Talk:Bobby Baun

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I can't source it, but I've heard the '64 Cup goal was the only 1 he scored. Trekphiler 13:47, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Nope - According to hockeydb.com, Baun had 37 career goals in the regular season, and 3 in the playoffs - in fact, the overtime winner was the second he scored in the playoffs that year.

I just watched the game tonight, actually, as APTN was showing CBC's coverage of it. Amazing game - back then, all the superstars from eliminated teams hung out for interviews. Harry Howell, Bernie Geoffrion and Stan Makita were all there throughout the broadcast, as was the retired Ted Lindsay, Milt Schmidt and many others.

Baun is most impressive - the camera misses the initial injury, and the announcers speculate that there had been a collision, although you just see Baun on the ice about ten feet from in front of his own crease with nobody near him. Eventually he's carried out on a stretcher - one of the broadcasters initially calls him "Brewer" by accident and the consensus is that the Leafs are siginificantly hurt by his absence (particularly his bodychecking), given potential overtime and/or a game 7.

From thereon, the action in the game is fantastic - hard-nosed, end-to-end hockey with outstanding defensive play (minus checking and interference), with the announcers periodically reminding you of Baun's absence. Because there's no instant replay or broadcast booth, the players knew alot more about what was going on than the broadcasters (nowadays they show players what they did in the post-game show and its clear the players know far less than the booth boys), and then suddenly they, with evident shock, point out that Baun is back on the ice I think one of them called him a "trooper," noting that he had been carried off a little more than five minutes ago. More impressively, Baun's first shift back is a long one, and he completely pushes Howe off the puck, despite looking a little slow and clearly limping.

Before the overtime, the non-playing players speculate as to who will score the winner (Howell picked Pulford, a Bruins player - a tough guy, I don't remember who - picks Howe; Geoffrion merely says "an unlikely young player") and when action resumes, the OT winner is scored surprisingly quick. The replay isn't "instant," and when they cue it up, it's from the most recent face-off. The puck just moves around in the neutral zone, and Baun fires the puck from the blueline. There's a Leaf (Pulford, maybe?) in alone near the opposite-side hashmarks in case of a rebound, and the camera slides quickly, caught off-guard by Baun's shot and while there's clearly a goal it's hard to tell who scored or what happenned. They announcer speculates that the puck may have bounced to get past Sawchuk. In the brief Leaf celebration on the ice, you can see Baun jump straight up and down a few times on both skates.

After the commercial, Stan Mikita declares Baun to be the #1 star, with everyone still abuzz about him coming back after the stretcher incident. In fact, the announcer gets Baun to sit down and asks him about the injury rather than the goal. Baun reveals that he blocked a shot with his ankle. He then says (in a voice that sounds like Arlo Guthrie, a curious contrast with every other player in the broadcast who has the rural, southern Ontario accent) that he got up, "heard something snap," and that his ankle "caved in" and from then on he couldn't put any weight on it. He says it might just be a pinched nerve "like Sawchuk had" and that the doctors took him out back and "froze" it, and that he's sure it's nothing serious; he can't feel it at all. Just beautiful. The announcer is about to cut back to the studio, and suddenly realizes to ask him about the goal: "Oh Bobby...you're goal...did it bounce?" Bobby says he thinks it probably did, and that's that. A magnificent moment wonderfully archived by the CBC. Wencer 06:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

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