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| » Hauptforum » Forum: Allgemein » Thread: Ranking the 10 greatest years in hockey history |
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The NHL expanded from its "original six" to 12 teams in 1967-68, with the California Seals, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues joining the fray. The NHL put all of those teams in the same division, meaning that an expansion team was going to have the chance to win the Stanley Cup in its inaugural season. Every "West Division" playoff series in 1968 went seven games, including the No. 4-seeded North Stars stunning the Kings in the first round. Sure, the Blues got rolled by the Canadiens in the Cup Final, but who didn't the Habs demolish back then?  But the most memorable moment of 1968 was also one of the most tragic in hockey history: the death of Bill Masterton of the North Stars. On Jan. 13, 1968, Masterton suffered a severe internal brain injury  Womens Terry Sawchuk Jersey during a game against the California Seals when he fell backward and hit Shaq Mason Jersey his unprotected head on the ice. Masterton passed out, was taken to the hospital, never regained consciousness and died, at the age of 29, on Jan. 15. To date, he's the only player in http://www.authenticjetshockeyshop.com/-31-ondrej-pavelec-jersey_c-463.html NHL history to have died as a result of an in-game injury. His death left a lasting legacy, from the institution of http://www.detroitlions.us.com/WOMENS-JAKE-RUDOCK-JERSEY.html the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, which is awarded annually to the player who best exemplifies the virtues of "perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey" that Masterton displayed to hastening the adoption of helmets for NHL players.  It was also an Olympic year. The Soviets routed Canada -- which had previously been stunned by Finland in pool play http://www.officialredsstore.com/authentic-14-pete-rose-jersey.html -- 5-0 to win gold. But the tournament was notable for another reason: It featured the first and only Olympic hockey game between East and West Germany, which the West Germans won 4-2. Look, the NHL is 100 years old. Our perspective is, admittedly, skewed toward the more recent years. Which is why we reached out to the great Stan Fischler, hockey historian, and asked him what his favorite hockey year was. And he said the 1941-42 season. From Stan: "I was 10 years old at the time, and became a Maple Leafs fan -- even though I lived in Brooklyn -- because I was 'lured' to the Leafs by Foster Hewitt's broadcasts. That was for starters. It was a seven-team league [before the "Original Six" era] and World War II had yet to decimate rosters. Lines such as the 'Krauts' in Boston were supreme, and Dick Butkus Authentic Jersey so were the goaltenders who never wore masks. Hardly any players wore helmets. "A fan like me got to know every player just by looking at him; no scorecard was necessary. It was the acme year for clean-tough hockey, with the likes of Jimmy Orlando, Bucko McDonald, Bingo Kampman and Art Coulter tossing genuine body checks -- the likes of which are virtually unknown today. The best goalies were Mister Zero, Frankie Brimsek in Boston, Davey Kerr in New York, Turk Broda in Toronto and Johnny Bowers in Detroit. The Rangers finished first, led Womens Shayne Corson Jersey by Sugar Jim Henry in the net. "Even the Americans, in their last year, had a rookie goalie named Chuck Rayner who would make the Hall of Fame. Tommy Anderson won the Hart, if I'm not mistaken. [Ed. Note: He's not.] "Yes, the game was slower but it was 'good slower,' because plays could be made and the dopey fire-the-puck-in-the-corner-and-hope-for-the-best' philosophy didn't work. "Tickets were cheap enough that the lower-middle class could afford to go whenever -- as was proven in my case. Of course, when you have only seven teams, fans can easily zero in and get to know them much better than they can today." All great points from The Maven, but we'll add a couple of more. The 1942 Stanley Cup Final featured what was, at the time, the greatest comeback in the history of professional team sports: The Maple Leafs rallied from a 3-0 series deficit to defeat the Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup. It took 33 years for it to happen again in a best-of-seven series in the NHL -- and then it happened twice from 2010 to '14. In Major League Baseball, it has happened only once, in 2004. Later in 1942, the Brooklyn Americans were dropped by the NHL, leaving the league with only six teams -- the Bruins, Black Hawks, Red Wings, Canadiens, Rangers and Maple Leafs. It would remain that way for another 25 years. This year makes the cut for two reasons: Wayne Gretzky and Patrick Roy. Gretzky's achievements are legion, and many of his records won't be broken without some radical recalibration of the game. This year saw the Great One hit one of his greatest marks: 215 points in a single season, topping his 212 in 1981-82. That's 215 points on Edmonton's 426 total goals that season. He scored more points in a single season than Justin Abdelkader has scored in his career so far (213 in 574 games). Gretzky's 163 assists are also the most in a season in NHL history, 28 more than the next-closest total. http://club-liga.de/index.php?forum-showposts-2500 http://forum.histoire-fr.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=12515 http://furiousgroup.com/blogs/post/32774 http://foodtube.net/profiles/blogs/high-speed-trapeze-james-harden http://chiyahmau.com/forum/topic/110988 http://drvr.de/index.php?forum-showposts-8351 http://ekojazda.twoje-zycie.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=96818 |
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