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These old time hockey pics look surreal. It’s like someone photoshopped the spectators in.



These old time hockey pics look surreal. It’s like someone photoshopped the spectators in.

by michiganhockeyguy

28 Comments

  1. BadgerinBaltimore23

    I didn’t know John McEnroe played for the Wings.

  2. akita_4u

    Spectators Look straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting

  3. JEMHADLEY16

    You can always tell a shot of an old crowd. Nobody has any team gear on. There just wasn’t that much of the stuff available…

  4. ThusSpokeGaba

    It’s like a Norman Rockwell painting

  5. SnooDogs9048

    By looking a the audience, i feel hockey tickets was not as expensive than today

  6. Warm_Gur8832

    Pinstripe pants need to be back in fashion again

  7. Particular_Tutor_46

    Looks like a Norman Rockwell painting.

  8. JEMHADLEY16

    I figured it was 70 or 71. I don’t remember the Sabres having a maskless goaltender. I only remember Gump Worsley and Andy Brown playing that way after 70…

  9. Ordinary-Cucumber-25

    Even the women have mustaches

  10. cormack49

    Gary Bettman having a seizure looking at this because of all the unused add space

  11. TenRingRedux

    Goalie wearing a headband to hold his face and head together if he takes a puck or (Gordie Howe’s stick!) to the face!

  12. StPatrick174

    When did wearing jerseys, team shirts, etc start to become common place?

  13. Independent_Ad_3928

    The thumbnail made it look like the goalie was wearing a Naruto-headband.

  14. Otterslayer22

    I also find it interesting just how dirty the ice surface seems.

  15. Hefty_Palpitation113

    The goalie is Joe Daley, the only Sabres netminder to go maskless. He was also the first Sabre as Punch Imlach claimed him off waivers shortly before drafting Gilbert Perreault. Daley backed up Roger Crozier for the Sabres inaugural season in 1970.

  16. Bobisburnsred

    If it wasn’t for the clear logos on the sweaters you would think that it was AI generated.

  17. pixellabber

    Always surprises me that things like the boards are chewed up, and the nets are rusty and missing paint. This is the best league in the world… looks more like the rinks I played beer league in! Different times.

  18. Youralgebra3

    It’s kind of wild not seeing a single jersey in the crowd lol.

  19. suburban_paradise

    How could anyone tell who they were rooting for without wearing $240 replica jerseys

  20. JuanMichelBasquiat

    you sure this is a photograph? none of the spectators look real lol

  21. I’m old enough to have gone to games as a kid and seen Howe play.

    I don’t know much about photography but I sure don’t remember how the arena at the time (probably Olympia) was that brightly lit that a camera would pick up all the people in the seats.

  22. devildance3

    Kids in the front row rocking those stripped pants.

  23. Atty_for_hire

    The saturation on this photo is legit. The blue and gold of the Sabres really gets me going.

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