There was no approach to watch, except you have been one of many 17,500 folks fortunate sufficient to have tickets for that Friday night, to be there when the puck dropped at 9 o’clock, to nonetheless be there 2 ¹/₂ hours later when the final nice intramural New York sports activities rivalry was born.
Perhaps you have been one of many alternately fortunate ones whose home was wired for HBO, so that you additionally had MSG Community in its infancy. Most didn’t know anybody like that. So when the Islanders confronted the Rangers in Recreation 3 of the 1975 preliminary spherical of the NHL playoffs, it was WMCA radio all the way in which, Dom Valentino and Bob Lawrence on the decision.
That was April 11, 1975. Fifty years in the past Friday.
It was your personal creativeness that put the items collectively round 11:30 or so, gone bedtime, shortly after the Islanders by some means blew a 3-0 third-period lead: Jude Drouin successful the additional time faceoff, pushing the puck to defenseman Bert Marshall, who slid it to his blue-line accomplice Dave Lewis, who dumped it into the Rangers’ zone.
