Bruins-Maple Leafs Jan. 10, 1970 Hockey Night in Canada Complete B+W rebroadcast off Leafs TV
Complete B W rebroadcast from Bruins-Maple Leafs Jan. 10, 1970, Hockey Night in Canada, at Maple Leaf Gardens off Leafs TV.
Be warned ... the video is extremely washed-out. But there are so few complete games around, I see value in them and enjoy them. You may not. At least there are no commercials!
Exactly four months from this night, Bobby Orr and the Big, Bad, Bruins would go on to win the Stanley Cup, with Orr scoring his famous Flying Bobby goal to beat the Blues. Phil Esposito, Derek Sanderson, Gerry Cheevers, etc., were taking no prisoners this season, but somehow the last place Maple Leafs of Dave Keon, Ron Ellis, and Bruce Gamble grab a 4-3 win.
The Bruins, at the height of their powers but who entered with a long non-winning streak at MLG, didn’t have Sanderson. Gamble played well. And a huge oddity: Orr scored two own goals. But being the greatest hockey player who ever laced ’em up, he put a booming slapper past Gamble and added two assists *and was named the game’s third