“IT WAS NUTS!” | Remembering The Fog Game 50 Years Later | Buffalo Sabres

“IT WAS NUTS!” | Remembering The Fog Game 50 Years Later | Buffalo Sabres

In the corner, Rober going after it and it scores Rober and Los won it again. The 1975 Stanley Cup final became the first to feature two expansion teams when the defending champion Philadelphia Flyers faced the Buffalo Sabres. The Flyers won the first two games on home ice before the series shifted to the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. Played on May 20th, 1975, game three is remembered as one of the most surreal events in NHL history. It was a weird weird game. It was just nuts. It was nuts. That was a a strange event. Of course, uh that was played in May and it was extremely hot outside and uh there was no uh air conditioning inside the the auditorium with no air conditioning at the O. The hot and humid evening produced a thick fog that lingered over the ice for long stretches of the game. There’s the temperature inside the building. 87 it registered. It is like a finished chrono bath up here in the booth. Everyone is just soaking wet. They gave us wet towels and you skate around with a wet towel. The fog would lift and as soon as it lifted they said, “Okay, start playing again.” Has to be the worst game. He just kept skating around and then they finally had to get it going again. And uh so that was pretty comical, but it was a serious hockey game. So we we had to get back into it as soon as they dropped the puck again. To make the night even stranger, a bat flew around the arena at ice level during the first period before the Sabres Jim Lorent interveneed. I remember even in the warm-ups, the bat was flying around the crowd and uh you could always tell where the bat was because you’d hear a reaction out of the the people in the seats. I remember waiting for a face off and I I saw the bat and was coming towards me in range and just out of out of habit I reached up with the stick and uh and it was a a direct hit and it was Rick McCleas took his glove off, picked it up and buried the bat in the penalty box. Arena crews made several attempts to clear the fog but with little success. The game was tied 4 to4 at the end of regulation. When we went into the overtime, the coach comes in and and we sat in the room and said, you know, whenever we have a chance, shoot the puck because you never know what the fog it can go in from anywhere. In overtime, with visibility perhaps at its worst, Renee Roar became the hero for Buffalo. Oil Bear shut the puck in a corner and that was it was an angle that was almost impossible to score from. Around it comes to Rick Martin. Up ahead for Perro. Pero coming to center. dumps it off the boards in the corner. Rober going after it. He sure has Ry Rober and Loss win it again in overtime. Off the boards in the corner. Rober owned it in between the legs of Bernie Mir. And the Buffalo Sabres are right back in the Stanley Cup final, winning here five to four. Renie Robert. [Music]

Sabres alumni reminisce about the “Fog Game” and the bat fiasco as the Buffalo Sabres resurface interviews talking about and highlights from the 1974-75 playoff run.

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