Team signatures from the glory days of the NHL
Six team league of 1966-67 signatures from legendary Canadiens and Bruins. Post expansion signatures from among the 12 team 1968-69 season include the Canadiens, Oakland Seals, Minnesota North Stars and Philadelphia Flyers. Great memories. Great era.
* Featuring 16 unique Hall of Famer signatures, with 3 that signed in three different seasons and 6 that signed in two different seasons .
* Includes HOF Guy LaFleur and Bobby Orr’s rookie signatures.
* Signatures were collected by each of the teams’ captains at the time.
Featuring 5 teams and 7 autographed "rinks"
Each set of full team's autographs collected by the team's captain
3 seasons of autographs!
*Guy LaFleur rookie signature. Collected by HOF Jean Beliveau (1st two) and Henri Richard
Full team autographs!
*Bobby Orr rookie signature. Collected by HOF Captain Johnny Bucyk
Greatest of them all?
Number 4 Bobby Orr. In his 12 seasons (the first 10 in Boston). Only damaged knees could shorten his career. He was plus-124 in 78 games in 1970!
Featuring the rookie autograph from all-time great Bobby Orr
(along with his teammates).
"Everybody knows that Bobby Orr is the greatest player who ever lived"
— Don Cherry
Legendary Bruins Coach
(part 2 of this video with Orr on Bruins page)
Games/highlight videos Bruins vs. Habs '70-'71 season
Full 1970 regular season game on NBC
Full 1971 reg. season game on CBC
Highlights game 7 Habs upset playoff win
Signatures from Hall of Fame Habs
Trois équipes Canadiens légendaires!
Among the teammates on the three Canadien signed boards, are these:
1966-'67 HOF player signatures
Jean Beliveau (C),
Coach "Toe" Blake,
Henri Richard,
Yvan Cournoyer,
Jacques Laperrière,
Gump Worsley,
Dick Duff
1968-'69 HOF player signatures
Jean Beliveau (C),
Tony Esposito (R),
Henri Richard,
Yvan Cournoyer,
Jacques Laperrière,
Gump Worsley,
Dick Duff,
Serge Savard,
Jaques Lemaire
1971-'72 HOF player signatures
Henri Richard (C),
Frank Mahovlich,
Yvan Cournoyer,
Jacques Lemaire,
Jacques Laperrière,
Guy LaFleur (R),
Serge Savard
About these items
This collection will be sold at a future date TBD
It’s a one of a kind, special collection. Where else can you see practically entire teams’ autographs, amazingly gathered by the respective team captains.
Canadiens/Bruins rivalry in images
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Featured rink coaches
Here are some of the coaches who led the teams who autographed these rinks (including two of the three Canadien coaches during the three seasons: Claude Ruel and Toe Blake)!
Players scoring an impressive 90% of all their teams' collective goals signed these
Another way of saying this is that virtually every key, regular player in the lineups signed the rinks.
Note that there were trades during the year and signers represent one snapshot moment in time while the rink was in the captains hands, collecting teammates John Henry’s.
Of the 271 regular season goals, 270 of them were scored by the 19 signers of that rink, including Toe Blake.
The Bruins of that season had its 20 rink signers score 171 of a total of 182 goals. (Bobby Orr had 13 of them.)
In its second year of existence in ’67-’68, Moose Vasko acquired signatures from those representing 95.7% of all his team’s goal scoring.
With help from Captain Ted Hampson, equally as impressive, signatures represent 96% of goal scorers in his team’s 2nd season ever.