The “NHL Hockey Archive” operates as a cooperative venture between Molson and NHL Productions. Molson’s Hockey Archive recently reached an agreement with the National Hockey League to share their assets and combine them into a “one-stop-shopping” hockey footage library. Molson Sports & Entertainment, a separate division of its parent company, Toronto-based Molson, and New Jersey-based NHL Productions collectively makes decisions regarding acquisition, preservation and maintenance of the collections, negotiation and fulfilment of footage requests and marketing initiatives. As the NHL Hockey Archive, we operate in a specialist section of the sports stock footage market. Our collection offers the most thoroughly assembled selection of hockey-related footage in the world and is the first comprehensive source for moving imagery of NHL ice hockey. It comprises thousands of hours of contemporary and archival footage dating back to the 1920’s, including exclusive footage that has never before been available for broadcast. The NHL Hockey Archive provides rare shots along with mainstream footage, all of which has been restored. Our goal is to expand this library of unique and extraordinary material to provide a one-of-a-kind hockey footage archive. This amazing collection includes such great moments as the Maple Leafs’ Bobby Baun scoring in overtime on a broken foot to force game seven against the Red Wings in the 1964 Stanley Cup ® finals, Mark Messier claiming the New York Rangers first Stanley Cup ® in 54 years, and countless moments of Bobby Orr’s illustrious career. Click here to visit the collection section for further details and sample clips from various decades. NHL Productions is a full-service, multimedia production facility located in Northvale, NJ. In addition to supporting NHL broadcasts nationally on ABC, ESPN, CBC, TSN and RDS, NHLP also works with the local rights holders of the League’s 30 member Clubs. NHLP produces and delivers programs as part of the NHL’s exclusive home video relationship with Warner Brothers Home Video. NHLP creates network specials, institutional spots and commercials for the League and its marketing and broadcast partners, in addition to two weekly television series: NHL Cool Shots, a lifestyle program that brings behind-the-scenes hockey action to fans across North America, and NHL Power Week, a game highlights show broadcast to more than 217 countries outside North America. NHLP provides original programming and production support for the Canadian-based NHL Network, as well. NHLP also produces special editions of ESPN’s “The Season”, featuring the Detroit Red Wings, and other network TV specials. Molson Sports and Entertainment, a division of Molson Canada, is a dynamic company built on a solid foundation of expertise in producing world class events. With a successful history as one of Canada’s leading corporate sports broadcasting companies, Molson Sports and Entertainment is uniquely positioned in the North American sports marketplace. Being one of the leading producers of prime-time sports in North America, Molson Sports and Entertainment currently produces over 750 hours of live prime time sports programming and is a broadcast partner with national and international television networks, major professional sports leagues, teams and celebrities. Over the years Molson S&E has accumulated an impressive amount of historic hockey footage and expanded it with other valuable “old-time hockey” collections. With the NHL Hockey Archive, Molson wanted to contribute once more to the preservation of hockey history and the new agreement with NHL Productions brings in the NHL’s assets of more modern footage to create an amazing collection.

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