Ragulin & Dzurilla
Heavy-weight defender in CCCP
and monster-like mask-bearer in Ceskoslovensko,
respectively... Earliest 70s heydays...
RAGULIN
DZURILLA
- Behold the mask! (Lecter, anyone?)

Any comments?
(Yeah, I do plan post pics of Phil Esposito & other
classic playes from the Western hemisphere)

He he BB. I don't think I've ever seen a topic that's been more OT than this.

JumpingKentFlash

Simultaneously overseas... Minnesota North Stars.. More goalkeepers...
Gump Worsley & Cesare Maniago (talk about mask for the former)

JumpingKentFlash Wrote:
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> He he BB. I don't think I've ever seen a topic
> that's been more OT than this.

Maybe, maybe not: but I'm sure many will say "a-ha"...

All of these, but from the 80s:







Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2007-05-28 20:12 by TooTough.

haha, watch the goalies at 1:30...

Whats in your glass Baboon Bro? Absinth? Keep it up!

Thanks Baboon, great pics.

Sweden has one and only one 100% cool guy and his name was Ronnie. His car was the coolest black MF you've seen. And this is what he, the cool Swede, looked like. He died in hospital a couple of weeks after a crash in 1978.

Of course, no pic.

[www.ronniepeterson.se]

Bobby Orr & Phil Esposito
Maltsev Lill-Strimma
Orr again (Pic sources soon come)
[www.tikare.se] [sportcardexpo.com] [www.math.toronto.edu] [www.bobbyorrhalloffame.com] [www.bobbyorrhalloffame.com]
Another cool Orr-pic [www.bobbyorrhalloffame.com]



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interesting



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013-02-17 22:48 by chelskeith.

Is this the team?

[www.chicagoblackhawks.com]
- Beautiful dresses!

First of all, I Love sports in general and (ice) hockey very much. I was very impressed by the Russians of that period while our national team used to lose 0:12 against every competitor. So I'm probably not competent enough to post here, but: Those guys above look as if they would be thrown out of the team if they had bought Exile on Main Street.

I had the blessing of seeing Lill-Strimma around 1971-72 as long he lived...
We were all those characters on the skating rink.
Ragulin aint with us anymore, he was a mean mofo: crushed any forward
players like a fly against the sideboard wood...
Mostly they just fainted by seeing him towering above them.

Young Ragulin - Old Ragulin, last days

Imho a cool pic of Gordie Howe & Bobby Hull "talk after 1974 Summit Series game.
photo courtesy: Ryan Hoffman (WHA fan site)." [www.geocities.com]
The Russopics: [svt.se] [sportlegend.kulichki.net]

Vintage hockey link you cannot do without;
esp. if ya like 1972: [www.1972summitseries.com]

Brad Park: the thinking man's Bobby Orr

Guy Lapointe and Jacques Laperriere: La Defense Extraordinaire!

Well I don't know about vintage hockey. But since my beloved San Jose Sharks didn't make the Stanley Cup finals,I have to root for the Ducks. At least they're from California. 1-1 so far.

Very OT-OT (is this a first?), what is it about hockey players and Canadian politics? Ken Dryden is now a Member of Parliament, having recently run and lost the party leadership bid, and Frank Mahovalich - The Big M himself - is a Senator (as in the second House of Parliament, not the about-to-win-the-Cup Senators...)

There is something about those vintage players though. I was never a huge hockey fan, but being a Canuck, I think I was born knowing what icing is (and had to study hard to learn the infield fly rule). A few years ago I was in a local department store when I ran into Darryl Sittler and Johnny Bower waiting to start a book signing. Lots of dads and kids (and moms) lined up waiting, and I came down the escalator to where their table was set up. Johnny caught my eye just as I saw and recognised him, and I broke into a huge grin, blew him a kiss and a wink that no-one else saw, and he just grinned back at me. Those were the days, when the Stones defined R&R and guys like Johnny Bower were hockey heros. Deja vu all over again, sports fans.

And as a little pre-Cups finals gift to all my pals stateside, and especially on the left coast, a little Canadian ditty to strike fear into your loser hearts, and make you understand once and for all why Canada rules the ice, even if it's just in our drinks! (Yes, we all know the words, sing along, demand it be played every game, and the only thing that could improve this would be to see Keef and Ronnie take a turn with it - it could happen!)





Oh, yeah. Duckies? Phthffft!!!!!! (Heh heh heh!)

Bobby Hull!

Matti Keinonen, Gustav Bubnik & Urpo Ylönen in Vienna 1967.[www.tampere.fi]
Dzurilla Håkan Nygren, heavy defender
Finally two pics of Bo "Bulla (The Bun)" Berggren, kind of blend Lee Marvin-Steven Seagal-George Best
[www.tampere.fi] [www.cardcollector.nu] [www.tikare.se]



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2007-05-29 23:45 by Baboon Bro.

Very cool OT post...

Reminds me of the old Blackhawks days when Bobby Hull and company could never get past Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr in the play-offs...then, the one year that they did (1973?), they lost to the Montreal Canadiens in the Finals after holding a 3-2 lead and home ice advantage.

OH, the HORROR !!!

Go Ducks!!

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

sweetcharmedlife Wrote:
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> Go Ducks!!


...(Ahem)...







Quackquackquack....phthfft!!!!!!!!

Canada knows hockey, eh?

How the Leafs do this year EH?

sweetcharmedlife Wrote:
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> How the Leafs do this year EH?


Oh, now some people are just MEAN!

(They sucked. Apparently it's in their contract... )

Sorry STG..........Didn't mean to hit a sore spot........We're still bummed out here 'cuz of the Sharks...............Man Joe Thornton is fun to watch......Thanks again Boston.