What are your favorite/most memorable moments of the NHL???

Question

I started watching hockey in the early 70's and my best memories are:
The Broad Street Bullies-a mouthful of teeth between them, they intimidated teams. Ah, the Philly flu opposing players would catch upon arriving in Philly. Bob Clarke's toothless grin.
The Isles dynasty run. Bossy, Trottier, Potvin and company. What a squad-and Billy Smith-venture in his crease and he would make you pay.
The Flyers scaring the bejesus out of the Russians and the 35 game unbeaten streak in 79-80.
The old nasty Bruins in the days of Middleton and Cashman.
The Oiler run-what a group of guys in their prime-and of course GRETZKY-always with Semenko riding shotgun.
Ron Hextall during the mid 80 playoffs. Nasty temper and scary good.
The Oilers improbable runs post-Gretzky.
Clint Malarchuk's injury. Pelle Lindbergh's death.
Dale Hunter's cheap shot.
The Pens in the early 90's.
Patrick Roy's 93' play-offs.
The Lindros' fiascos.
The bench clearing brawls.

Fire Bettman.

Answer 1

Bobby Orr's goal against St; Louis in the Stanley Cup finals
Montreal vs. Boston in the early to mid 70's
Broad Street Bullies being demolished by Montreal in 1975 Cup
Sittler's 10 points against Philly
Stan Johnathan levelling Pierre Bouchard
Bobby (Knuckles) Nystrom Stanley Cup goal in 1979
Watching Gretzky at anytime and being absolutely amazed
Savardian Spinarama (Serge and Denis)
Mario Lemeuix anytime on the ice
Hearing the crowd when both Bobby and Brett Hull wound up for their famous slapshots
Richard Broduer standing on his head for the Canucks in their playoff run to the Cup finals
Yzerman's class and leadership
Sydney Crosby and his passion and creativeness of the game

Answer 2

Gretzky's first night in Los Angeles

AND the excitement before that when the news broke that he had been traded here.

Gretzky breaking Howe's point record.

The "Miracle on Manchester", the Kings coming from a 5-0 deficit in the 3rd period to win a playoff game against the Oilers

The Kings run to their only Cup final appearance in 1993.

Nystrom scoring in overtime to give the Islanders their first cup.

The 2001 playoffs giving Borque a stanley cup to retire with.

Friends calling 10 times a day asking if we could go to a Mighty Ducks game in 1994. (I know "true" Hockey fans are not supposed to like this, but it got a LOT of people I know into the game)

The 1976-1977 Canadians, I doubt we will ever see a team that played so perfectly.

Lemieux's deadly accuarcy on breakaways.

Gretzky's ability to know what 9 other people were going to do before they did it.

Coffey and the Oilers getting the puck into the offensive zone so quickly.

Gordie Howe playing at age 50.

You are not going to get your wish. What nobody on Yahoo answers understands is it is the OWNERS that have ruined the game, and pull Bettman's strings.

Answer 3

Bobby Orr and the Bruins of the early 70s - shame about his knees.
Butch Goring for the Isles one year. True Grit.
Lemieux dismantling the Blackhawks.
Bossy on fire against the Canucks.
Roy carrying the Habs on his back to Cup.
Pat Quinn's hip check on Bobby Orr in the playoffs.
Darryl Sittler's 10 point night.
Gretzky's 50 goals in 34 games.
Any Habs and Nords series.
Habs vs Red Army on New Years Eve.

Answer 4

My favorite Bourque moment...before a game when he took off his #7 jersey only to have a #77 underneath. A great tribute to Espo. Then there was the Penguins blue uniforms...somehow it just didn't fit. I was at the last home game they wore blue. Who could forget when Lemieux scored 5 goals 5 different ways. The '86 playoffs will be the year the evil empire went down to me. I was so happy Calgary put the Oilers out. The best memory I have is of Mike Lange. He's the best anouncer ever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lange

Answer 5

1990's Pens
Bourque finally getting a Stanley Cup
The Bruins when they were a force to be reckoned with...in the Garden.
Front row seats for Lemieux's 1000th assist.
Hextall...enough said.
Lemieux returning to ice after cancer treatment.
Lindros leaving Philly. Bye bye.
2000/2001 Season Kasparaitis scoring the winning goal in Game 7 overtime to beat Buffalo...who would have thought?
Bench clearing brawls in Boston...Dafoe giving the crowd a "PJ Stock" wave.

Answer 6

when Larry Robinson was in the dressing room getting his skates sharpened and hearing in the dressing room that there's a bench clearing brawl vs the Flyers and Robinson put his skates back on and ran to the ice and Shultzy was standing there and Robinson made Shulzty look like a pee-wee fighting an NHL player and that's when the Habs took over the Flyers and the Flyers little dynasties of intimidation ended and then the Habs went on to win 4 straight Stanley cup's.

or back in the 80's with another bench clearing brawl between the Habs and Flyers when Hextall came out of his net and cross checked Chelios on the top of the circle i miss does great rivalries back in the day's.

WISH THERE WHERE MORE IN TODAY'S NHL.


GO HABS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Answer 7

for me, it was the improbable run by the Edmonton Oilers last year. That was the most remarkable and unexpected run I have ever seen in NHL post-season history. Too bad the Oilers lost in Game 7 of the Finals...but hey, it was still a memorable run while it lasted.

Answer 8

Steve Yzermans OT goal against the Blues in the Playoffs.

Answer 9

Yzermans goal against the Blues in OT, cant recall what year, maybe 95 or 96 where he comes in and rips a shot top corner and the jubilation he shows jumping up and down gives ya goose bumps.

Answer 10

I loved when Ray Borque finally was on a team that won a Stanley Cup the last time Colorado won it. He's a great player and deserved to win one. It was cool how the team captain (I think it was Joe Sakic) was handed the cup and almost immediately handed it over to his older teammate. Definitely a cool moment.