I had forgotten about that. I now remember a couple of times as a kid watching the all-star game and it was indeed a school night. I recall one particular game in the mid 80s being sick and staying home from school but watching the all-star game that night all bundled up.
So here it is, first try.
Game 46 Video Highlights
Calgary at Detroit
I added the scoreboard thing to help fill the wide screen
Comments appreciated.
Oh, man. As years go by you remember how good some players were but don't always truly remember until you relive them with vids. Yzerman was quite slick in his early years!
There was a game. I don't remember the year but it was against Pittsburgh and I'm certain the goalie was Wendell Young. However in a game against the Flames, presumably Young came out to the faceoff dot to play a dumped puck and as he pulled it back to wind up for a long lead pass he lost the puck and it went in the net.
I’ll make my comments before the video appears so that it remains as a stand alone post.
These are my 4 take-aways after assembling the latest clips:
1. The Ron Duguay incident in the opening minute was frightening, especially in slow-motion, reminiscent of the Bill Masterton tragedy 21 years earlier,
2. Theoren Fleury’s goal was pretty spectacular, showing an incredible amount of finesse and touch
3. Tom Laidlaw looks like he got voted off the island again, twice
and most importantly.....
4. For a big-time, established TV personality with a gazillion dollars and promoting a new show, Pat Sajak sure had pretty shi**y seats
My god--BL, you must be sitting on a historic Flames gold mine. For instance, if I just randomly asked, "Does anyone remember that game in '94 when Andrei Trefilov came out of nowhere and stopped 50ish shots at MSG? Yeah, that was cool but do we know who the dressed backup was for the Flames that night? And, damn, anyone remember who the linesmen were for that game?" I assume you would just go to your archive and pull that game report?
When you can provide that many hints, it's not that hard.
It's when people say stuff like, "does anybody remember the game that I went to when I was a kid and Terry Sawchuk
waved to the crowd and I spilled mustard on my shirt?" That's when it gets tricky.
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When you can provide that many hints, it's not that hard.
It's when people say stuff like, "does anybody remember the game that I went to when I was a kid and Terry Sawchuk
waved to the crowd and I spilled mustard on my shirt?" That's when it gets tricky.
Ha! Amazing!! Thanks brother. I could play this game all day, but I won't
Another lost point revealed, this time for Killer. BL, any chance you have the game footage for this one? Would love to see the play in question. Surprised this was never fixed as the box score even had an assist to Gilmour on that Patterson goal.
Things like this make you wonder how many lost points there have been over the years. I specifically think to the '89 season and Mario finishing with 199 points. I'm sure at some point during the year he was probably robbed of a point that would have given him a nice even 200.
On a separate note, every time Wamsley plays I keep thinking we'll see him in his new mask. Or am I a year off? I feel like in every image I've seen of Gump playing for CGY he's always been in the Flames colored mask--but per this thread, every game he's played in so far, he's still wearing the white mask.
I’m going to drift into dangerous territory here ---- relying on my memory from 31 years ago rather than anything fact-based or backed up by a video clip. Although I wrote “Gilmour clearly pounced on” and it looked that way in real time to the point where they gave an assist in the arena and I followed up with “a clerical assist might have cost him”.......there’s something way in the deep recesses telling me that either Gilmour admitted he never touched the puck after the game (he rode Ellett off the puck and Patterson picked it up and shot it on his own) or we just noticed it when we checked afterwards out of curiosity (and the scorer did the same thing).
Very much like the video in post #167 of this thread where it appears Hawerchuk scored and the announcer goes on about it, but in reality Andrew McBain shoots the puck.
I just checked and the collector here who has over 50 full-game video of this season unfortunately doesn’t have this game on his list, so we might never find out. If I had to guess though, Gilmour probably didn’t get cheated on this one, not to say that never happened in other cases, especially in the pre-10 camera angles of every play days.
