Highlights 16-17 - Penguins vs. Ducks (10⁄15⁄2016) (Special Ceremonies) - video Dailymotion

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00:00This season marks the Penguins

00:0250th anniversary and throughout

00:05the year we will celebrate the

00:06great teams and outstanding

00:08players of the franchise.

00:10There's been much to celebrate

00:11throughout the Penguins rich

00:12history including this past

00:14season of course when the Pens

00:15won their fourth Stanley Cup.

00:17Tonight we celebrate the early

00:19years and those players who

00:21paved the way for success.

00:25Good evening ladies and

00:25gentlemen I'm Mike Lang.

00:27This season Pittsburgh is proud

00:29to celebrate their 50th

00:30anniversary in the NHL.

00:32The Penguins early years aren't

00:34so much remembered for winning

00:35as it was about cultivating the

00:37NHL experience in Pittsburgh

00:39and simply surviving as an NHL

00:41franchise.

00:42So tonight we take you back to

00:44the very beginning with a quick

00:46look at the early years from

00:471967 to 1975.

00:51Although still years away from

00:52championship glory this was the

00:54foundation that was laid for the

00:56Pittsburgh Penguins franchise we

00:58know today.

00:59It's the early years right now.

01:06Pittsburgh was totally in need of

01:07a revitalization.

01:08Pittsburgh would never be

01:10considered a big league city

01:12without having a big league

01:14hockey team.

01:16Jack McGregor was a local state

01:18senator.

01:19He wasn't the individual owner but

01:22he led a group of local businessmen

01:24some of the great names in

01:25Pittsburgh history including Hines

01:27and Mellon to invest in this

01:29concept of an NHL team coming here

01:31to Pittsburgh.

01:31Our main objective this year is to

01:33finish at or near the top of the

01:35new division and this is what we

01:37intend to do.

01:38It was a city you know coming out

01:40of an era and about to enter a new

01:41one.

01:41The Pittsburgh Penguins one of the

01:44new teams in the National Hockey

01:45League this year.

01:47In back of me you look at the Civic

01:49Arena where we'll play our 37 home

01:52games.

01:53This is the puck that we dropped

01:56that night.

02:06The excitement was took your breath

02:09away.

02:10It was close to a sellout.

02:12It was took many a year before that

02:15many people showed up again.

02:18In the early going we were up and

02:19down kind of team.

02:21And I was bought on a napkin so

02:23Jack Riley told me.

02:25We didn't have that superstar that

02:29carries you up and I thought at one

02:31point maybe Breer was the guy.

02:33They won't leave you alone so I

02:35just if they gave me a stick I gave

02:37a mistake that's all.

02:39I remember Jack Riley telling us

02:40about Michel Breer when he drafted

02:42him.

02:43He was excited about getting him.

02:44He said he was a talented kid we

02:46were going to like him and boy was he

02:47going to be good.

02:49Phil Apps, Lowell McDonald, Jean

02:52Pronovale.

02:53The Century Line as they combined

02:54for a hundred goals.

02:55The team itself actually was a

02:57pretty good hockey club.

02:59I remember playing our first game

03:00against the Cleveland Crusaders.

03:01It was a preseason against the

03:03World Hockey and it was like 2,000

03:04people in a building and I turned

03:06to Jean Pronovale and I said what's

03:08going on?

03:09He goes well you know it's tough to

03:10attract and I remember telling him

03:11if we win they will come.

03:13People like winners.

03:14In the words of Lucky Pierre, Pierre

03:16LaRouche.

03:17People like winners and to that I can

03:19say, Pittsburgh loves winners.

03:21It's time to head upstairs to public

03:24address announcer Ryan Mill for a very

03:26special presentation.

03:27Let's welcome home some of the most

03:29influential faces and personalities of

03:32the early years.

03:33Ryan, back up the ladder to you.

03:35Thank you Mikey.

03:36It's time to welcome back some of the

03:37greatest players from the early years

03:38of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

03:39Please welcome back from the original

03:411960 17 and right wing number 22 Paul

03:43Andrea.

03:44In goal number 30 Les Binkley.

04:00At left wing number 14 Billy Day.

04:23The first captain of the Penguins number

04:2520 Ab McDonald.

04:36On defense number three Al McNeil.

04:48On defense number four Noel Price.

04:59Former player and Penguins head coach

05:01number 12 Ken Schinkle.

05:11On defense number 10 Ridge Stratton.

05:12Last wing number 10.

05:18Aren't Stratton.

05:21Former player and Penguins head coach

05:23number 11 Gene Obriaco.

05:32Penguins original trainer Ken Carson.

05:39The original owner of the Penguins, Jack McGuire, McGregor.

05:55Now from the first decade, welcome back at center number 26, Sill Apps.

06:09On defense number four, Dave Burroughs.

06:19On defense number five, Mario Faubert.

06:28At center number 23, Ed Gilberts.

06:38And goal number 29, Dennis Herron.

06:49At center number 10, Pierre LaRouche.

06:59At center number 12, Craig Malone.

07:09And right wing number nine, Al McDonough.

07:10On defense number 25, Dennis Ochar.

07:21On defense number two, Bob Paradise.

07:28Left wing number 22, Craig Paulus.

07:39On defense number two, Dwayne Rupp.

07:46In goal number one, Jim Rutherford.

07:56In goal number one, Jim Rutherford.

08:08Captain number 17, Ron Schock.

08:17On defense number three, Ron Stackhouse.

08:19On defense number five, Brian Bugsy Watson.

08:26Please join the entire Penguins organization in welcoming these distinguished alumni home.

08:40Thank you for all your contributions, not only for our franchise, but to the game of hockey.

08:55Thank you for all your contributions.

Highlights 16-17 - Penguins vs. Ducks (10⁄15⁄2016) (Special Ceremonies)

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