Have you ever wondered, how do the NHL players spend their summer, how
do they train and what is the everyday life like for those off-season
months?
This documentary provides you with VIP-seats to see
Patrik Laine, Mikko Rantanen, Rasmus Ristolainen and the others training
under the watchful eye of legendary coach Hannu Rautala up close and
personal during their summer training period.
On our journey
you’ll grow familiar with the sweat of the gym and running track, but
there’s much more to NHL players’ summer than that.
"David Wolf und der große Traum NHL" (Dream NHL) - Sportclub Reportage!
Documentary about German Ice-Hockey-Player David Wolf trying to make his dream come true playing in the best League of the world, NHL, for the Calgary Flames!
Patrice "Bergy"
Bergeron-Cleary (born July 24, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice
hockey centre and alternate captain playing for the Boston Bruins of the
National Hockey League (NHL). He played junior with the Acadie-Bathurst
Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) for one full
season before being selected 45th overall by the Bruins in the 2003 NHL
Entry Draft. He made the immediate jump from junior to the NHL after his
draft and joined the Bruins in 2003--04. Internationally, Bergeron
competes for Team Canada and has won gold medals at the 2004 World
Championships, 2005 World Junior Championships and 2010 Winter Olympics
in Vancouver. Bergeron is the most recent member of the Triple Gold Club
after he won the Stanley Cup with Boston on June 15, 2011. Bergeron
scored two goals including the Stanley Cup winning goal at 14:37 of the first period of Game 7 at Vancouver.
Patrick Timothy Kane, Jr.
(born November 19, 1988) is an American professional ice hockey right
wing/center for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League
(NHL). The Blackhawks selected him with the first overall pick in the
2007 NHL Entry Draft.
Kane won his first career Stanley Cup with
Chicago in 2010, scoring the overtime game-winning goal during Game 6 of
the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals on June 9, 2010.
Celebrate 40 Years of excellence with one of the most storied hockey
franchises of all time. From the inception in 1967 to the Stanley Cup
Championships of the Broad Street Bullies to the Legion of Doom and the
current roster of Super Stars, this DVD has it all. Relive the Flyers
victory over the Soviet champion Central Red Army in 1976 and all the
great moments that make hockey in Philadelphia an institution.
In this documentary, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney takes an extraordinary look at The National Hockey League’s
Chris “Knuckles” Nilan. Born and raised in Boston, this aggressive
enforcer had a simple task: to protect his teammates no matter the cost.
In other words, his teammates knew that he had their backs.
The role of the enforcer is unofficial in ice hockey.
The term is sometimes used synonymously with “fighter”, “tough guy”, or
“goon”. An enforcer’s job is basically to deter and respond to violent
play by the opposing team. When this occurs, the enforcer is expected to
act aggressively by fighting
or attacking the offender. Enforcers are expected to react particularly
harshly to violence targeting their team’s star players or goalies.
For Chris, the role of enforcer often meant a shattered body: he bears
the scars of broken knuckles, lost teeth, bites, torn ligaments, and
multiple finger surgeries. Throughout his career, Chris struggled with
addiction to drugs and the guilt that comes from harming the people
closest to him. But he did what he felt he had to do. Described as one
of the toughest NHL players in the 80s Chris states that in his opinion
most of the people sitting in the stands would like to punch somebody in
the mouth, but they can’t. That’s why they enjoy watching somebody else
do it.
Chris was a fighter from the time he was a child. He was fiercely loyal
and got into many fights defending his friends. When he got drafted to
play in the NHL, it was like a dream come true. During his career, Chris
won the love of hockey’s holy city, Montreal, and helped the team win
the Stanley Cup in 1986. He loved the game so much that his retirement
was unbearable to him. To think that the role of importance he played in
the lives of his teammates had ended abruptly, felt like rejection to
Nilan, and this perception snowballed into a series of really bad
decisions.
A fight during a hockey game is a lot about respect. Players know that
they’re expected to be tough and they comply willingly. Sometimes the
consequences are difficult and painful because of the stress caused by
the responsibility placed on them. Through interviews with dozens of
hockey’s toughest guys, the film explores what it means to enforce the
unspoken code of the NHL.
As
they ready for this year's extravaganza at Gillette Stadium, "EPIX
Presents Road to the NHL Winter Classic" goes behind the scenes with the
Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens. Find out about their age-old
rivalry as two of the "original six" hockey teams, and learn more about
key players like Max Pacioretty, Patrice Bergeron, P.K. Subban, Zdeno
Chara, and legendary hall of famer Milt Schmidt.
In Episode 3, the Bruins and Canadiens find themselves both home and
abroad this holiday season. In Nashville, the Canadiens look for some
top-notch Western gear for teammate Andrei Markov, while Torey Krug and
David Krejci of the Bruins opt to shop for their pets. At home, we visit
with PK Subban and his brother (a Bruin-prospect) Malcolm in Ontario,
while local Bruin Jimmy Hayes gives a tour of his native Boston.
As
they ready for this year's extravaganza at Gillette Stadium, "EPIX
Presents Road to the NHL Winter Classic" goes behind the scenes with the
Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens. Find out about their age-old
rivalry as two of the "original six" hockey teams, and learn more about
key players like Max Pacioretty, Patrice Bergeron, P.K. Subban, Zdeno
Chara, and legendary hall of famer Milt Schmidt.
In Episode 2 of this EPIX Original, follow the Montreal Canadiens as
they try to maintain first place, and the Boston Bruins as they prepare
for a home and home series with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
As
they ready for this year's extravaganza at Gillette Stadium, "EPIX
Presents Road to the NHL Winter Classic" goes behind the scenes with the
Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens. Find out about their age-old
rivalry as two of the "original six" hockey teams, and learn more about
key players like Max Pacioretty, Patrice Bergeron, P.K. Subban, Zdeno
Chara, and legendary hall of famer Milt Schmidt.
Watch the first episode of new Epix’s "Road to the NHL Winter Classic" four-episode series that takes viewers behind the scenes with the Capitals and Blackhawks leading up to and through their outdoor hockey game on New Year’s Day at Nationals Park.
In ice hockey, the goaltender, also known colloquially as the goalie, is the player who defends their team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering their team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring. The goalie usually plays in or near the area in front of the net called the goal crease (often referred to simply as the crease or the net). Goalies tend to stay at or beyond the top of the crease to cut down on the angle of shots. Because of the power of shots, the goaltender wears special equipment designed to protect the body from direct impact. The goalie is one of the most valuable players on the ice, as their performance can greatly change the outcome or score of the game. Only one goalie is allowed to be on the ice for each team at any given time.
A Documentary about the History of Expansion in the National Hockey League.
By
the mid 1960s, the desire for a network television contract in the
U.S., and concerns that the Western Hockey League was planning to
declare itself a major league and challenge for the Stanley Cup, spurred
the NHL to undertake its first expansion since the 1920s. The league
doubled in size for the 1967--68 season, adding the Los Angeles Kings,
Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins,
California Seals and St. Louis Blues. Canadians were outraged that all
six teams were placed in the United States, and the league responded by
adding the Vancouver Canucks in 1970 along with the Buffalo Sabres, who
are located on the U.S.-Canadian border. Two years later, the emergence
of the newly founded World Hockey Association (WHA) led the league to
add the New York Islanders and Atlanta Flames to keep the rival league
out of those markets. In 1974, the Washington Capitals and Kansas City
Scouts were added, bringing the league up to 18 teams. The NHL fought
the WHA for players, losing 67 to the new league in its first season of
1972--73, including Bobby Hull, who signed a ten year, $2.5 million
contract with the Winnipeg Jets, the largest in hockey history at the
time. The NHL attempted to block the defections in court, though a
countersuit by the WHA led to a Philadelphia judge ruling the NHL's
reserve clause to be illegal, eliminating the elder league's monopoly
over the players. Seven years of battling for players and markets
financially damaged both leagues, leading to a 1979 merger agreement
that saw the WHA cease operations while the NHL absorbed the Jets,
Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers and Quebec Nordiques. The NHL's owners
initially rejected this merger agreement by one vote, but a massive
boycott of Molson products by fans in Canada led the Montreal Canadiens,
which were owned by Molson, to reverse their position in a second vote
along with the Vancouver Canucks, allowing the plan to pass. Wayne
Gretzky played one season in the WHA for the Indianapolis Racers before
joining the NHL in 1979--80 with the Oilers.[46] He went on to lead the
Oilers to four Stanley Cup championships in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1988,
and set single season records for goals (92 in 1981--82), assists (163
in 1985--86) and points (215 in 1985--86), as well as career records for
goals (894), assists (1,963) and points (2,857). He was traded to the
Kings in 1988, a deal that dramatically improved the NHL's popularity in
the United States, and provided the impetus for the 1990s expansion
cycles that saw the addition of the San Jose Sharks, Tampa Bay
Lightning, Ottawa Senators, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Florida Panthers,
Nashville Predators, Atlanta Thrashers, and by the turn of the century
the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets.
Broad Street Bullies is a 2010 documentary film produced and directed by veteran documentary filmmaker George Roy for HBO Sports. It chronicles the National Hockey League's (NHL) Philadelphia Flyers from their beginnings as an expansion team in 1967, to their back-to-back Stanley Cup championships (1974, 1975), and three straight Finals appearances (1974--76).
The film includes clips and photos from the era, along with interviews with players, writers, broadcasters, and other individuals involved with the Flyers and/or NHL hockey during that period. It is narrated by Liev Schreiber.
Documents the personal journey of Bill McCreary and Ghislain Hebert with a behind-the-scenes look at the life of a professional referee in the National Hockey League.
Since November 1, 1924, the Boston Bruins have been at the epicenter of hockey in New England.
On that day, a young grocery store financier from Vermont, Charles
Francis Adams, who had fallen in love with the game while watching the
Stanley Cup playoffs, paid the National Hockey League a rumored $15,000
for the privilege of owning a team in the finest hockey league in the
world and icing the first American based squad in the NHL.
After that seminal day, the Bruins have served as the beloved hometown
hockey team for each New England town, hamlet, city and village.
At their best, the squad has been a world-beater, with names such as
Orr, Esposito, Cheevers, Bourque and Neely becoming household words as
they led Boston to numerous division and conference crowns and five
Stanley Cups. And even in the years when they did not post much of a
challenge to their NHL brethren, Boston's hockey team held true to the
notion that Bruins do not leave anything on the ice.
The first manager of the franchise, Art Ross, was a Hall of Fame
innovator who led the team from its infancy through its first three
Stanley Cups. However, his boss Mr. Adams certainly helped cement his
credentials when he purchased the entire Western Canada Hockey League to
supply talent for his club.
Eddie Shore
That substantial purchase yielded Boston's first superstar, Eddie Shore,
the first in a line of Black & Gold clad superstar defensemen.
The stories surrounding Shore are legendary. One of the tamest reads
thusly: He once missed a team train from Boston to Montreal in 1929 and
drove straight through from Boston in a blinding blizzard to arrive in
Montreal at 6:30 on the night of the game. Despite suffering from
frostbite, of course it was Shore who scored the game's only goal in a
B's victory.
But it was a change of venue, and the ascension of the Boston hockey fan
from partisan to true fanatic, that would deliver Lord Stanley's famous
jug to Massachusetts.
From 1924 to 1928, the Bruins played their home games in the venerable
Boston Arena (now Matthews Arena at Northeastern University), but on
November 20, 1928, the B's played their first game in the illustrious
Boston Garden.
If Fenway Park is New England's communal back yard, the Garden was
greater Boston's rec room. Unfortunately for the 17,000-plus in
attendance for the first game in the storied edifice, the Montreal
Canadiens secured a prophetic 1-0 victory.
However, the 1928-29 season heralded the creation of one of the greatest
forward lines hockey has ever seen and gave the Hub its first sip from
the Cup. Dubbed the 'Dynamite Line' because of their offensive
explosiveness, Ralph 'Cooney' Weiland (who would later become a
legendary college hockey coach at Harvard, after coaching Boston to a
Stanley Cup in 1941) centered Aubrey 'Dit' Clapper and Dutch Gainor.
Behind them on the blue line, Shore and fellow future Hockey Hall of
Fame defenseman Lionel Hitchman protected the legendary Cecil 'Tiny'
Thompson in the B's net, and together they brought home Boston's first
NHL championship.
Milt Schmidt
The 1930's saw the B's compile five first-place finishes, with many
individual honors accrued. Thompson captured the Vezina Trophy as the
league's premier goalie four times, meanwhile Shore was awarded the Hart
Trophy (NHL MVP) four times as well. But it was another legendary
goalie, Frank 'Mr. Zero' Brimsek, who alongside Mr. Shore, lead Boston
to another championship after the 1938-39 season. That year Milt
Schmidt, a young man from Kitchener, Ontario, joined shore, Brimsek,
Clapper and Weiland and would play a very significant role in B's
history.
Schmidt, who would later go on to be the only person ever to serve the
Boston club in the capacity of player, captain, coach and General
Manager was joined by linemates and hometown buddies Bobby Bauer and
Woody Dumart. Together, the 'Kitchener Kids' or more famously the 'Kraut
Line' (because of their shared German heritage) terrorized the NHL on
their way to their third Cup (and second in three years.).
Although the Bruins made it to the Cup finals in 1943, World War II
dismantled a budding dynasty in the early '40's as Schmidt, Bauer and
Dumart enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and goalie Brimsek (a
Minnesota native) left leaving to join the American war effort.
The 1950's did see three Stanley Cup finals appearances, but Boston only
finished as high as second during the decade, and that high just once.
Milt Schmidt retired in late December 1954 and assumed the coaching
reigns, but despite his best efforts the team did not make the playoffs
until 1968.
John "Chief" Bucyk
One very bright spot of the 1950's was the arrival, via a 1957 trade
with the Detroit Red Wings, of future Hockey Hall of Fame left wing,
John Bucyk.
"Chief" played 21 season in a Bruins uniform, held every team career
offensive record for over 20 years and, to this day, remains the team's
all-time leading goal scorer. He would go on to serve as team captain
for five seasons and had his name engraved on the Stanley Cup twice and
was rewarded with the Lady Byng Trophy as the league's most gentlemanly
player twice. He continues on with the club (in the capacity of Team
Road Services Coordinator) and recently celebrated 50 years with the
organization.
One historical highlight came on January 18, 1958 when Fredericton, New
Brunswick, Canada native Willie O'Ree became the first black player to
participate in a regular season NHL game. During the 1957-58 season
O'Ree saw action in two games with the Bruins.
The greatest defenseman of all time, Bobby Orr, arrived during the
1966-67 season and began his Hall of Fame career with a Calder Trophy
(given the NHL's top rookie) and a second-team All-Star selection. With
Orr in the fold under the tutelage of head coach Harry Sinden and with
Schmidt now the GM, the Bruins began an amazing run of success.
Spurred on by the acquisition of offensive stars Phil Esposito, Ken
Hodge and Fred Stanfield from Chicago, the Bruins entered the 1970's as
the team to beat in the NHL.
Bobby Orr
These were magical years for Bruins fans, as Orr set league records and
standards for defensemen, Esposito became the first player in NHL
history to record a 100+ point season and Gerry Cheevers seemed to stop
every puck shot towards his goal. In 1969-70, Orr became the only player
to ever win the Norris, Hart, Ross and Smythe Trophies in a single
season. In the playoffs that year, everything came together in near
perfection and in the final game, against St. Louis for the Stanley Cup,
the score was tied 3-3 after 60 minutes of regulation. As the overtime
commenced, folk hero Derek Sanderson fed Orr whose shot found a break in
Blues goalie Glenn Hall's pads.
Orr sailed through the air in front of the cage and into history, not
only as the man who returned the Stanley Cup to Boston after an absence
of 29 years, but perhaps also as the greatest player of all time.
In 1971-72 the magic came back as the Stanley Cup returned to Boston
after a year's hiatus. The Bruins went through the playoffs losing only
three games in taking the quarterfinals from Toronto, 4-1, and sweeping
St. Louis in a four-game semifinal to set up the Final vs. the NY
Rangers. Orr set an NHL record for assists in the playoffs with 19 and
for points in the playoffs by a defenseman with 24. On May 11, 1972 in
New York, the Bruins took their second sip from the Jug in three years
with a 3-0 win over the Rangers. Orr became the first player ever to win
two Smythe Trophies as he again scored the Cup-winning goal.
Terry O'Reilly
The rest of the seventies were exciting for the Bruins and their
faithful fans, what with the club reaching the finals in 1974, 77 and 78
and the arrivals of defenseman Brad Park (another Hockey Hall of Famer)
in 1975. However, the legendary Orr would be beset by injury and he
would play very few games alongside the talented Park before moving on
to Chicago in 1976.
Under the new ownership of the Jacobs family, during the late 1970's
'Lunch Pail A.C.' and the 'Big Bad Bruins' replaced the firepower of Orr
and Esposito, and despite the lack of superstar talent, the B's had
superstar heart embodied in the bench bound bravado of coach Don Cherry
(he served from 1974-79) and Terry O'Reilly.
O'Reilly epitomized the Bruins of his generation with his toughness
combined with offense. He is one of only four players to lead the team
in scoring and penalty minutes in the same season and served as team
captain from 1983 to 1985. He still ranks eighth on the team's all-time
scoring list and is the B's all time leader in penalty minutes.
Under O'Reilly (as his captain, and later as his coach), a young
defenseman from Quebec would lead the Boston charge into the 1980's.
Ray Bourque
Raymond Bourque would begin his twenty-year tenure on the Boston Blue
line. Bourque was the first non-goaltender in league history to win the
Calder Trophy and also be named a First Team All-Star in his rookie
season (1979-80). Bourque emerged as the leagues preeminent defenseman,
won five Norris Trophies and would finish his career in Boston as the
team's all-time leader in games, assists and points.
But playoff success in the form of Stanley Cup Finals appearances did
not emerge until, in 1986, Sinden (who would remain the team's GM until
2000) engineered a trade with Vancouver, which yielded power forward Cam
Neely.
Named an NHL All-Star on four occasions, Neely led the team in goals in
seven of his ten seasons, including three 50-goal seasons, and holds the
team record of goals by a wing with 55 in 1989-90. He won the Masterton
Trophy for dedication in 1993-94 when he scored 50 goals in just 44
games after missing most of the previous two seasons with thigh, knee
and hip injuries. He, like Orr, played until it simply hurt too much to
continue.
Encouragingly, the Bruins reached the NHL finals in 1988 and '90, but
ran into the powerful Edmonton Oilers teams captained first by superstar
Wayne Gretzky ('88) and then by the ubiquitous Mark Messier ('90) and
were only able to muster one win between the two final series.
Cam Neely
However, led by Bourque and Neely, as well as fine goaltending in the
form of Andy Moog and Reggie Lemelin, an unprecedented string of success
against the Montreal Canadiens highlighted the early to mid 1990's as
the B's defeated their legendary rivals, and their Hall of Fame goalie
Patrick Roy, in three straight playoff match ups during the decade.
However, perhaps having saved their best for le bleu, blanc et rouge, the B's failed to qualify for the Stanley Cup Finals.
That success against the Habs and a change of venue for the club in
1995, when the team moved to the building now named the TD Garden,
brought an air of optimism to the city.
But early playoff exits in the conference quarterfinals, the retirement
of Neely, two playoff DNQ's and the departure of Bourque had the Bruins
on shaky ground to start the millennium.
However, high draft selections in the form of Joe Thornton, Sergei
Samsonov and Nick Boynton, added to names like Glen Murray, Hal Gill,
Byron Dafoe, Brian Rolston and Kyle McLaren, had the Bruins of the
pre-lockout NHL competing at a high level until the playoffs where they
were twice derailed by Montreal, once by Buffalo and once by New Jersey.
After the lockout and the trade of Thornton, acquisitions like current
captain Zdeno Chara and Marc Savard, as well as the additions of
veterans including Mark Recchi, Shawn Thornton, Andrew Ference and
Dennis Seidenberg (coupled with the continued development of Patrice
Bergeron, David Krejci, Tim Thomas and Milan Lucic),
lent a hopeful tone to the second half of the first decade of the new
millennium, especially as Cam Neely, now the team's president, General
Manger Peter Chiarelli, Assistant General Managers Jim Benning and
former Bruins standout Don Sweeney, steered a course to victory in the
contemporary NHL.
That leadership group, anchored by the play of Vezina trophy winner
Thomas, led the Bruins to the 2011 Stanley Cup to end a 39-year title
drought. Coming into the playoffs as the seventh seed, the Bruins
eliminated the Montreal Canadiens in dramatic fashion, swept the
Philadelphia Flyers, battled past the Tampa Bay Lightning, and rose
above the Vancouver Canucks in Game 7 to win The Cup. Text by Bruins / NHL.com
