Memory Lane: the NHL – in pictures
On the eve of the 2014 NHL regular season, we’ve had a rummage through the archives to check out some of the action from years gone by
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View from beneath the ice of a face-off between the Washington Capitals and the Boston Bruins in the 1980s.
Photograph: B Bennett/Getty Images
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New York Rangers goalie Ed Giacomin gets set to block the puck during the first National Hockey League game to be played in the new Madison Square Garden. The Rangers defeated Philadelphia 3-1 before a sellout crowd of 17,250 on 18 February 1968.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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Derek Geary was drafted by the Boston Bruins during his senior year in high school (ice hockey being Geary’s second passion), before earning a bachelor’s degree in music composition. After graduation, Geary hung up his skates and forged a successful career in music.
Photograph: Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty
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Dino Belback, above, led a chorus of cheers for the Leafs after their dramatic 5-3 win over the Blues in Game 6 which set up the finale and kept Toronto’s Stanley Cup hopes alive in April 1986. It’s been many a year since Toronto’s hockey fans have had a chance to shout about the Maple Leafs.
Photograph: Ron Bull/Toronto Public Library/AP
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Black Hawks player Bobby Hull in game against the Boston Bruins.
Photograph: Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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Bill Barilko, No 5, of the Toronto Maple Leafs scores the winning goal against the Montreal Canadiens two minutes and fifty-three seconds into overtime during the final game of the 1950-51 Stanley Cup. The Leafs won 3-2 but didn’t win the Cup again until eleven years later.
Photograph: B Bennett/Getty Images
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Chico Fernandez, right, of the Detroit Tigers shares some of his fan mail with Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings as they recuperate in the Detroit Osteopathic Hospital on July 11, 1961. Fernandez had his tonsils removed and Howe had a cyst removed from his knee.
Photograph: B Bennett/Getty Images
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Buffalo Sabres Goal tender Clint Malarchuk suffered a serious neck laceration in March 1989 when Steve Tuttle’s skate blade cut into Malarchuk’s jugular vein. His life was saved by the team’s trainer, Jim Pizzutelli, who reached into Malarchuk’s neck and pinched off the blood vessel, not letting go until doctors began stabilizing the wound.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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Bobby Orr, second right, of the Boston Bruins flies through the air after sliding the puck past goalie Glenn Hall and being tripped by Noel Picard of the St Louis Blues as he scored the game winning overtime goal during Game 4 of the 1970 Stanley Cup. The Bruins defeated the Blues 4-3 and won the series 4-0.
Photograph: B Bennett/Getty Images
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One fan was so pleased with Bobby Orr’s goal that she leapt into his arms as the Bruins players celebrated their Stanley Cup victory during a parade through the streets of Boston, Massachusetts.
Photograph: B Bennett/Getty Images
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Don Awrey of the Boston Bruins falls towards the net behind goalie Gerry Cheevers during an NHL game against the Philadelphia Flyers in 1969 at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
Photograph: Melchior DiGiacomo/Getty Images
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The referee has to be quick off his feet to try and avoid being taken out as the Detroit Red Wings star Gordie Howe checks a Chicago Black Hawk opponent into the boards in the mid-1950s.
Photograph: Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images
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Perhaps looking for a fresh face to help revive his ailing Maple Leafs hockey team, club owner Harold Ballard, assisted by a friend, presents Luciano Pavarotti with a Leafs sweater.
Photograph: Boris Spremo/Toronto Public Library/AP
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Pop artist Andy Warhol poses on 13 December 1983 at New York’s St Moritz Hotel with one of six portraits of National Hockey League superstar Wayne Gretzky. Five of the portraits were sold in NHL cities for $35,000 each and the remaining one was selected by Gretzky to keep for himself.
Photograph: Mario Suriani/AP
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Goalie Billy Smith of the New York Islanders relaxes in the bathtub at home in January 1982 in Long Island, New York.
Photograph: Ronald C. Modra/Sports Imagery/Getty Images
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Hockey wouldn’t be hockey without a bit of biff. Boston Bruins’ Lyndon Byers lands a right hander on New Jersey Devils’ Craig Wolanin in 1988.
Photograph: Focus on Sport/Getty Images
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Gordie Howe is leading all the puck-chasers in scoring with 65 points in February 1951. A bachelor, he lives with Detroit Red Wings team-mate Ted Lindsay. Here, Howe, an ardent music fan, relaxes in the Lindsay home amid his large collection of records.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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A bit more biff, this time from December 1963 as Rangers take on Montreal at Madison Square Garden. A generally peaceful Andy Bathgate got into a hassle with an old team-mate, Dave Balon of the Canadiens, in the second period.
Photograph: New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News via Getty Images
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Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante shows the mask he wore after receiving seven stitches during a game with New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on 1 November 1959. It was the first time a goalkeeper had worn a mask during an official NHL match.
Photograph: NY Daily News via Getty Images
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Boston Bruins coach Bep Guidolin watches the Philadelphia Flyers victory celebration from the empty bench after his squad lost in the 1974 Stanley Cup finals to the Flyers.
Photograph: AP
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Johnny Gotteslig, No 14, of the Chicago Black Hawks tries to put the puck past goalie Walsh of the Montreal Maroons in December 1929. There is said to be more action in hockey than in any other sport and the agility with which these men seem to be moving tends to bear out that claim.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
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