Sabres Vs. Canadiens April 29, 1975

[bob_sauve28]

Tuesday – Stanley Cup Playoffs semifinals, Game 2 (April 29, 1975): Craig Ramsey and Don Luce scored in the third period, and Roger Crozier made 25 saves in a 4-2 win, giving the Sabres a 2-0 lead in the series over the Canadiens. Buffalo advanced to its first Stanley Cup Final with a 4-3 win at Montreal Forum in Game 6.

[bob_sauve28]

https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/BUF/1975.html

 

https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/MTL/1975.html

 

Canadiens roster full of future hockey executives. John Van Boxmeer also on their team. 

[Stoner]

Gerry Korab

[Stoner]

The camera work is awesome! So tight to the play. The faces, the faces.

[Stoner]

Bring back the (non-OT) bench-clearing goal celebration. IIRC the ban on them came after a series of bench-clearing brawls in the early 80s.

[Marvin]

IMHO, they should play games 1, 2, 5, and 6.

The Sabres were outscored 15-2 in games 3 and 4.  There was a real question if the Sabres could recover.  And people wondered if they could finish the series off in Montreal.

[Stoner]

Rick grew up listening to and admiring Danny Gallivan, and, holy mackerel, can you hear a lot of Rick in Danny. The deadpan, dry humor for one thing. Rick lifted some of the expressions word for word.

[SwampD]

Man, it's nice to watch hockey without all the branding.

[bob_sauve28]

43 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

The camera work is awesome! So tight to the play. The faces, the faces.

This video quality  is better than I expected 

[SwampD]

At the end of that game, what was the offside rule back then that meant the face-off was at Montreal's blue line and not the Sabres'?

[bob_sauve28]

Just now, SwampD said:

At the end of that game, what was the offside rule back then that meant the face-off was at Montreal's blue line and not the Sabres'?

Origin of the pass? 

[SwampD]

9 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

Origin of the pass? 

By what the announcer said, it kinda sounded like that.

EDIT: That's right. They still had the 2 line pass rule. Still can't tell if that's makes as big a difference as we'd all like to think.

Edited May 13, 2020 by SwampD

[Stoner]

Funny how the Sabres' royal blue looks very dark purplish blueish.

[tom webster]

2 hours ago, E4 ... Ke2 said:

IMHO, they should play games 1, 2, 5, and 6.

The Sabres were outscored 15-2 in games 3 and 4.  There was a real question if the Sabres could recover.  And people wondered if they could finish the series off in Montreal.

In fact that record still stands, Montreal is still the only team to lose a six game series despite outscoring their opponent by 8 goals.

[Tondas]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

EDIT: That's right. They still had the 2 line pass rule. Still can't tell if that's makes as big a difference as we'd all like to think.

Not much of a difference.  I think the big benefit is to make a line change easier.  With the 2 line pass rule, it resulted in more icings.  Now guys park over the center line and just get their stick on an outlet pass and then get to the bench. 

[Stoner]

Were these teams any good? Was it good hockey? Or just good hockey for the time?

There's always the debate about which Sabres team would beat which Sabres team. After watching some of this game, I'd be on the worst tank team beating the 75 Sabres, a lot of it based on goaltending. But a lot of other things that were apparent.

[bob_sauve28]

2 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

Were these teams any good? Was it good hockey? Or just good hockey for the time?

There's always the debate about which Sabres team would beat which Sabres team. After watching some of this game, I'd be on the worst tank team beating the 75 Sabres, a lot of it based on goaltending. But a lot of other things that were apparent.

I disagree. I think that 74 75 team had a lot of really good hockey players. Is part of your assumption that players today are in better shape, have better coaching and more information? That might make a big difference, but I don't know how much 

 

I'd love to see the game! 

 

I'd love to watch the 99 team take on the 06 squad!