toronto
• Chicago outscored Toronto despite being outshot 33-24 in the game
• Rick Wamsley's final NHL game; Wamsley only appeared in 3 games that season
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr, replaced by Rick Wamsley after the 1st period (Toronto) and Ed Belfour (Chicago)

• The last of 11 All-Star Games the Forum would host
• The two teams (Campbells and Wales) combined for 22 goals, the most ever in an NHL All-Star Game - until 2001 (Wales Conference wins 16-6)
• Mike Gartner scores 4 goals, including one gift through Ed Belfour's legs as he came out to play the puck

• Jets' rookie Teemu Selanne scores 4 goals in a 7-6 Jets win (Goals 48, 49, 50 and 51)
• Goalies: Jon Casey (North Stars) and Bob Essensa (Jets)
• NOTE: Missing first 5 minutes of 1st period

• RDS French Video Broadcast along with local Winnipeg's CJOB radio commentary by Kurt Keilback and Don Wittman as audio
• In a 7-4 loss to Quebec, in front of a noisy Winnipeg Arena crowd, Teemu notched his 52nd, 53rd and 54th goals of the season, attaining a hat trick while tying and surpassing Mike Bossy's single-season rookie goal record
• Goalies: Stephane Fiset (Nordiques) and Bob Essensa (Jets)
• Teammate Phil Housley had this to say following the game...
  • "This is the first time in my career that I've had the good fortune of playing with a 50-goal scorer. It's been a real thrill to play with him and it couldn't happen to a better guy. I know that's a cliche, but Teemu really is a good person; a really good guy in the room and a really good guy to hang out with. All this success hasn't gone to his head. I'm really proud to say I play on the same team as him. But God, I keep having to remind myself that he has 65 goals and it's only the second of March."
• Housley played a HUGE role in Selanne successful season as he went on to rack up a league-tying 76 goals on the season (tied with Alexander Mogilny), alongside the NHLs Calder Trophy for Rookie Of The Year
  Click On Teemu Selanne To Hear His Historic 54th Goal

• This matinee game was titled "Finland Day" as the broadcast was shown live back in Finland for them to see Finnish Superstar Jari Kurri and Finnish Rookie Sensation Teemu Selanne
• Coach's Corner took place from Don Cherry's Restaurant in Edmonton
• Keith Tkachuk's 21st Birthday
• The "Finnish Flash" Teemu Selanne scores the 70th Goal of his Remarkable Rookie Season against his Idol Wayne Gretzky and his Kings
• Game ends in a 3-3 tie
• Goalies: Robb Stauber (Kings) and Bob Essensa (Jets)

• Wayne Gretzky scores 3 Goals en route to a 5-4 Kings win; advancing them on to the Stanley Cup Final
• Believed by many to be Wayne Gretzky's single best performance
• Goalies: Kelly Hrudey (Kings) and Felix Potvin (Maple Leafs)

• Kings take Game 1 by a 4-1 score
• Goalies: Kelly Hrudey (Kings) and Patrick Roy (Canadiens)
• NOTE: Condensed 55 minute EuroSport version

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• Following a Kings win in Game 1, the defining moment of the series occurred in Game Two when Marty McSorley was called for an illegal stick penalty. The Canadiens scored, won the game, and took control of the series
• Goalies: Kelly Hrudey (Kings) and Patrick Roy (Canadiens)
• NOTE: Missing first 10 minutes of game, yet still a very rare game nonetheless

• The Canadiens win in it 34 seconds into Overtime, 4-3
• Goalies: Patrick Roy (Canadiens) and Kelly Hrudey (Kings)

• The Canadiens win in Overtime, 3-2
• Goalies: Patrick Roy (Canadiens) and Kelly Hrudey (Kings)

• Habs Win Their 24th Stanley Cup
• Wayne Gretzky's Last Ever Trip To The Finals
• Gretzky lead all Playoff scorers with 40 points in 24 games
• Goalies: Kelly Hrudey (Kings) and Patrick Roy (Canadiens)

• Battle of the Rookie Goaltenders between Devils Martin Brodeur (5th career game) VS Caps Olaf Kolzig (4th career game). Brodeur would go on to win the Calder Trophy as Rookie of the Year that season
• In this, the home season opener for the Caps' 20th season, things turn ugly near the end with Bobby Holik-Craig Berube, Jason Smith-Enrico Ciccone, Keith Acton-Randy McKay, Mike Peluso-Kevin Hatcher, Ken Daneyko-Alan May and Claude Lemieux-Keith Jones all going at it

• The Panthers make their NHL regular season debut
• Game ends in a 4-4 tie
• Goalies: John Vanbiesbrouck (Panthers) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Red Wings win 7-2
• Goaltender Peter Ing makes his Red Wings debut, playing in his 3rd last NHL game
• Guy Hebert in goal for the Ducks

• Game ends at the 41 second mark of Overtime when Jets' Nelson Emerson catches a Belfour clearing attempt behind the goal, fights off Belfour en route around to the side of the net and wraps (throws) it into the corner of the net. Even following a Blackhawks protest and review (?), the goal stands, the only goal of the game as Jets win 1-0
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Blackhawks) and Bob Essensa (Jets)

• Hawks' Jeremy Roenick scores 4 Goals in a 6-3 win
• Goalies: Bob Essensa (Jets) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Widescreen and C quality - Seeking Replacement

• Wayne Gretzky scores NHL career goal #802, passing Gordie Howe's All-Time NHL mark
• Canucks win the game, 6-3
• Goalies: Kirk McLean (Canucks) and Kelly Hrudey (Kings)

• Chicago's last win at Chicago Stadium, 2-1
• Goalies: Robb Stauber (Kings) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• The Red Wings smoke the Canadiens, 9-0
• Bob Essensa stops all 24 shots for his 1st and only shutout as a Red Wing
• Goalies: Patrick Roy, replaced by Ron Tugnutt (Canadiens) and Bob Essensa (Red Wings)

• The Blackhawks Final Regular Season Game at Chicago Stadium
• Maple Leafs spoiled the Hawks' evening with a 6-4 victory
• The game was preceded by a half-hour ceremony in which the four banners commemorating the Blackhawks' retired jerseys were lowered and presented to each player
• Goalies: Damian Rhodes (Maple Leafs) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Hawks win 5-4
• Incredible night for Tony Amonte, scoring 4 Goals for the Hawks
• Goalies: Felix Potvin (Maple Leafs) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Blackhawks score a 4-3 Overtime win
• Goalies: Felix Potvin (Maple Leafs) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Last Ever Hawks Game at Chicago Stadium
• Leafs win a defensive battle, 1-0
• Goalies: Felix Potvin (Maple Leafs) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• The Rangers defeat the Canucks 3-2 to win their 1st Stanley Cup in 54 years
• Goalies: Kirk McLean (Canucks) and Mike Richter (Rangers)

• Aeros win 4-2
• Thunder featuring names including Radek Bonk, Alexei Yashin and Jim Kyte. Scott Arniel and Dave Tippett for the Aeros
• Goalies: Troy Gamble (Aeros) and Manon Rheaume replaced by Pokey Reddick (Thunder)

• During the 1994-95 Owners Lockout, a 3-day tournament was staged in Copps Coliseum, with NHL players split into four teams playing three 20-minute games each day. Games featured no stop time, with exception of goals in the last minute, and faceoffs only after goals
• Teams included: Team Western Canada, Team Ontario, Team Quebec, and Team U.S.A.
• Along with the 6 Round Robin games, 3rd Place Final (Western Canada over U.S.A.), and Championship Final (Quebec over Ontario), a 16 player Breakaway Challenge Tournament was also part of the spectacular - with Jeremy Roenick winning it all

During the labor dispute of the 1994-95 season, Wayne Gretzky and a bunch of friends formed the "Ninety Nine All Stars Tour."

The idea had several purposes - to give the players a chance to keep in shape during the owners' lockout; a chance to take a "hockey vacation" and see other parts of the world, to raise some money for charity and to promote hockey in general.

The Ninety Nines as they were known wore uniforms that bore a distinct resemblance to the 1920s Detroit "candy cane" jersey, except the word "Detroit" on the crest was replaced with the word "Ninety Nine."

ROSTER:

* Goal - Grant Fuhr, Kelly Hrudey
* Defence - Rob Blake, Paul Coffey, Todd Gill, Charlie Huddy, Al MacInnis, Marty McSorley
* Forwards - Wayne Gretzky, Pat Conacher, Russ Courtnall, Sergei Fedorov, Tony Granato, Brett Hull, Steve Larmer, Kirk Muller, Mark Messier, Rick Tocchet, Steve Yzerman
* Coaches - Doug Wilson, Walter Gretzky, Doug Messier

GAMES:

• Vipers defeat the All-Stars 4-3
• Petr Sykora skates for the Vipers
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr and Kelly Hrudey (All-Stars) and Rick Knickle (Vipers)

• All-Stars outscore Jokerit 7-1
• Teemu Selanne rejoins the Jokerit team for the game
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (All-Stars) and Ari Sulander (Jokerit)

• Tampere pulls out a 4-3 Overtime win
• Goalies: Kelly Hrudey (All-Stars) and Manninen (Tampere)

• All-Stars skate to a 9-3 win
• 38-year old Kent Nilsson and Mats Sundin skate for Djurgarden
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (All-Stars) and Tomas Huslund (Djurgarden)

• All-Stars come out on top, 5-2
• Goalies: Kelly Hrudey (All-Stars) and Mikael Sandberg (Vastra)

• Peter Forsberg's 2nd NHL game, a 5-1 Nords win
• Home opener for the Nords and most likely their 1st Televised game of the season (Forsberg's TV Debut)
• Goalies: Olaf Kolzig (Capitals) and Stephane Fiset (Nordiques)

• First game at the United Center
• Blackhawks win 5-1
• Goalies: Bill Ranford, replaced by Fred Brathwaite (Oilers) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Nikolai Khabibulin's makes his 1st NHL Start
• A rookie Paul Kariya looks great and scores too...
• Goalies: Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets) and Guy Hebert (Mighty Ducks)

• Red Wings knock off the Jets, 5-1
• Goalies: Chris Osgood (Red Wings) and Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets)

• Hawks' Ed Belfour outduels Jets' Tim Cheveldae to lead the Hawks to a 3-2 win - Surprised? Uhhhh, no! =)

• Game ends in a 7-7 tie
• Jets' Alexei Zhamnov scores 5 Goals
• Former Jet Arto Blomsten skates for the Kings
• Goalies: Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets) and Kelly Hrudey, replaced by Grant Fuhr (Kings)

• The Jets send their hometown fans away happy with a 4-3 win
• Goalies: Mike Vernon (Red Wings) and Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets)

• What was supposed to have been the last game in Winnipeg, but the infamous "Save The Jets" campaign (unthough later proved unfruitful), continued on too long for the Jets to relocate for the following season; causing the Jets to stay for one more season
• Kings win the game 2-1; Randy Gilhen scoring Winnipeg's goal
• Goalies: Kelly Hrudey (Kings) and Tim Cheveldae (Jets)

• Last ever game in Quebec Nordiques history
• Nords move on to Colorado the next season, trade for Patrick Roy, and go on to win the Stanley Cup. OUCH!
• Goalies: Jocelyn Thibault, replaced by Stephane Fiset (Nordiques) and Mike Richter (Rangers)

• Rangers skate away with a 6-4 win
• Goalies: Tim Cheveldae (Jets) and Mike Richter (Rangers)

• Mario Lemieux scores his 500th NHL Goal, leading his Penguins to a 7-5 win
• Goalies: Tom Barrasso (Penguins) and Tommy Soderstrom (Islanders)

• The Jets edge the Wings, 3-2
• Goalies: Chris Osgood (Red Wings) and Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets)

• Jets' Teemu Selanne ties the game at 5 with 15 seconds left in the 3rd period
• Jets rookie Shane Doan scores his 1st two NHL Goals, including one 39 seconds into Overtime to give the Jets a 6-5 win
• Goalies: Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• Patrick Roy's last game as a Montreal Canadien
• Although playing a shaky game, Canadiens' head coach Mario Tremblay refused to replace Roy. Roy eventually gave up 9 goals on 26 shots before finally being replaced by Pat Jablonski at 11:57 of the 2nd period. Roy, who had been given more freedom under Montreal's previous coaches, became enraged at Tremblay and refused to speak to him. With the game still in progress, Roy told Montreal President Ronald Corey he would never play for the Canadiens again. Roy later told the Montreal press that Tremblay had "humiliated" him by leaving him in net after he gave up five first-period goals on 17 shots and was taking abuse from Montreal fans. He said he would not have asked to be traded if Tremblay hadn't forced him to go back on the ice for the 2nd period. He was especially angry that Tremblay had left him in the game after the 7th goal
• 4 days later, Roy was traded to Colorado, where he went on to lead the Avs to their 1st Stanley Cup - in the franchise's 1st season since leaving Quebec
• Goalies: Mike Vernon (Red Wings) and Patrick Roy, replaced by Pat Jablonski (Canadiens)

• FOX Sports shows off their novel yet short-lived glowing puck technology. Who exactly couldn't follow a black puck on a white ice surface?
• The East defeat the West, 5-4
• Hometown hero Ray Bourque wins MVP honours
• Final NHL All-Star Game featuring a member of the Winnipeg Jets (Teemu Selanne). Two weeks later, Selanne was traded to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks

• Wayne Gretzky's 1st Game with the Blues; Scores a Goal
• Game results in a 2-2 tie
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr (Blues) and Kirk McLean (Canucks)

• Islanders defeat the Jets, 4-2
• The Islanders boasted a load of talent at this time including Todd Bertuzzi, Bryan McCabe, Mathieu Schneider, Zigmund Palffy; all of which the Isles let get away
• Goalies: Eric Fichaud (Islanders) and Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets)

• The Montreal Canadiens play their final game in the historic Montreal Forum
• Canadiens win 4-1
• Goalies: Andy Moog (Stars) and Jocelyn Thibault (Canadiens)
• NOTE: TSN coverage includes extensive pre and post-game ceremonies

• Only Wayne Gretzky VS Mario Lemieux battle with Gretzky as a member of the Blues
• Lemieux lights it up with 5 Goals and 2 Assists in a 8-4 Penguins win
• Goalies: Grant Fuhr, replaced by Jon Casey (Blues) and Ken Wregget (Penguins)

• Red Wings defeat the Jets, 5-2
• Goalies: Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets) and Chris Osgood (Red Wings)

• Jets Last Ever Regular Season Home Game
• Jets win 5-3
• Jets' Keith Tkachuk scores his 50th Goal of the season into an empty net with 0.5 seconds remaining in the game
• Jets clinch a playoff spot with the victory
• Goalies: Byron Dafoe (Kings) and Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets)

• Also includes:
  • Legacy Of Greatness: A Tribute To The Winnipeg Jets (CKND) - 30 mins
    • Memories, Stories and Detailed Timeline of the History of the Winnipeg Jets (1972-1996)
    • Aired just prior to the Kings/Jets game

• Red Wings win 4-1
• Goalies: Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets) and Chris Osgood (Red Wings)

• Red Wings shut out the Jets, 4-0
• Goalies: Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets) and Chris Osgood (Red Wings)

• The Jets defeat the Wings, 4-1
• Goalies: Mike Vernon (Red Wings) and Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets)

• Red Wings dominate the Jets, 6-1, to go up 3-1 in the series heading back to Detroit
• Goalies: Mike Vernon (Red Wings) and Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets)

• Although outshot 52-19, the Jets manage to avoid elimination and get a 3-1 win over the Wings
• An absolute clinic put on by Jets goalie Nikolai Khabibulin
• The Jets' last ever win
• Game cuts off after Jets score empty net goal with 42.1 seconds left to lead 3-1
• Goalies: Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets) and Chris Osgood (Red Wings)

• Jets Last Ever NHL Game
• Going into their last ever playoff run, the Jets' last regular season game took them to Anaheim. A win would have given them 4'th place and home ice advantage in the first round but being the way the Jets always were, they lost, placing them in 8'th to face the Red Wings. Although they took the Wings to 6 games, nobody expected the Jets to win
• Goalies: Mike Vernon (Red Wings) and Nikolai Khabibulin (Jets)
• The true irony lies that the Colorado Avalance won the 1996 Stanley Cup, the other Canadian team who had moved (from Quebec) within that same time period
  (One year earlier when the Jets were projected to as well)

• Theoren Fleury plays the hero as he scores at 19:47 of the 2nd Overtime period, sending Canada to the Final with a 3-2 win
• Goalies: Curtis Joseph (Canada) and Tommy Salo (Sweden)

• Brett Hull, who received much heat from the Canadian crowd for his playing with the Americans, leads the US team with a 2 Goal performance, en route to a 5-2 win and thus a birth in the Final VS Canada
• Goalies: Andrei Trefilov (Russia) and Mike Richter (USA)

• Steve Yzerman, who was cut from two previous Canada Cup teams and apparently "barely" made this squad, catapults Canada to a 4-3 victory with a rising wrist shot at 10:37 of Overtime
• Goalies: Curtis Joseph (Canada) and Mike Richter (USA)

• The Americans smack Canada 5-2 at the Molson Centre to force a Sudden Death Game 3 for the World Cup
• Goalies: Curtis Joseph (Canada) and Mike Richter (USA)

• USA's Brett Hull ties the score at 16:42 of the 3rd period on an inspired or bizarre over-his-back deflection that a video review determined was not a high stick. This took the momentum out of the Canadians' sails who allowed 3 more goals (Empty Netter followed by yet one more with Curtis Joseph back between the pipes) within the next 3 minutes to lose the game 5-2 and thus the series
• Goalies: Curtis Joseph (Canada) and Mike Richter (USA)
  • Martin Brodeur very briefly saw action for Canada in the middle of the 2nd period
• 4 of 6 spots on the All-Star Team were occupied by Americans (Mike Richter, Chris Chelios, Brett Hull, John LeClair) while Mike Richter was Tournament MVP

• Wayne Gretzky's faces off against Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne in his 1st EVER game as a New York Ranger
• Game played in Las Vegas, NV - Home of the Las Vegas Thunder. Ongoing problems with the ice during the game
• Gretzky and Mark Messier together again...

• First Ever IHL Manitoba Moose Home Game
• Pro hockey is back in the 'Peg after the Jets' departure the previous spring
• Goalies: Parris Duffus (Thunder) and Vincent Riendeau (Moose)

• A Rookie Pro Sergei Samsonov and the Vipers light up the Moose 8-1
• Last 5 minutes of 2nd period and complete 3rd period/post-game
• 100 mins in all

• Tape also includes...
  • "Rinkside" - December 1996 episode - 25 mins
    • Rick Hodge and Gord Stellick run down highlights from the best AHL games of the week, the future stars of the game

• Ed Belfour plays his 3rd last game as a Blackhawk, before being traded to San Jose
• Game results in a 5-5 tie
• No commercials or intermissions, just the action
• Goalies: Mike Vernon (Red Wings) and Ed Belfour (Blackhawks)

• This Wings/Avalanche matchup at the time was one of the hottest rivalries in the NHL, stemming from the Avalanche's Claude Lemieux's vicious hit from behind on Detroit's Kris Draper during the 1996 playoffs. This game marked Lemieux's return to Detroit for the first time since the hit, and thus the Wings sought revenge. What ensued were 39 penalties for 148 minutes, 18 fighting majors and two game misconducts. Detroit winger Darren McCarty battered Lemieux, and goalies Mike Vernon and Patrick Roy squared off at center ice (game delayed after this as Roy was received stiches and Vernon needed to get his equipment in order). In the end, Detroit won 6-5 in overtime on a goal scored by McCarty
• Mike Vernon recorded his 300th career win. Later that season, Vernon played a key role in the Red Wings' first of two back to back Stanley Cups (first Cup since 1955), and himself landing the Conn Smythe Trophy as Playoff MVP along the way
• Sergei Fedorov plays defense

• Final game in the history of the Hartford Whalers, moving to Carolina to become the Hurricanes
• Whalers win their final game, 2-1
• Goalies: Rick Tabaracci, replaced by Jason Muzzatti (Lightning) and Sean Burke (Whalers)

• Devils' goaltender Martin Brodeur becomes just the second National Hockey League goaltender (Ron Hextall being the first) to score a goal in the postseason, when his clearing shot into an empty Montreal net secured a 5-2 New Jersey victory
• Goalies: Jocelyn Thibault (Canadiens) and Martin Brodeur (Devils)

• Mario Lemieux's Last Home Game Before Initial Retirement
• Lemieux scores a breakaway goal on his last shift
• Penguins win the game, 4-1
• Includes the Mario Lemieux Press Conference following the game
• Goalies: Garth Snow (Flyers) and Ken Wregget (Penguins)

• Dale Hawerchuk's Last NHL Game
  • With less than a minute to go in the second period, Flyers defenseman Janne Niinimaa sends a sucker pass up the middle to Dale Hawerchuk -- who gets knocked into next week by Vladimir Konstantinov at center ice
• The Wings go on to win the game 6-1, en route to a sweep for the Cup
• Goalies: Ron Hextall (Flyers) and Mike Vernon (Red Wings)

• First with the North America VS World format

• The only time they played each other
• Canada Won! =)

• Dominik Hasek VS Patrick Roy
• Dominik Hasek shuts down a favored Canadian squad, leading the Czechs to a 2-1 win en route to the Gold Medal

• Artem Tschoubarov's 2nd goal of the game at 5:13 of Overtime gave Russia a thrilling 3-2 win over Canada, allowing Russia to capture the Gold on Canadian ice. Tschoubarov sent a lightning snap shot from the left faceoff circle past the glove hand of Canadian goalie Roberto Luongo (who played sensational) to bring a sudden end to the match
• Aside from Luongo, other notable Canadians included Brad Stuart, Simon Gagne and Brendan Morrow

• Wayne Gretzky's Last All-Star Game
• Gretzky gathered 1 Goal and 2 Assists in an 8-6 North America win over the World
• Gretzky was awarded his 3rd All-Star Game MVP Award

• The same opponent the Maple Leafs hosted to open the building on November 12, 1931 (a 2-1 Chicago win), Chicago visits in this, the final game at Maple Leaf Gardens
• Chicago wins this one too, 6-2
• No pre-game ceremonies as were broadcast on CBC
• Goalies: Jocelyn Thibault (Blackhawks) and Curtis Joseph (Maple Leafs)

• The Penguins shut out the Flyers, 4-0
• Ron Hextall appears in his 3rd last NHL game
• Goalies: Ron Hextall (Flyers) and Peter Skudra (Penguins)

• Wayne Gretzky's Last Game
• Penguins win the game, 2-1 in Overtime
• Goalies: Mike Richter (Rangers) and Tom Barrasso (Penguins)
• The NHL Retires #99

• Also includes...
  • Gretzky Footage only the CBC can offer
  • Segments and features from FOX and TSN as well
  • Candid post-game CBC studio interview with Wayne, Gretzky shows his class by granting CBC this privilege

• The Sabres take Game 1, winning 3-2 in Overtime
• Goalies: Dominik Hasek (Sabres) and Ed Belfour (Stars)

• The Sabres win Game 4, by a 2-1 score
• Ed Belfour faces only 18 Sabre shots in the loss
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Stars) and Dominik Hasek (Sabres)

• Stars win their 1st Stanley Cup after Brett Hull's controversial sixth period "in the crease" goal
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Stars) and Dominik Hasek (Sabres)

• Final Overtime Period Only and Post-Game Celebrations/Interviews
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Stars) and Dominik Hasek (Sabres)

• The Penguins win, 9-3
• A Jaromir Jagr classic seeing him score 3 Goals and 4 Assists, a new personal record
• Roberto Luongo plays in just his 9th NHL game
• Goalies: Roberto Luongo (Panthers) and Jean-Sebastien Aubin (Penguins)

• Gretzky celebration prior to game

• Grant Fuhr's Last Game
• Fuhr started the 3rd period in place of injured goalie Fred Brathwaite, allowing 2 goals in 7 shots to lose 6-3 in the Flames' last regular season game
• Oilers' goalie Mike Minard records his 1st NHL win

• Mike Modano plays the hero in the 3rd Overtime period, winning the game 1-0
• Ed Belfour stops all 48 shots while Martin Brodeur stops 40 out of 41
• The longest game to stand at 0-0 in Stanley Cup history

• Jason Arnott beats Stars' goaltender Eddie Belfour in the 2nd Overtime period to clinch the Cup for the Devils
• Goalies: Martin Brodeur (Devils) and Ed Belfour (Stars)
• NOTE: Missing first 4 minutes of game

• Manitoba Moose's Home Opener In Their Last IHL Season
• "Moose" Johan Hedberg tends goal for the Moose in this, his "Season Of Discovery"

• With a Peter Forsberg OT goal, Patrick Roy earns his 448th career win, passing legend Terry Sawchuk and in doing so, becomes the NHL's All-Time Win Leader
• Goalies: Patrick Roy (Avalanche) and Olaf Kolzig (Capitals)

• Mario Lemieux's 1st Game Back From Retirement
• In Mario's 1st ever NHL game, he scored a goal on his 1st shift. In this, the 1st game of his "second" career of sorts, he recorded an assist on his 1st shift 33 seconds in on a much controverial net-off-the-magnets goal. Lemieux finished the game with 1 Goal and 2 Assists
• Penguins handle the Leafs with a 5-0 win
• Goalies: Curtis Joseph (Maple Leafs) and Garth Snow (Penguins)
• Also included are comeback speculation clips, Mario Lemieux news conference announcing his attempted comeback, Top 10 Mario career highlights, TSN's "The Numbers" analysis point projections and how it would affect Mario's overall career numbers, as well as post-game Interview clips with Mario, Penguins teammates and game highlights

• Hockey's answer to the "Truman Show", ISO technology follows Penguins' Mario Lemieux during an entire game
• Bruins win the game, 5-2
• Goalies: Garth Snow (Penguins) and Byron Dafoe (Bruins)

• The Last Ever IHL All-Star Game
• Defending Turner Cup Champions the Chicago Wolves, defeated the IHL All-Star Team in a 4-0 shutout. Wendell Young, Richard Shulmistra, and Rick DiPietro all combined for the 1st and only IHL All-Star Game shutout
• TV Broadcast was also an Internet "Webcast", complete with cameras in dressing rooms, referee's room and mics on the players/coaches

• Avs' Joe Sakic VS Peter Forsberg on Colorado ice in the North America VS The World format
• Game saw a record 26 goals scored, with North America coming out on top 14-12
• U.S.A. line of Tony Amonte, Doug Weight and Bill Guerin dominated, collecting 6 goals and 7 assists - Guerin claimed MVP Honours

• Red Wings skate away with a 6-4 win
• Miikka Kiprusoff makes his first real NHL appearance, replacing Evgeni Nabokov and playing 39 minutes (3rd NHL appearance - first 2 were near 14 mins and the other a mere 38 seconds)
• Manny Legace in goal for the Wings
• Goalies: Manny Legace (Red Wings) and Evgeni Nabokov, replaced by Miikka Kiprusoff (Sharks)

• Red Wings shut out the Rangers, 6-0
• Rangers' netminder Kirk McLean plays in his 2nd last NHL game, replacing Guy Hebert half way through (Hebert's 8th last NHL game as well)
• Chris Osgood records the shutout in goal for the Wings

• Manitoba Moose's Last Ever Regular Season Game in the IHL
• Moose win 3-0
• NOTE: Missing final 7 minutes of 3rd period (no goals scored in that time)

• Orlando wins the 56th and final Turner Cup Championship in this, the last ever International Hockey League game
• Also includes a 20 minute pre-game show which summarizes the series to date

• Colorado wins the Stanley Cup in a 3-1 game; a matchup between the 2 best regular season teams
• Ray Bourque wins his 1st Stanley Cup in 22 seasons
• Bourque's last NHL game as he retires in the off-season following this, his 1st Cup win
• Goalies: Martin Brodeur (Devils) and Patrick Roy (Avalanche)
• Includes pre-game and post-game coverage

• Tape also includes...
  • Ray Bourque Retirement Press Conference - June 27, 2001 - 45 mins (CTV Sportsnet/The Score)
    • Bourque gives his statement, his thanks and answers questions from the media
    • Avs GM Pierre Lacroix shows his appreciation for Bourque achievements by allowing Bourque's #77 to be the 1st number retired by the team

• Eric Lindros' 1st game against his former team. Scores the Ranger's 1st goal of the game in a 4-2 Rangers win
• Flyers Jeremy Roenick scores a highlight reel goal on Mike Richter
• Goalies: Roman Cechmanek (Flyers) and Mike Richter (Rangers)

• Deviating from the standard ho-hum "Old Timers Game" as part of All-Star Weekend, the NHL featured a game involving 25 young players, all under 25 and still in their entry-level contract
• The NHL's youngest player, Ilya Kovalchuk scored 6 goals as his team, Team Melrose defeated Team Fox, 13-7
• Other budding superstars in the game included: Martin Havlat, Pavel Datsyuk, Mike Comrie, Dany Heatley, Brad Richards, Alex Tanguay, Kristian Huselius, Marian Gaborik and Roberto Luongo
  Also includes the 2002 NHL All-Star Skills Competition

• The first on-ice meeting of the superpowers on American soil since the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid (Miracle On Ice)
• Brett Hull scores late in the game to draw a 2-2 tie preventing the United States from suffering its first Olympic hockey defeat on American soil since 1932 in Lake Placid

• Russia and USA give it another go with the winner moving on to face Canada in the Gold Medal game (Canada advanced after trouncing 8th seed Belarus after they upset top seed Sweden)
• With USA leading 3-0 after 2 periods, Russia come back with 2 quick goals to start the 3rd but are unable to get the equalizer, allowing the USA to move on creating a North American Olympic Final
• USA's American soil undefeated streak continues...

• A true classic; USA's most historically anticipated game since 1980's Miracle On Ice, Canada's most anticipated since 1972 Summit Series
• Canada going into the 3rd period with a 3-2 lead fueled by solid goaltending of Martin Brodeur, breaks it open late and wins 5-2
• 50 years to the day since Canada won its last Gold Medal in Olympic hockey
• USA's American soil undefeated streak ends at 21-0-3, 1st loss since 1932 VS Canada

• Tape includes the game plus extensive pre and post game coverage, 5+ hours worth

• Red Wings win the Stanley Cup
• Scotty Bowman wins his 9th Stanley Cup while Dominik Hasek wins his 1st; both retire within days after. Hasek's retirement only lasts one season as he returns to the Red Wings to start the 2003-2004 season
• Goalies: Arturs Irbe (Hurricanes) and Dominik Hasek (Red Wings)

• Unleashing 7 years of pent-up disdain for their archrivals, Quebec City fans booed lustily from the moment the Habs took the ice in the 1st NHL game played in Quebec City since 1995
• However, the undefeated Canadiens got 25 saves from Jose Theodore to beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-1
• Avalanche sported vintage blue Nordiques jerseys for the occassion

• Ed Belfour, in his regular season debut as a Maple Leaf, stops 33 shots to shutout out the Pens 6-0
• The Penguins hold a Moment of Silence before the game for former Pens coach Herb Brooks, who died in a car accident that past summer
• Game includes an extensive pre-game show
• Goalies: Ed Belfour (Maple Leafs) and Johan Hedberg (Penguins)

• Leafs' Ed Belfour joins one of the oldest rivalries in pro sports with the first regular season Leafs/Canadiens battle
• Belfour and Jeff Hackett shine in a 2-2 tie
• Before the game, former Habs goalie and current Leafs president Ken Dryden, was honoured in a tribute to the 1977-78 Canadiens, who lost only eight regular-season games en route to winning the Stanley Cup

• The Rangers skate to a 5-1 win
• Mike Richter's last NHL game
• Goalies: Tommy Salo (Oilers) and Mike Richter (Rangers)
• NOTE: Missing 3rd period - No scoring occurred (Rangers' Rem Murray scores with 1.1 seconds left in the 2nd to make the score 5-1)

• Canada's biggest question mark, goaltending, turned out to be its greatest strength, but it wasn't enough to win Gold. For the second straight year, Canada was beaten in the Gold medal game by Russia, this time falling 3-2 after taking a 2-1 lead into the 3rd period
• Still, goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury was named the tournament's top goaltender and and most valuable player. Six months later, the Pittsburgh Penguins selected him 1st overall in the NHL Entry Draft
• Canada had another well-balanced team, with scoring coming from just about everybody - especially on its top-ranked powerplay unit. Defenceman Carlo Colaiacovo was the leading scorer with a goal and nine assists, while Scottie Upshall and Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau had four goals each
• In the end, the Russians just had too much depth and too much firepower and finished with a perfect 6-0 record. Igor Grigorenko and Yuri Trubachev led the team in scoring with 10 points each. More importantly, they both scored in the 3rd period of the Gold medal game, erasing the Canadian lead and giving Russia the championship
• Equally intriguing was 17-year-old phenom Alexander Ovechkin, who scored a hat-trick in his first game and finished tied for the tournament lead with six goals
• Goalies: Marc-Andre Fleury (Canada) and Andrei Medvedev (Russia)

• Kings win 5-3
• Mario Lemieux records 2 Goals and 1 Assist
• Cristobal Huet's 2nd NHL game; Played 44 mins after relieving Jamie Storr (Huet only played 15 mins in his NHL debut)
• Goalies: Jamie Storr, replaced by Cristobal Huet (Kings) and Johan Hedberg (Penguins)

• Andrew Brunette wins it in Overtime 3-2 for the Wild,
  eliminating the favored Avs
• Patrick Roy's final NHL game
• Goalies: Manny Fernandez (Wild) and
  Patrick Roy (Avalanche)

• Kings shut out the Penguins 3-0
• Marc-Andre Fleury makes his NHL debut
• Goalies: Cristobal Huet (Kings) and Marc-Andre Fleury (Penguins)

Edmonton and the NHL make hockey history as over 57,000 fans packed Commonwealth Stadium (Outdoor Football Stadium - Home Of CFL's Edmonton Eskimos) in frigid temperatures to watch MegaStars (Alumni) and NHL Regular Season contests between the Montreal Canadiens and Edmonton Oilers MegaStars Rosters: EDMONTON OILERS - Grant Fuhr, Bill Ranford, Kevin Lowe, Charlie Huddy, Paul Coffey, Lee Fogolin, Randy Gregg, Craig Muni, Jeff Beukeboom, Marty McSorley, Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Ken Linseman, Jari Kurri, Glenn Anderson, Esa Tikkanen, Craig Simpson, Dave Hunter, Dave Semenko, Ron Chipperfield, Dave Lumley MONTREAL CANADIENS - Steve Penney, Richard Sevigny, Larry Robinson, Guy Lapointe, Gaston Gingras, J.J. Daigneault, Craig Ludwig, Steve Shutt, Mark Napier, Guy Lafleur, Benoit Brunet, Guy Carbonneau, Stephane Richer, Yvon Lambert, Bobby Smith, Chris Nilan, Russ Courtnall, Kirk Muller, Lucien Deblois, Cam Connor, Claude Lemieux Oilers Alumni win 2-0; Gretzky is held off the scoresheet Wayne Gretzky's 14 year old daughter Paulina sang Sarah McLaughlin's "I Will Remember You" before the game Heritage Classic Game In the Heritage Classic Game, the Canadiens egde the Oilers 4-3; Richard Zednik and Yanic Perreault score 2 goals each Other notes on the day... Gretzky, 42, who retired in 1999 and last appeared in a game in an Oilers sweater in 1988, doesn't play oldtimers' games. He agreed to this one because, "I just thought that probably it was only fitting that I play one more game and my kids had an opportunity to see me in an Oiler uniform." Will he play another? "This will be my last game," he said Alumni players combined for a total of 129 Stanley Cup rings

• A freak goal credited to Patrick O'Sullivan of the OHL's Mississauga IceDogs with 5:12 remaining capped a U.S. comeback in a 4-3 win over Canada, claiming U.S.A.'s 1st ever Gold Medal in World Junior play. Canadian goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury attempted to clear the puck but it bounced off defenceman Braydon Coburn and into the net despite a wild lunge from Fleury. It was O'Sullivan's second goal of the period as the Americans scored three unanswered goals in the final 20 minutes to stun the Canadians
• Canada's Goldless World Junior streak continues, last winning Gold in 1997 VS the U.S.A.
• Other notable game participants include...
  • Canada - Dion Phaneuf, Jeff Carter, Anthony Stewart, and 16 year-old phenom Sidney Crosby
  • U.S.A. - Ryan Suter, Zach Parise (Tournament MVP), and goaltender Al Montoya

• Flyers defeat the Caps, 5-1
• Antero Niittymaki makes his NHL debut; Records his 1st win in the process
• Goalies: Olaf Kolzig (Capitals) and Antero Niittymaki (Flyers)
• NOTE: Missing first 3 minutes of 1st period

• The Flyers posted a 5-3 victory over the Senators here on March 5. It was brawl-filled contest that featured the teams combining for an NHL-record 419 penalty minutes. Officials needed about 90 minutes after the game ended to sort the penalties. The previous record for penalty minutes was 406 by the Minnesota North Stars and Boston Bruins in 1981. The Flyers had 213 minutes and Ottawa had 206
• After the game, Philadelphia general manager Bob Clarke, captain of the Broad Street Bullies teams of the 1970s, went toward Ottawa's dressing room, but was stopped by Flyers officials. He was after Senators' coach Jacques Martin who he accused of sending out his goons to go after Philly's skilled players
• The bad blood from this game brewed from their last matchup where Senators' Martin Havlat viciously cross-checked Flyers' Mark Recchi in the face
• Positive notes from this game include Flyers' Tony Amonte's 1,000th NHL game, Flyers Danny Markov scoring the 10,000th goal in Flyers' history and Alexei Zhamnov's scoring his 700th NHL point
• This is recorded from the original broadcast of the game, not the March 10 Comcast rebroadcast
• Goalies: Patrick Lalime (Senators) and Robert Esche (Flyers). Following their fight, they were replaced by Martin Prusek (Senators) and Sean Burke (Flyers)

• The infamous Todd Bertuzzi sucker punch on Avs' Steve Moore,
  as revenge for Moore's open-ice shoulder hit to the head
  of Canucks' Markus Naslund less than a month prior
• Heated, brawl-filled game
• Avalanche blow out the Canucks 9-2
• Goalies: David Aebischer (Avalanche) and Dan Cloutier
  replaced by Johan Hedberg (Canucks)

• Tampa Bay win their 1st Stanley Cup
• While both goaltenders, Nikolai Khabibulin (TB) and Miikka Kiprusoff were unbelieveable throughout the playoffs, so too were forwards Brad Richards (TB) and Jarome Iginla. Richards took home the Conn Smythe as playoff MVP
• Also includes 30 minute pre-game show and features on the game on "The National" following the broadcast

• Alexander Ovechkin scores a goal, throws a big hit, and gets in a disagreement with teammate Miro Satan
  in his 1st test VS NHL talent
• Despite being outshot 27-15 by the Slovaks, the Russians came away with a 5-2 victory

• The Czechs, following an upset (6-1 blowout) win over Sweden, faced the favorite Canadian squat
• The Czechs outshot (and many say outplayed) Canada 40-24 but Canadian goaltender Roberto Luongo was sensational, playing in his sole game of the tournament, subbing for an injured Martin Brodeur
• Vincent Lecavalier scored at 3:45 of Overtime to give Canada a 4-3 victory

• Finland eliminated the defending World Cup Champs U.S.A. (1996) in the other Semi-Final game, earning a spot against Canada in the Final
• Finland goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff, following up on a sensational Stanley Cup drive with the Flames, continued his stellar play leading the dark horse Finland to the Final
• In the end, Canada came out on top 3-2
• Despite his 0.75 Goals-Against Average and .970 Save Percentage, Canada's Martin Brodeur was bypassed in consideration for World Cup MVP; Vincent Lecavalier, who lead Canada in scoring, took home the honours

• A new era of hockey in Manitoba is born as the Manitoba Moose play their 1st game in the MTS Centre - moving from the historic Winnipeg Arena
• Lee Goren, Peter Sarno, Kirill Koltsov and Kevin Bieksa each had two-point nights and Wade Flaherty stopped 36 shots as the Moose defeated the "Baby Leafs" 4-2
• The game had it all - a fight, the first two Moose goals disallowed, in addition to an exciting game between two fired up teams playing a part in history
• Moose captain Nolan Baumgartner scored the 1st ever goal in the new Arena, a Power Play marker initialized by a smooth pass from Peter Sarno
• The Moose built up a 4-0 lead until Leafs' bluechipper Kyle Wellwood scored a great goal to get the Leafs on the board, 7 minutes into the 3rd period

• Also includes a number of local news segments on the historic game

• A Celebration of Hockey - Igor Larionov's Farewell Game
• Team Russia (consisting of the best Russian players ranging from Fetisov to Kovalchuk) taking on a Team World made up of Larionov's best NHL teammates throughout his career. In the 3rd period, Larionov Steve Yzerman switched teams. The game was attended by the Russian Prime Minister, who awarded Larionov with an Award of Friendship. Farewell, Igor!

• World Roster: Martin Brodeur, Chris Chelios, Mathieu Dandenault, Kris Draper, Steve Duchesne, Patrik Elias, Jiri Fischer, Scott Gomez, Tomas Holmstrom, Martin Lapointe, Nicklas Lidstrom, Kirk Maltby, Darren McCarty, Chris Osgood, Sandis Ozolinsh, Jay Pandolfo, Luc Robitaille, Brendan Shanahan, Aaron Ward, Ray Whitney, Steve Yzerman, Henrik Zetterberg
• Russian Roster: Pavel Bure, Pavel Datsyuk, Sergei Fedorov, Slava Fetisov, Sergei Gonchar, Valeri Kamensky, Nikolai Khabibulin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Slava Kozlov, Maxim Kuznetsov, Igor Larionov, Danny Markov, Alexander Mogilny, Evgeni Nabokov, Sergei Samsonov, Oleg Tverdovsky, Alexei Zhamnov

• Canada beats the Czech Republic 3-1 with a smothering defence that limited the shots on goaltender Jeff Glass to 11 while registering 42 of their own
• Includes a 30 minute TSN pre-game program
• Notable game participants include...
  • Canada - Dion Phaneuf, Jeff Carter, Anthony Stewart, Ryan Getzlaf, and Sidney Crosby
  • Czech Republic - Marek Schwarz, and Rostislav Olesz

• Russia's Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin each scored two goals and an assist as Russia defeated the host United States 7-2
• Though the victory avenged Russia's 5-4 loss to the U.S. in the round robin, the game came to a rather ugly ending as Ovechkin and Malkin each took turns taunting the American team and the fans after their second goals - both empty netters - of the night
• U.S.A. notables include...
  • Ryan Suter, Patrick O'Sullivan, Robbie Schremp, and Phil Kessel

• The Canadian Junior Men's Hockey Team put on a dominating display to win the Gold Medal with a 6-1 win
• After finishing a heartbreaking second the last three years in this tournament, Canada left nothing in doubt by scoring four times in the second period for a five-goal lead heading into the final 20 minutes
• Canada's Patrice Bergeron was named MVP while teammate Dion Phaneuf was chosen the top defenceman. Both were named to the All-Star Team, too, along with Canadian Jeff Carter and Russia's Alexander Ovechkin
• This Canadian Junior Team was the country's best in a long time and arguably the best ever. The NHL lockout combined with spike in talent in Canadian players born in 1985 made the 2005 team a formidable one. Players who might not have otherwise been available to the Canadian team from their NHL clubs were still playing in the junior ranks
• Canada outscored the opposition 32-5 during the round-robin portion of this tournament to finish first in Pool B. A 3-1 semifinal win over the Czech Republic (see above), in which Glass faced only 11 shots and fewer quality scoring chances, sent Canada to the final of this tournament for the fourth straight year
• Includes a 30 minute TSN pre-game program and post game interviews/highlights etc (4 hours in total)

• Legends Roster: Donald Audette, Dan Bouchard, Marc Bureau, Lucien DeBlois, Gilbert Delorme, Marcel Dionne, Andre Dupont, Normand Dupont, Bernie Federko, Michel Goulet, Denis Potvin, Craig Muni, Stephane Matteau, Sergio Momesso, Gaston Therrien
• Canadiens Roster: Benoit Brunet, Guy Carbonneau, Shayne Corson, Gaston Gingras, Rick Green, Rejean Houle, Guy Lafleur, Yvon Lambert, Rod Langway, Craig Ludwig, Pete Mahovlich, Pierre Mondou, Chris Nilan, Stephane Richer, Larry Robinson, Denis Savard, Richard Sevigny
• Michel Bergeron (Legends) and Jacques Demers (Canadiens) act as head coaches. Bobby Hull and Frank Mahovlich serve as ambassadors. Denis Morel and Ron Fournier as game's officials
• All ticket proceeds went directly to the Montreal Canadiens Children's Foundation

• Sid "The Kid" Crosby, collects 3 Goals and 2 Assists in a 7-4 Oceanic win, advancing them to face the hosting London Knights in the Final

• The London Knights, coming off an incredible record-breaking season, take home the Memorial Cup in a 4-0 win

• Caps' Alexander Ovechkin records a hat trick as the Caps defeat the Pens, 4-3
• Pens' Sidney Crosby did not play
• Interviews with Ovechkin in Intermission and after game

• Penguins phenom Sidney Crosby plays his 1st NHL game and records his 1st NHL point with an Assist
• Devils win the game 5-1
• Goalies: Jocelyn Thibault (Penguins) and Martin Brodeur (Devils)

• Washington defeats Columbus 3-2
• Caps' rookie Alexander Ovechkin scores 2 goals in his regular season debut
• Goalies: Pascale Leclaire (Blue Jackets) and Olaf Kolzig (Capitals)

• The NHL returns to action following their one season lockout
• Wayne Gretzky debuts as Head Coach of the Coyotes
• Todd Bertuzzi returns to the NHL following suspension for his attack on Avs' Steve Moore
• Coyotes' Keith Ballard scores his 1st NHL goal
• Canucks defeat the Coyotes, 3-2
• Goalies: Curtis Joseph (Coyotes) and Dan Cloutier (Canucks)
• Includes closing moments of Ottawa Senators VS Toronto Maple Leafs game which preceded this game on TSN, final minute of Overtime and Shootout (1st Shootout in NHL History), in addition to a few hockey related commmercials sprinkled througout

• Penguins Sidney Crosby scores his 1st NHL Goal and picks up 2 Assists in a 7-6 Overtime loss to Boston
• Goalies: Hannu Toivonen (Bruins) and Sebastien Caron (Penguins)

• Nashville wins 5-4, after the newly implemented Overtime Shootout
• Brett Hull's last NHL game
• Coyotes' goaltender David LeNeveu's 3rd NHL game
• Goalies: Chris Mason (Predators) and David LeNeveu (Coyotes)

• Top 2006 NHL Draft Picks Phil Kessel (Minnesota) and Jonathan Toews (North Dakota) go head-to-head
• Kessel's Golden Gophers coming out on top 4-3
• Goalies: Kellen Briggs (Minnesota) and Jordan Parise replaced by Philippe Lamoureux (North Dakota)

• Mario Lemieux's Final NHL Game
• Penguins lose 4-3
• Lemieux and new franchise savior Sidney Crosby assist on Pittsburgh's 3rd goal, scored by Zigmund Palffy, who announced his retirement later that season
• Goalies: Martin Biron (Sabres) and Marc-Andre Fleury (Penguins)

• A tie would have been enough, but a physical Canadian team got the win against the United States at the World Junior Hockey Championship to earn a bye to the Semi-Final
• Canadian captain Kyle Chipchura scored an empty-net winner with 33 seconds remaining in the entertaining game for the 3-2 victory. A tie wasn't enough for the U.S. to finish first in Group A so the Americans pulled goaltender Cory Schneider for an extra attacker in an attempt to get the win
• American defenceman Jack Johnson elbowed Canadian forward Steve Downie in the head after Chipchura's goal. Downie went down and Johnson, the 3rd overall pick in the 2005 NHL Draft by the Carolina Hurricanes, was given a major and a game misconduct. The International Ice Hockey Federation said after the game that it will not review the incident further and Johnson would receive no additional punishment
• Goalies: Justin Pogge (Canada) and Cory Schneider (USA)

• Michael Blunden scored twice, and Steve Downie, Blake Comeau and Kyle Chipchura added singles, while Canadian goaltender Justin Pogge stopped 35 shots for his 3rd shutout as Canada blanked Russia 5-0 to win its second straight World Junior Title
• The back-to-back Titles are the first for Canada since 1996 and 1997, when the country capped a run of five straight. It was also Canada's 12th title since the tournament's inception in 1974
• Despite having a younger and less-experienced roster compared to last year - defenceman Cam Barker was the only returning player from the 2005 team - head coach Brent Sutter's no-nonsense philosophy of hard work and attention to detail shone throughout the tournament. The end result was impressive. Sutter improved to 12-0 in his two years at the helm of the National team, making him the winningest Canadian coach in the history of the tournament
• An aggressive defence saw Canada allow just six goals in six games, with only one at even strength
• After blanking Finland in the Semi-Finals, Pogge attained the longest shutout streak in Canadian history, and his 3 shutouts in one tournament are also a Canadian record
• Television replays in the opening minutes of the 2nd period showed the puck getting across the goal line behind Pogge. The Russians had a long discussion with American referee Brian Thul, but the score remained 2-0. Many, including the Russians following the game, claim had the goal been allowed, the momentum and possibly the outcome of the game could have been different
• Goalies: Justin Pogge (Canada) and Anton Khudobin (Russia)

• Over 4 hours of coverage, including pre-game, game, post-game and analysis, etc.

• Capitals outscore the Coyotes, 6-1
• Capitals' rookie Alex Ovechkin scores the infamous falling-backward, over-the-head, twisting goal
• Goalies: Brent Johnson (Capitals) and Brian Boucher (Coyotes)

• Goaltender Wade Flaherty of the hometown Manitoba Moose stopped 16 of 19 shots to lead the Canadian AHL All-Stars to a 21-12 victory over the PlanetUSA team at the 2006 CCM AHL All-Star Skills Competition, held in front of 14,738 fans at the MTS Centre
• The veteran Flaherty, playing in his first career AHL All-Star Classic, stopped seven of 10 shots in the RepeatSeat Rapid Fire event, then went a perfect 3-for-3 in the Rbk Pass and Score and 6-for-6 in the CCM Vector Breakaway Relay
• Grand Rapids' Donald MacLean, the AHL's leading goal-scorer with 32 at the All-Star break, won the CCM Vector Hardest Shot event with a blast clocked at 98.0 miles per hour. Lowell's Keith Aucoin (PlanetUSA) and Norfolk's Martin St. Pierre (Canadian) shared the Rbk Accuracy Shooting crown by breaking four targets in eight shots each
• Portland Pirates rookie Ryan Shannon dominated the speed events, earning a point for PlanetUSA by winning the individual InGlasCo Puck Control Relay, then posting a winning time of 14.084 seconds in the Rbk Fastest Skater event

• The Canadian AHL All-Star team got two goals each from Martin St. Pierre and Donald MacLean and a 33-save effort from its trio of goaltenders in a 9-4 win over the PlanetUSA AHL All-Stars
• The game was witnessed by a capacity crowd of 15,015 fans at the MTS Centre - the largest crowd ever for an AHL All-Star Game
• Wade Flaherty of the hometown Manitoba Moose and Yann Danis of the Hamilton Bulldogs were named co-winners of the Rbk Hockey Most Valuable Player award for the game
• Jimmy Roy, captain of the Moose and Canadian AHL All-Star team, scored late in the 3rd period to give his team the lead for good
• Game notables include:
  • Canadian Team - Mark Hartigan, Eric Fehr, Richie Regehr, Denis Hamel and Kirby Law
  • PlanetUSA - Noah Welch, Jiri Hudler, Denis Grebeshkov, Mike Mottau, Eric Healey and Patrick O'Sullivan
• Goalies: Wade Flaherty, Dany Sabourin, Yann Danis (Canadian) and Al Montoya, Pekka Rinne, Vitaly Kolesnik (PlanetUSA)

• Alexander Ovechkin broke a scoreless tie 1:30 into the 3rd period and Russia eliminated defending champion Canada from the Olympics with a 2-0 victory
• This served as the 1st time Canada has failed to reach the Semi-Finals in three tries since full participation of NHL players began with the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan, when it lost the Bronze medal game. Canada won Gold at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City
• Despite a lineup of NHL stars, Canada had trouble scoring in Turin, being shutout 3 times in 6 games (2-0 by Switzerland, 2-0 by Finland and finally 2-0 by Russia)
• With the victory, Russia/Soviet Union improves its record to 7-1 all-time against Canada at the Olympics
• Goalies: Martin Brodeur (Canada) and Evgeni Nabokov (Russia)

• Sweden's Nicklas Lidstrom scores 10 seconds into the 3rd period put Sweden up 3-2 - the game would end that way
• Goaltender Henrik Lundqvist was impossible to beat in the 3rd period and made one of the best saves of the year with about 30 seconds to go to prevent a Finnish equalizer
• Goalies: Henrik Lundqvist (Sweden) and Antero Niittymaki (Finland)

• The Oilers defeat the Red Wings with a 4-3 victory
• Red Wing Legend Steve Yzerman skates in his final NHL game
• Goalies: Manny Legace (Red Wings) and Dwayne Roloson (Oilers)

• The Canes take Game 1 with a 5-4 win
• Oilers' goalie Dwayne Roloson, who was having a superb playoff in leading the Oilers to the Finals, sustains a knee injury with 6 minutes left in the game. As a result, Roloson was gone for the rest of the Final and the Hurricanes went on to win the Stanley Cup in 7 games
• The winning goal: Ty Conklin sets the puck behind the net for defenceman Jason Smith. Mis-communication between the two allows Canes' Rod Brind'Amour the opportunity to sweep in, pick up the puck and wrap it around for a goal
• Goalies: Dwayne Roloson, replaced by Ty Conklin (Oilers) and Cam Ward (Hurricanes)

• The Carolina Hurricanes win their 1st ever Stanley Cup in a 3-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers
• As is the tradition, captain Rod Brind'Amour was the first to lift the Cup. The first teammate Brind'Amour passed the Stanley Cup to was Glen Wesley. The defenceman from Red Deer, Alta., had played 1,479 games counting regular seasons and playoffs without winning the trophy. No active player had waited longer. Game 1,480 proved the charm
• Brind'Amour provided inspirational leadership for the Hurricanes, Eric Staal amassed the most playoff points, 28, and Cam Ward became the first rookie netminder since Patrick Roy in 1986 to lead his team to the title. Ward was named playoff MVP
• The Oilers, finishing 8th in the West, showed great determination, even after losing starting goalie Dwayne Roloson in Game 1 of the Finals. However in the end, the Hurricanes (who tied with Dallas for 3rd overall - behind Detroit and Ottawa) were more than deserving of the Championship
• Goalies: Jussi Markkanen (Oilers) and Cam Ward (Hurricanes)

• The Senators come away with a 5-2 win
• Choppy game which was to be expected. Many rookies trying out for a position on the team including Penguins top pick Jordan Staal who looked better as the game went on - playing in his 1st game in a Penguins uniform
• Senators' Dany Heatley scored 2 Goals while Penguins' Sidney Crosby recorded 1 Goal and 1 Assist

• The Penguins defeat the Flyers, 5-4
• Penguins' rookie phenom Evgeny Malkin makes his 1st NHL appearance. However, his presence is short-lived, as he collides with teammate John LeClair in the 2nd period and leaves the game with a dislocated shoulder

• Panthers' newcomer Todd Bertuzzi records 1 Goal and 3 Assists in an 8-3 romp over the Bruins
• Bruins' rookie Phil Kessel makes his NHL regular season debut
• Goalies: Tim Thomas, replaced by Hannu Toivonen (Bruins) and Alex Auld (Panthers)

• Sabres defeat the Bruins, 6-2
• Bruins' Phil Kessel scores his 1st NHL Goal
• Goalies: Martin Biron (Sabres) and Hannu Toivonen, replaced by Tim Thomas (Bruins)

Other Hockey Videos

Summit Series 1972 - USSR VS Canada - Complete 8 Game Series (4 DVDs)
It was the greatest series ever - a clash of cultures, a clash of playing styles, and a battle of wills that was not decided until the final minute of the final game in the month-long, 8-game, two-continent epic. From the opening anthems before Game 1 in Montreal, to the celebration after the final buzzer of Game 8 in Moscow, it's all here, over 19 hours of coverage, in this incredible DVD set! Finally, your chance to re-live every thrilling moment of action - minute by minute, frame by frame - from a time when Canadian hockey dominance was put to its greatest test, and eventually triumphed supreme. Produced exclusively for Canadian retailers to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the series
DVD Extras Include: Player Interviews, Opening Ceremonies, National Anthems, Player Introductions, Phil Esposito's Game 4 Message to Canada, Hockey Hall of Fame, Team of the Century Presentation, Fan Forum, and Team Canada 2002 Return to Luzhniki

It's Our Game: World Cup of Hockey 2004 (2 DVDs)
- On September 14th, 2004 Team Canada proved once again why hockey is "our game." In front of a hometown crowd and a worldwide television audience, this amazing team had a perfect 6-0 record at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey
- "It's Our Game" takes you behind the scenes of Team Canada's journey at the World Cup of Hockey...from training camp through to the final game, see how this team battled adversity and injuries to achieve worldwide hockey glory
- Along with incredible game highlights, "It's Our Game" features exclusive access into Team Canada's dressing room before, during and after games
- In-depth Interviews, team strategy sessions and player meetings make "It's Our Game" an epic hockey saga not to be missed
- Behind every great team there is a great story...this is Team Canada's

- DVD Features: Full length documentary, Team Canada player bios, Special player features, Complete final game versus Finland (Widescreen), Exclusive Interviews, Every goal scored by Team Canada

Volume 1: 1988-89 - 30 mins Volume 2: 1989-90 - 35 mins Volume 3: 1990-91 - 50 mins Volume 4: 1991-92 - 30 mins Volume 5: 1992-93 - 60 mins Volume 6: 1993-94 - 60 mins Volume 7: 1994-95 - 60 mins Volume 8: 1995-96 - 60 mins

HOCKEY AUDIO

Hockey Rock - Winnipeg Style (CD)

• During the Winnipeg Jets' final season in Winnipeg, a group of well-known local artists got together and recorded a Jets tribute CD, with proceeds going towards the "Goals For Kids" charity. At the beginning of every Jets season, local businesses would select Jets players. With each goal their player scored, they donated a pre-determined amount to the charity. This being their last season, these local artists figured they'd do a little more for the charity
• Artists on the album include Randy Bachman, Joey Gregorash, Colin James, Streetheart, and Harlequin. Many of the songs are re-recordings of their hits, but with lyrics about the Jets (EX. "That's One Hot Russian Jet" sung Randy Bachman to the tune of "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet", lyrics about Alexei Zhamnov)

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Peter Warren Hockey Card Program, 2 Sports Guys & Other Winnipeg Radio (CD)

• Back in 1991, while the hockey/sports card craze was in full stride, Winnipeg's often controversial CJOB radio talkshow host Peter Warren invited 3 of Winnipeg's most prominant sports card dealers for an episode of "The Action Line", to discuss and take calls on the topic. Guests include Joe Daley (former NHL/WHA goaltender) representing "Joe Daley Sports Cards", Tony from "Pat Elynuik's Sports Cards" (Elynuik - the former NHL'er also got in on the craze with a business of his own), and Dale from ABD Cards - a Winnipeg sports card empire for nearly 2 decades. Following the program, the CD jumps to more classic moments of the 2 Sports Guys (see above for more info on them). Bonuses to close out the CD include Larry Robinson/Manon Rheaume presenting the Norris Trophy at the 1994 NHL Awards, Abbott & Costello's classic piece "Who's On First?", and a Winnipeg Jets Tribute Song titled "Memories To Cheer" - dedicated to those who supported the 1995 "Save The Jets" Grassroots campaign

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Baseball Game Videos

June 23, 1984 - St. Louis Cardinals VS Chicago Cubs (DVD)
(NBC)(With Commercials)

• Ryne Sandberg, early in his major league career, and his Cub teammates defeat the Cards, 2-1
• NBC broadcast through the top of the 9th Inning. Classic Sports re-broadcast from bottom of 9th through extra innings to the finish

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August 4, 1984 - Montreal Expos VS Chicago Cubs (DVD)
(WGN)(With Commercials)

• Cubs win 4-1

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August 1989 - Philadelphia Phillies VS Chicago Cubs (DVD)
(WGN)(With Commercials)

• Cubs win in a barnburner, 9-7

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July 28, 1991 - Montreal Expos VS Los Angeles Dodgers
(TSN)(With Commercials)

• Expos' Dennis Martinez pitches a perfect game "El Presidente, El Perfecto!"
• Other notable names for the Expos include youngsters Delino DeShields, Marquis Grissom, Larry Walker and a veteran Tim Wallach. Dodgers notables include Eddie Murray and Darryl Strawberry

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September 21, 1997 - Philadelphia Phillies VS Chicago Cubs (DVD)
(WGN)(With Commercials)

• Last games for Ryne Sandberg and Harry Caray in the Cubs' final home game of the season
• Cubs win 11-3

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Basketball Game Videos

March 27, 1979 - NCAA Final
Michigan State VS Indiana State (DVD)
("Classic Madness" - ESPN Classics)(With Commercials)

• MSU 75 - ISU 64 - Magic Johnson VS Larry Bird

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March 5, 1982 - NCAA ACC Tournament
North Carolina VS Georgia Tech

• Michael Jordan in rare college tournament action

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March 6, 1982 - NCAA ACC Tournament
North Carolina VS North Carolina State

• Michael Jordan in rare college tournament action

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March 27, 1982 - NCAA Semi-Final
North Carolina VS Houston

• Michael Jordan leads North Carolina to the finals in rare college tournament action

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March 29, 1982 - NCAA Final
North Carolina VS Georgetown
(ESPN Classics)(With Commercials)

• UNC 63 - GTN 62 - Michael Jordan wins the game at with 16 seconds left
• Other notables in the game include James Worthy, Sam Perkins and Patrick Ewing

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February 10, 1983 - North Carolina VS University Of Virginia

• Michael Jordan VS Ralph Sampson in rare college action

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April 16, 1987 - Atlanta Hawks VS Chicago Bulls

• Michael Jordan racks up 61 points

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March 28, 1990 - Chicago Bulls VS Cleveland Cavaliers
(SportsChannel)

• Michael Jordan, in a 117-113 OT win, sets a career high in scoring with 69 points
• Jordan also hit 23 of 37 from the floor and also set a career high with 18 rebounds
• Rookie coach Phil Jackson gets his 46th win

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July 1990 - Magic Johnson All-Star Basketball Charity Game (Los Angeles)

• Yearly charity game featuring Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and a number of other notable stars
• Jordan racks up 40+ points

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Michael Jordan - Come Fly With Me - Sports Illustrated (1991) - 40 mins

• Updated version of the original 1989 release
• Includes rare footage from college, spectacular highlights from his NBA career and All-Star games, Michael at home, on the golf course and in the air, Slam Dunks and gravity defying shots galore. Plus dramatic footage of Jordan's 1989 playoff highlights

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August 8, 1992 - Barcelona Olympics - Gold Medal Final
USA VS Croatia

• With a team stacked with NBA All-Stars, USA wins the Gold Medal 117-85 over Tony Kukoc, Dino Radja and the Croatians
• The US "Dream Team" was stacked with players such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler and John Stockton. WOW!!!

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NBA Dream Team (1992) / The Dream Team: Simply The Best (1992)

• Two officially released videos profiling the outstanding players and the dynamic personalities that made up the most invincible basketball team ever assembled, the 1992 Olympic Champion Dream Team. Features spectacular career highlights and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of NBA superstars including Charles Barkley, Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing

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ACC Dream Team (1992) - 45 mins

• This highlights the careers of the all-time greats of the ACC. The starting five features Michael Jordan, Phil Ford, Ralph Sampson, Danny Ferry and David Thompson

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February 21, 1993 - NBA All-Star Game (Salt Lake City)

• Co-MVP's John Stockton and Karl Malone lead Paul Westphal's Western Squad to a 135-132 Overtime victory over Pat Riley's Eastern Team. It was the first time co-MVP's for the game had been named
• The Eastern squad was led by Michael Jordan's 30 points in his "last" All-Star game before his initial "retirement". The game was also the last for Isiah Thomas (11 games) and Brad Daugherty

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Football Game Videos

January 10, 1982 - NFC Semi Final
Dallas Cowboys VS San Francisco 49'ers

• Joe Montana completed 22 of 35 passes for 286 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions. The third TD pass, caught by Dwight Clark, came in the closing seconds of the game to lift the 49'ers to victory and later became known as "The Catch"

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November 18, 1984 - Grey Cup
Hamilton Tiger Cats VS Winnipeg Blue Bombers (Edmonton)(DVD)
(CBC)(With Commercials)

• Bombers break the record for most points in a quarter in the 2nd as they rack up 27 - they later broke this record by 1 point in 1990
• Also a record was set for fewest total yards between both teams with 376
• Bombers win the game 47-17; their first Grey Cup in 22 years
• Bomber quarterback Tom Clements is game MVP

• Also includes...
  • Bombers' Blitz CFL '90 (1990) - 60 mins
    "The best of the regular season and playoffs... the Clever Catches ... the Rivetting Runs ... the Hardest Hits ... and the Funniest Fumbles. It's all here in this Action Packed Video showcasing this Record Breaking CFL Season"

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November 23, 1984 - Orange Bowl
Miami VS Boston College
("Phi Beta Classics" - ESPN Classics)

• MIA. 45 - BC 47 - Doug Flutie's infamous "Hail Mary" pass
• Doug Flutie VS Bernie Kozar

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1988 CFL All-Star Game

• Last ever CFL All-Star Game

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CFL 1989 - A Season To Remember
Rider Pride Takes The Cup (DVD)
- 60 mins

• Officially released video looking back at the 1989 CFL season, one that brought the Grey Cup to Saskatchewan for the first time since 1966

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November 29, 1992 - Grey Cup
Calgary Stampeders VS Winnipeg Blue Bombers (Toronto)
(CBC)

• Doug Flutie's wins his 1st Grey Cup Championship

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October 15, 1994 - Winnipeg Blue Bombers VS Las Vegas Posse (DVD)
(TSN)

• Bombers breeze through this one, 48-17
• To-be Bomber coaching flop Jeff Reinbold works as assistant coach of the Posse
• Quarterbacks: Matt Dunigan replaced by Keithen McCant (Bombers) and Anthony Calvillo replaced by Preston Jones (Posse)

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April 3, 2001 - New York/New Jersey Hitmen VS Las Vegas Outlaws (XFL)
(NBC)(With Commercials)

• The Inaugural Game of Vince McMahon's Short-Lived Xtreme Football League
• Following this the premier season, the league folded. NBC and the XFL each reportedly suffered $35 million in after-tax losses as joint owners of the failed league

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November 10, 2002 - Western Division Semi-Final
British Columbia Lions VS Winnipeg Blue Bombers (DVD)(With Commercials)
(CBC)

• The Bombers dominate in every aspect of the game, defeating the Lions 30-3
• American TV network's broadcast of the CBC feed

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