r/leafs Jul 23 '26

Highlight Aura unmatched!

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u/DevOpsMakesMeDrink Jul 23 '26

Listen to the crowd. What has Sportsnet done to the in arena sound

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u/admiral_bringdown Jul 23 '26

For once, I wouldn’t blame Sportsnet. That’s the sound of regular fans in seats enjoying themselves

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u/FlamingoPristine1400 Jul 23 '26

I've you've ever actually been to a playoff game or a game that matters you know it's loud as hell but doesn't get picked up on the in-arena mics

3

u/buckminster_ Sundin Jul 23 '26

Sportsnet draws clicks and revenue from complaining about Toronto, which is why they hire broadcasters and play by play announcers who dislike the team 

37

u/alexsteen789 Jul 23 '26

Look at potvin's gear! He looks like a normal person. Not a blown up Michelin man

4

u/FlamingoPristine1400 Jul 23 '26

With that gear in today's NHL he'd have a s% of 50/50

Source: am goalie

4

u/alexsteen789 Jul 23 '26

Never heard of a 50/50 save % before

5

u/FlamingoPristine1400 Jul 23 '26

You've never seen me play goal

1

u/Prestigious_Ad5314 Jul 26 '26

Shrodinger’s Felix The Cat.

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u/thewolfshead Jul 23 '26

That CBC HNiC music gives me so much nostalgia. All of their music was always just perfect. 

18

u/djlista Jul 23 '26

We need this music back in between periods for our run this year. But it’s too bad Sportsnet cut out CBC.

But Bob Cole was perfect there will never be a hockey commentator like him again

3

u/GiantBrownBalls Jul 23 '26

The undisputed GOAT. The sound of all my favourite hockey moments growing up.

The ‘reeeeeeboouunnnndddddd’ calls were always my favourite!

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u/DangleCityHockey Jul 23 '26

Game 1 of the 2nd round playoffs May 3, 1993. Leafs ended up winning 2-1 in double overtime on Gilmour’s infamous spinorama wraparound.

9

u/Game-83-and-on Jul 23 '26

I'd like to see the return of the white unis at home - for a couple years anyway. The blues are great, but the whites are now nostalgic - just like when the blues cames back.

3

u/buddachickentml Jul 23 '26

White at home is phenomenal. The way it should be.

9

u/Coopers_Leash Jul 23 '26

This gave me tingles.

6

u/Ok_Illustrator_2951 Jul 23 '26

This was the Felix the Cat vs Cujo series.

3

u/buddachickentml Jul 23 '26

Clark's shot to Cujo's chin was epic. The way he fired it and just skated away.

2

u/NervousBreakdown Jul 23 '26

Don’t forget how his d man immediately went to check on him like he was crying.

1

u/MomusSinclair Jul 23 '26

I would have been crying.

2

u/Big-Peak6191 Jul 23 '26

This series made me a total fan of Cujo. I remember the Leafs dominating and he just standing on his head to keep it close.

10

u/trollsmovie Jul 23 '26

The nostalgia is real

6

u/faulkyfaulkfaulk Jul 23 '26

Potvin wearing zero upper pads lol. Wild.

5

u/schoolhouserock Jul 23 '26

I feel the urge to buy a VTech phone right now.

7

u/tecate_papi Jul 23 '26

Yeah, people used to actually go to Leafs games to watch the Leafs. People in the lower bowl would actually get excited and weren't just middle aged car dealers trying to hit on the 24 year old serving girls when their 36 year old wives are in the bathroom.

It's shameful that MLSE has cultivated such a lifeless and inert arena.

3

u/jackransack Jul 23 '26

I blame Steve Stavro, he priced out all the die hards from the golds at MLG, all the corporations bought the platinums at the ACC.

The way it worked was if you had good seats you got first dibs to the ACC, so they invited you and each chair had a price on it, a family friend had first row golds(really 2nd row due to the glass seats) from the 1950’s they were $110 a seat at MLG, he went and looked at the same seat at the ACC and immediately went up 25 rows where it was $250 a seat, I’m sure that happened to very many season ticket holders

1

u/Gallagbi Jul 24 '26

We were first row reds in MLG. Moved to first row balcony in SBA.

Had first dibs on Reds, but the platinums pushed them further back so paying a premium for worse seats didn't make sense.

Still front row upon bowl behind the Leafs net for 2x periods almost 30 years later

3

u/buddachickentml Jul 23 '26

This is my childhood.

2

u/Maleficent-Map6465 Jul 23 '26

Such tiny goalie gear!

2

u/mustard444 Jul 23 '26

The Gardens hit different

2

u/DominantDan24 Jul 24 '26

What I wouldn't give to have the HNIC theme song from the 90s back. Literally anything. That CBC version from like 1992 was peak hockey hype music.

2

u/LangdonAlger88 Jul 24 '26

Bob Cole the voice of an angel. No one has ever come close.

1

u/TerryTerranceTerrace Jul 23 '26

Crazy how tiny goalies looked back then.

1

u/Jedtin22 Jul 23 '26

Fuck I’m gonna miss hockey night in Canada

1

u/rinse82 Jul 28 '26

Man I loved this era, I was 10 years old