A daily look at the events in hockey as they happened 50 years ago.
Hi everyone! After a hiatus that has lasted far too long, 50 Years Ago in Hockey is making a comeback. We’ve been engaged in a few other projects over the past year and are now ready to get back to supporting our daily @1969hockeynews Twitter account, where we report on news and events in the […]
Welcome to our new page, “50 Years Ago in Hockey.” On this page we’ll provide coverage of events in the hockey world as they happened 50 years ago. We have gleaned information from over 25 historical newspapers and wire services of the day, as well as anecdotal information shared by some of the hockey people […]
This week’s 50 Years Ago in Hockey podcast is now available on The Hockey Podcast Network #THPN. In this show, we wrap up the 1971-72 NHL Season as the Stanley Cup final is decided, there are lots of rumours of players moving to the new World Hockey Association, (although no big stars seem to be […]
This week’s 50 Years Ago in Hockey podcast is now live on The Hockey Podcast Network #THPN https://link.chtbl.com/50yearsagoinhockey This week we look at games 2 – 4 of the 1972 Stanley Cup Final between the Bruins and Rangers, we have some WHA news and the NHL awards are announced, not without a bit of controversy!
This week’s 50 Years Ago in Hockey podcast is now live on The Hockey Podcast Network #THPN https://link.chtbl.com/50yearsagoinhockey Today we report on the two Stanley Cup games played this week, as the Bruins sweep the Blues and the Finals open in Boston!. There’s lots of off-ice news and two of hockey’s greatest players have some […]
Our latest 50 Years Ago in Hockey podcast episode is now live on The Hockey Podcast Network #THPN https://link.chtbl.com/50yearsagoinhockey This week we have Round 2 of the 1972 Stanley Cup playoffs, where one series was supposed to be close and wasn’t and the other series was simply an embarrassment to the NHL; we also have […]
Our latest 50 Years Ago In Hockey podcast is now available at The Hockey Podcast Network #THPN https://link.chtbl.com/50yearsagoinhockey This week we have the completion of the 1st round of the 1972 playoffs and lots of off-ice news as well!
Today’s 50 Years Ago in Hockey podcast is now live on The Hockey Podcast Network #THPN https://link.chtbl.com/50yearsagoinhockey This week, we have lots of WHA news, including a report on the very first WHA player draft, the Bernie Parent situation becomes even more muddled (will he jump to the WHA or won’t he?) and a pair […]
Our latest 50 Years Ago in Hockey podcast is up at The Hockey Podcast Network! https://link.chtbl.com/50yearsagoinhockey This week we get some great quotes from various hockey folks around NHL, we gain some insight into what a work week looks like for sports agent Bob Woolf, and we have lots of WHA news happening! #THPN
This week’s podcast is now available on The Hockey Podcast Network! #THPNhttps://link.chtbl.com/50yearsagoinhockeyThis time, we have lots of WHA news, we learn how the NHL divisions will look next season, and the NHL All-star game was played in Minneapolis.
We are finally back with a new episode for this week’s 50 Years Ago in Hockey podcast on The Hockey Podcast Network #THPN This week we have news on @BuffaloSabres Punch Imlach, a near-riot in Philadelphia, and some WHA news: https://link.chtbl.com/50yearsagoinhockey It’s been and continues to be a bit of a struggle to achieve a […]
Today on The Hockey Podcast Network #THPN we have our final two episodes from our 50 Years Ago in Hockey Podcast series on how the media covered the death of Terry Sawchuk in 1970. We hope to be back next week with our regular shows if my voice finally comes back! This COVID thing has […]
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