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Oldest known colour telecast of an NHL game from 1968
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Re: Oldest known colour telecast of an NHL game from 1968
And yet this is from after the Leafs last won the Stanley Cup.
(I’m still solidly a Leafs fan, despite my location these days)
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On March 24, 1965, a game between the Habs and Leafs was an experimental colour broadcast. NBC telecast games 1 and 4 of the 1966 Stanley Cup Final between Detroit and Montreal in colour. I think HNIC began colour broadcasts for the 1966-67 season.
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Maybo wrote:
If memory serves, the ice was painted a light blue in Detroit for those colour TV broadcasts in the 1966 final.
Your memory does serve you correctly.
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Re: Oldest known colour telecast of an NHL game from 1968
The headline should read oldest known surviving colour telecast of an NHL game from 1968. Obviously there were NHL colour telecasts before that time, but the recordings have not survived.
Last edited by Dale Patterson (November 8, 2022 3:39 pm)
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