<< <i>Danny Moreno, Danny Newman I cant believe that guy from Astoria stole all the fake names i wanted to use
I will give you a hint . Im the ebay user that took you and your paypal account down in 2002. How many people did you end up ripping off then >>
hello, I don't have a paypal account, and I am not from Astoria. I'm not in Oregon, so how could I be from Astoria? I still see you evading the answer. Who are you?
<< <i>Why would you contact Mr Westley through ebays contact system concerning a card that you do not collect. Maybe Mr Westley can take time out and post exactly what you asked him that he needed to provide a response.
If for nothing else we can see your the biddingstopshere ebay name at the top of it or your new ebay name
You know my ebay name was going to be bidittowinit but you know someone i know took that name bid up everyones auctions and then didnt pay them. They told me he was from Astoria . Its a very sad story >>
Hey doods I'm thebiddingstops here. (someone drops their coffe cup in the back)
Someone sticking their blah blah into the blah blah, get a grip I love my 50 examples of hal smith psa 7's say I dont prove it. Just because you dont have the nuts to go over 5 bucks of book isnt my prob!
Before this thread i would be willing to bet 95% of the people on this board had never heard of Tony Leswick. Enough with the Antitrust laws how be we talk a little hockey. This article appeared in this mornings Detroit Free Press about Tony Leswick. Always one of my favorite stories and the writer is correct more than a few Montreal Canadiens are still bitter about that goal . Butch Bouchard for instance and it all but sealed Gerry McNeils fate in the NHL
No match to Wings' '54 Cup winner
Leswick's shot found net in OT of Game 7 April 7, 2004
BY JOHN CHAPUT FREE PRESS SPECIAL WRITER
There have been flukier goals and more dramatic goals, but nothing has combined those qualities like the goal Tony Leswick scored for the Red Wings 50 years ago this month.
'54 STANLEY CUP FINALS April 4: at Detroit 3, Montreal 1 April 6: Montreal 3, at Detroit 1
April 8: Detroit 5, at Montreal 2
April 10: Detroit 2, at Montreal 0
April 11: Montreal 1, at Detroit 0 (OT)
April 13: at Montreal 4, Detroit 1
April 16: at Detroit 2, Montreal 1 (OT)
Fluky? The smallest man on the ice, with one of the weakest shots in the league, flipped a 50-footer that one of the greatest defensemen of all time redirected into his own net.
"You could have caught the puck in your teeth," says Bert Olmstead, who was on the losing side April 16, 1954.
"Tony wasn't even watching the puck," said Metro Prystai, Leswick's linemate. "He heard the crowd yell and all of a sudden he turns around and the puck's in the net."
Dramatic? It gave Detroit a 2-1 overtime victory in the seventh game of the 1954 Stanley Cup finals against the Montreal Canadiens. It was only the second time a Cup finals' seventh game went to overtime, and, half a century later, the situation has yet to recur.
Coincidentally, the Red Wings' Pete Babando achieved the feat first, scoring at 28:31 of overtime to beat the New York Rangers, 4-3, in Game 7 of the 1950 Cup finals.
Some of the men involved in the 1954 game have died. Some live, their memories vivid but not necessarily accurate. Fortunately, films of the series have been preserved on videotape and, best of all, provide views from opposite sides of the rink and an indisputable record.
Fighting to overtime The men quoted here were interviewed for a book on the history of sports in Saskatchewan -- a province which, despite its sparse population, was the birthplace of eight players in this game. Montreal had forwards Olmstead, Elmer Lach, Lorne Davis and Paul Masnick, while Detroit boasted Leswick, Prystai, defenseman Keith Allen and Gordie Howe. Leswick, who died in 2001, stood 5-feet-7 and was 160 pounds of heart, determination and endurance (he missed only two games in 11 seasons), with a gift for irritating opponents.
Detroit finished in first place in 1953-54 for the sixth straight season but had captured only two Stanley Cups (in 1950 and '52) to that point in the streak. Montreal was a strong second (81 points to Detroit's 88) and the defending Cup champion.
Detroit won three of the first four games, its only loss a 3-1 decision in Game 2. Montreal coach Dick Irvin then replaced young goaltender Jacques Plante with veteran Gerry McNeil; the Canadiens responded with a desperate 1-0 overtime win and a convincing 4-1 victory to extend the series.
A record crowd of 15,791 jammed into the Olympia for Game 7. Montreal's Floyd Curry scored midway through the first period and Red Kelly replied on a power play early in the second. Montreal controlled the scoreless third period with a 12-6 advantage in shots and one late near-miss that has been largely forgotten over time . . . but not by everyone.
"It bothers me to this day," Olmstead said.
Lach rubbed Kelly into the boards as the Red Wings' ace defenseman tried to stickhandle out of his end. Rocket Richard pounced on the loose puck and charged to the net, only to be hammered by Detroit's Benny Woit. Richard's stick snapped in half and both men tumbled to the ice, where Richard found the puck unattended in front of the crease. He swatted the puck into the net, but referee Bill Chadwick disallowed the goal immediately.
Richard was unaware that linemate Eddie Mazur was unchecked behind him and, given one more second, had at least a 50-50 chance of lifting the puck over Detroit goalie Terry Sawchuk, who was down in the crease.
"Nobody said a word, and he never said a word about that to me," Olmstead said of Richard. "And I've never forgotten that. I know, and you know, and so did everybody else, that you can't score a goal like that. All he had to do is nothing, and we win the Stanley Cup."
The winner Overtime didn't last long, only 4 minutes, 29 seconds. The final 12 seconds went like this:
Prystai broke up a Canadiens attack in his own end by trapping the puck in his skates. He carried it into the neutral zone and sent it to Glen Skov on the left wing. Skov entered the Montreal zone, went wide and took a weak shot from the outside edge of the face-off circle. McNeil used his blocker to guide the puck into the end boards, where defenseman Doug Harvey whipped it along the dasher to the other wing.
Leswick, a right-handed shot, trapped the puck about 10 feet inside the Montreal blue line. He immediately took a short backswing, less than two feet, and directed the puck at the net. Skov had moved into the slot with Harvey right behind him, about 10 feet in front of McNeil. Harvey lifted his left hand just above his hip to stop or catch the shot, but it only glanced off his thumb and veered slightly to the right (McNeil's left). McNeil, who was gathering his arms into his abdomen to smother the puck, couldn't react until it passed his left shoulder, just under the crossbar. Goal. Game, series and season over.
Several myths sprang from the goal:
Leswick shot the puck from the neutral zone. (False.)
Leswick was almost back to the Detroit bench when it went in. (False.)
The puck floated softly to the net in a high arc. (False.)
The Canadiens left the ice without shaking hands. (True!)
"It felt just as if somebody reached in your pocket and took two-thousand dollars out of it," says Davis, who was about to take the Canadiens' next shift. "When we got to the dressing room, we realized we hadn't shaken hands. We tried to come out of our room and walk down to theirs but the fans wouldn't let us."
Davis was traded the following October to the Chicago Blackhawks, where he played only eight games before being shipped to Detroit for Prystai. Davis' brief time in Chicago included a memorable encounter with Leswick.
"I'm lined up for a face-off against Tony," Davis said, "and he's really giving it to me: yap, yap, yap. Finally I said to him, 'Boy, one goal's keeping you in this league a long time.'
"Jeez, if he doesn't go down and score a goal on that very shift. And he comes back to the face-off at center ice and says to me, 'How many have you got?' "
One year later, the Red Wings won another best-of-seven Cup final from Montreal.
Montreal would get satisfaction in the years to come, especially at the Olympia in 1966, when Henri Richard might, or might not, have pushed in the Cup-winning overtime goal with his right arm.
only the rangers could lose that series ( gordie howe didn't play, injured i believe. )
i ain't often right but I've never been wrong it seldom turns out the way it does in the song once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right
To MacDaddy and NewbietoPSA I sold Tony""Leswick" Westerly a PSA 6,7 and 8 in the last year and a few 53 Parkies in Leswick. PSA is now setting up a set call Leswick the "All Star"who never saw his goal go in .You can put as many of the same card on it with scans so everyone can see and wish they had one. If you go to a dealer who has one he has Tony's price list which supercedes the PSA SMR for this card Its in $ 's starting with 3 digits and going up to 5. I also sold a PSA 8 to another Registry Member in January. Well Good hunting for PSA 4's Krazy
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<< <i>You sound like a fortune cookie
.........try to think of it as just deserts >>
I personally like chocolate mousse
I will give you a hint . Im the ebay user that took you and your paypal account down in 2002. How many people did you end up ripping off then
<< <i>Danny Moreno, Danny Newman I cant believe that guy from Astoria stole all the fake names i wanted to use
I will give you a hint . Im the ebay user that took you and your paypal account down in 2002. How many people did you end up ripping off then >>
hello, I don't have a paypal account, and I am not from Astoria. I'm not in Oregon, so how could I be from Astoria? I still see you evading the answer. Who are you?
Gosh, I forgot about that one.
.....when this clown was trying to tell us he tested his shipping by throwing the packages off his roof.
<< <i>Zodiac,
Gosh, I forgot about that one.
.....when this clown was trying to tell us he tested his shipping by throwing the packages off his roof.
I never did a thing? You guys should write fiction, you're great at it. Doncherry, who are? Why are you avoiding the question?
I meant to say "that" clown....not "this" clown
<< <i>Why would you contact Mr Westley through ebays contact system concerning a card that you do not collect. Maybe Mr Westley can take time out and post exactly what you asked him that he needed to provide a response.
If for nothing else we can see your the biddingstopshere ebay name at the top of it or your new ebay name
You know my ebay name was going to be bidittowinit but you know someone i know took that name bid up everyones auctions and then didnt pay them. They told me he was from Astoria . Its a very sad story >>
Hey doods I'm thebiddingstops here. (someone drops their coffe cup in the back)
Someone sticking their blah blah into the blah blah, get a grip I love my 50 examples of hal smith psa 7's say I dont prove it. Just because you dont have the nuts to go over 5 bucks of book isnt my prob!
Gator
My Auctions
There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"
If we let this man purchase all the Leswicks, we will have let the terrorists win . . .
POTD = 09/03/2003
No match to Wings' '54 Cup winner
Leswick's shot found net in OT of Game 7
April 7, 2004
BY JOHN CHAPUT
FREE PRESS SPECIAL WRITER
There have been flukier goals and more dramatic goals, but nothing has combined those qualities like the goal Tony Leswick scored for the Red Wings 50 years ago this month.
'54 STANLEY CUP FINALS
April 4: at Detroit 3, Montreal 1
April 6: Montreal 3, at Detroit 1
April 8: Detroit 5, at Montreal 2
April 10: Detroit 2, at Montreal 0
April 11: Montreal 1, at Detroit 0 (OT)
April 13: at Montreal 4, Detroit 1
April 16: at Detroit 2, Montreal 1 (OT)
Fluky? The smallest man on the ice, with one of the weakest shots in the league, flipped a 50-footer that one of the greatest defensemen of all time redirected into his own net.
"You could have caught the puck in your teeth," says Bert Olmstead, who was on the losing side April 16, 1954.
"Tony wasn't even watching the puck," said Metro Prystai, Leswick's linemate. "He heard the crowd yell and all of a sudden he turns around and the puck's in the net."
Dramatic? It gave Detroit a 2-1 overtime victory in the seventh game of the 1954 Stanley Cup finals against the Montreal Canadiens. It was only the second time a Cup finals' seventh game went to overtime, and, half a century later, the situation has yet to recur.
Coincidentally, the Red Wings' Pete Babando achieved the feat first, scoring at 28:31 of overtime to beat the New York Rangers, 4-3, in Game 7 of the 1950 Cup finals.
Some of the men involved in the 1954 game have died. Some live, their memories vivid but not necessarily accurate. Fortunately, films of the series have been preserved on videotape and, best of all, provide views from opposite sides of the rink and an indisputable record.
Fighting to overtime
The men quoted here were interviewed for a book on the history of sports in Saskatchewan -- a province which, despite its sparse population, was the birthplace of eight players in this game. Montreal had forwards Olmstead, Elmer Lach, Lorne Davis and Paul Masnick, while Detroit boasted Leswick, Prystai, defenseman Keith Allen and Gordie Howe. Leswick, who died in 2001, stood 5-feet-7 and was 160 pounds of heart, determination and endurance (he missed only two games in 11 seasons), with a gift for irritating opponents.
Detroit finished in first place in 1953-54 for the sixth straight season but had captured only two Stanley Cups (in 1950 and '52) to that point in the streak. Montreal was a strong second (81 points to Detroit's 88) and the defending Cup champion.
Detroit won three of the first four games, its only loss a 3-1 decision in Game 2. Montreal coach Dick Irvin then replaced young goaltender Jacques Plante with veteran Gerry McNeil; the Canadiens responded with a desperate 1-0 overtime win and a convincing 4-1 victory to extend the series.
A record crowd of 15,791 jammed into the Olympia for Game 7. Montreal's Floyd Curry scored midway through the first period and Red Kelly replied on a power play early in the second. Montreal controlled the scoreless third period with a 12-6 advantage in shots and one late near-miss that has been largely forgotten over time . . . but not by everyone.
"It bothers me to this day," Olmstead said.
Lach rubbed Kelly into the boards as the Red Wings' ace defenseman tried to stickhandle out of his end. Rocket Richard pounced on the loose puck and charged to the net, only to be hammered by Detroit's Benny Woit. Richard's stick snapped in half and both men tumbled to the ice, where Richard found the puck unattended in front of the crease. He swatted the puck into the net, but referee Bill Chadwick disallowed the goal immediately.
Richard was unaware that linemate Eddie Mazur was unchecked behind him and, given one more second, had at least a 50-50 chance of lifting the puck over Detroit goalie Terry Sawchuk, who was down in the crease.
"Nobody said a word, and he never said a word about that to me," Olmstead said of Richard. "And I've never forgotten that. I know, and you know, and so did everybody else, that you can't score a goal like that. All he had to do is nothing, and we win the Stanley Cup."
The winner
Overtime didn't last long, only 4 minutes, 29 seconds. The final 12 seconds went like this:
Prystai broke up a Canadiens attack in his own end by trapping the puck in his skates. He carried it into the neutral zone and sent it to Glen Skov on the left wing. Skov entered the Montreal zone, went wide and took a weak shot from the outside edge of the face-off circle. McNeil used his blocker to guide the puck into the end boards, where defenseman Doug Harvey whipped it along the dasher to the other wing.
Leswick, a right-handed shot, trapped the puck about 10 feet inside the Montreal blue line. He immediately took a short backswing, less than two feet, and directed the puck at the net. Skov had moved into the slot with Harvey right behind him, about 10 feet in front of McNeil. Harvey lifted his left hand just above his hip to stop or catch the shot, but it only glanced off his thumb and veered slightly to the right (McNeil's left). McNeil, who was gathering his arms into his abdomen to smother the puck, couldn't react until it passed his left shoulder, just under the crossbar. Goal. Game, series and season over.
Several myths sprang from the goal:
Leswick shot the puck from the neutral zone. (False.)
Leswick was almost back to the Detroit bench when it went in. (False.)
The puck floated softly to the net in a high arc. (False.)
The Canadiens left the ice without shaking hands. (True!)
"It felt just as if somebody reached in your pocket and took two-thousand dollars out of it," says Davis, who was about to take the Canadiens' next shift. "When we got to the dressing room, we realized we hadn't shaken hands. We tried to come out of our room and walk down to theirs but the fans wouldn't let us."
Davis was traded the following October to the Chicago Blackhawks, where he played only eight games before being shipped to Detroit for Prystai. Davis' brief time in Chicago included a memorable encounter with Leswick.
"I'm lined up for a face-off against Tony," Davis said, "and he's really giving it to me: yap, yap, yap. Finally I said to him, 'Boy, one goal's keeping you in this league a long time.'
"Jeez, if he doesn't go down and score a goal on that very shift. And he comes back to the face-off at center ice and says to me, 'How many have you got?' "
One year later, the Red Wings won another best-of-seven Cup final from Montreal.
Montreal would get satisfaction in the years to come, especially at the Olympia in 1966, when Henri Richard might, or might not, have pushed in the Cup-winning overtime goal with his right arm.
Ah, but that was only a six-game series.
only the rangers could lose that series ( gordie
howe didn't play, injured i believe. )
but I've never been wrong
it seldom turns out the way
it does in the song
once in a while
you get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right
Guess I should not say anything about the 250 raw 54 Howe's I have in mint ungraded condition...
I might be accused of being a Wings Fan.
Oh- btw Nashville...we just kicked yo arse 3-1.
Go Wings!!!
J/k bout the Howe's.
Awesome post. I have never heard that story before. Thanks for diffusing the nonsense and getting us back on track.
Rob..
this guy is truly amazing