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Matinee: 'Stanley Cup Playoffs'
26 April 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 601st in our series of Saturday matinees today: Stanley Cup Playoffs.
This 2:12 clip may reference the NHL but it's really a portrait of Bruce Bennett, the league's renowned photographer for 44 years.
"It's all about the moment," he begins.
But that's not easily defined. For Bennett the best shots show both "dejection and jubilation in the same frame."
Which you might think is after the moment. The moment the puck hits the net or the period ends.
The moment after is the moment for him, he says. "When I zero in, I want to see the player's eyes."
And the eyes have it, we see, in shot after shot. "You can get a sense of what it's all about," he points out, looking into their eyes. What it means to them.
And we do.
It could just be "the moment" to be captured isn't so much the action as the reaction of those on the ice when it happens.