I was 11 year old soviet boy. Remember streets were empty at time of play! (As militia (police) said later there were no crimes in that hours in whole big country!) And we were shocked to tears while 5-3 transformed to 5-6. I think it was greatest sport event in XXth century!
I was in grade eight in school and they brought television sets into the classroom so we could all watch. Older students were allowed to go home to watch the game. Essentially the whole country shut down for game eight.
I was a 16 year old Canadian boy. It was the same here...stores closed and everyone in the country was in front of a television. Canadians were blown away at how good the Soviet team was, and plenty worried after the first two games. When Henderson scored the final goal, the entire country erupted at the same time. It was indeed the greatest sports event of the 20th century!
Thank you for sharing your memories! I've always wondered how much attention Soviet citizens were paying to this series. Canada nearly came to a stop during that final game. Probably the most important hockey series in history.
@@vklvklvkletsovst3135 Я за "Спартак" всегда болел. И ЯК-15 в этой Суперсерии у совковых сыграл лучше, чем Харламов. Но не более того. И, кстати, Пол Хендерсон забил самый красивый гол в этих матчах! Да, школоту мне не понять. Так что лучше к одноклассницам своим беги!
This 8 game series was possibly the best hockey ever recorded on film.....the heart and passion displayed by both teams was palpable.....hands down.....
@@ricktheitalianrebel6687 Very true. In the 1976 Canada Cup, the Canadian players stated that even though Orr had a damaged knee, he was better than them with just one leg.
Still the most thrilling hockey moment of my life -- Paul Henderson's incredible goal, and the gutsy third-period effort by Team Canada leading up to it. I was in my senior year at John McGregor Secondary in Chatham, sitting in the cafeteria with pretty much everyone else in the school that day, watching a grainy TV (likely black-and-white although I'm not 100% sure now) as history unfolded in front of our eyes!
Hard to believe that Henderson never made it into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He scored the most important goal in Canadian history. A real shame, no doubt about it.
@@Martin.Wilson As an NHL player (Toronto Maple Leafs in 1972), Henderson was steady but not spectacular or truly outstanding. He was a well above average player, but not of superstar calibre. This goal was THE highlight of his career. No doubt, he was very good, just not enough to deserve HOF.
@@roberteugene7295 Well, in my opinion, if that had been the only goal he'd ever scored, he still should be in the HOF....that was the most iconic goal ever scored in hockey history and a goal that is remembered to this day by Canadians from coast to coast. Just one fan's opinion.
The boys never gave up. Phil told us after game 3, they're a good team, face the facts. He was on a mission to show them and us, who was actually better. It was us against them and the referees in Moscow. The 3rd period comeback played out like a movie script. Eagleson being rescued by the boys added some extra drama. It was a moment in our lives that we can all recall what we were doing at that time like it just happened. How many of us pretended to be Paul Henderson scoring the winning goal as you skated on your pond or backyard rink after that. I know I did.
We knew in Finland it is going to be tough series! Soviets beat Finland 6,8-1,8 goals! i knew in 1972 if you think Canada is twice as good as Finland then score would be 3,6 goals for Canada and 3,4 goals for Russians! All the other life form we can judge like mathematics and piano playing and so on who are Great but Canada should have known that Soviet 5 man unit Great complex passing and skating skills will create problems!!
Anyone who seriously followed hockey in the 1970s did not underrate Brad Park. He was excellent. However, the guy who wore #4 for Boston was just out of this world. Park himself admitted it in his autobiography.
Foster Hewitt was The est Play-By-Play Announcer Ever. I was born in 1960, I Remember listening to Hockey Game on the Radio in the Bush Hunting or Ice Fishing, He was Great at Describing what he saw. Greatness
@@1safety4all I was Born in 60 in Boston as Well. Your lingo is interesting. Where were you brought up ? It must have been AWSOME listening to Foster Hewitt while ice fishing. 🤔
Henderson turned into a f-in warrior the last 3 games! look at him, gets hooked goes flying into the boards and immediately gets up (most players today would lay there and cry) but no he immediately gets up and goes to the front of the net, the puck follows and he takes 2 stabs at it and it goes in! and for those that dont know.. the last 3 games in the series Henderson had the game winner in each of them!!!
2nd in scoring for Team Canada. Tied with Esposito in goals. Espo played fantastic as well. Led all Team Canada scorers. He was huge too in that series. There was a guy who played on that Henderson line who also made a rather huge impact in that series as well. Kharlamov had it coming. 😎. Whatever it takes to win. It's our game and we take no prisoners. Thank you Bobby Clarke.
I was 11 at the time listening to it on radio in Mr. Breen's grade 6 class arrived home 3rd period was on i will never forget it !. A lot of rough play but some unforgetable hockey as well.
and so...the mystery of Pat Stapleton and Paul Henderson's game winning puck begins its legendary life..... RIP J P Parise Pat Stapleton Rod Gilbert Bill Goldsworthy Tony Esposito Gary Bergman Valeri Kharlamov
leafyutube I often wondered what would have happened If Bobby Orr ( injured ) Derek Sanderson, John McKenzie, Gerry Cheevers ,Bobby Hull and other WHA ineligible players were allowed to play ? Can you imagine Bobby Hull unloading on The Great Tretiak ? Or Sanderson on face offs ? One never knows. I heard Phil Esposito basically say the same thing.
I'm sitting hear with tears running down my face at the emotion that that footage bring's back.I was 11 when this went down WOW . RIP to the Proud Canadian and Russian player's that have passed .Thank You James Terakazis for that remembrance . It is important to see how people can come together in a time of need. I know WE need to come together as a Nation right now as right now we DONT look to Very Canadian. Lets heal and get our SH
I remember when this series began, everyone, and I mean everyone, expected Canada to take all eight games easily. So no wonder everyone except the Soviets were shocked and dumbfounded when the Soviets won the first game in Montreal 7 - 3. Actually, the Soviets expected to win all eight games as well and with more reason when we consider: 1) The Soviet team plays together all twelve months of the year and had done so for several years. The Canadian players play on different teams and had only been together for three weeks before the series began. 2) The Soviet players were in much better condition. The Canadian players were coming out of the off season and were not in top playing condition. 3) The Soviets had scouted the Canadians extensively for at least two years before the series. The Canadians knew next to nothing about the Soviet team and its players, and a lot of what they knew was wrong. For example, goalie Tretiak was supposed to be a weak link, which we found out the hard way was dead wrong. 4) In Canada, the Soviet team was given first class accommodations. In the USSR, the Canadians were given accommodations and facilities which were inferior to what the Soviets received. 5) The Soviet game, though not as physical from a checking standpoint, was heavily into stickwork like spearing and butt-ending which were not called penalties by the international officials. Instead, the Canadian players were penalized when they retaliated. Given these factors, it was nothing short of amazing that Canada won the series. Instead of feeling shame, the Canadian players should have felt well-earned pride for prevailing against a superior team with all these factors going against them. Certainly, as North Americans we learned a lot about the game from the Soviets, particularly in team play and conditioning, but we shouldn't take away the fact that winning the series was a monumental accomplishment, and a tribute to the guts and determination of the Canadian players. All things considered, this Summit Series of 1972 should rate as one of the top moments in North American sports history.
Tretiak was certainly much better than we expected, but Dryden and Esposito were much worse than we expected. Over the course of the series, however, the Canadian goaltenders were consistent (even if they were not great) but the Soviet goalie's play was uneven. The mark of a great goaltender is the ability to come up big when your team needs you most. Tretiak needed one great performance out of the last three, but couldn't produce.
@@XapnoMapkc you're right in saying that goaltending was a problem for Canada especially Dryden who never played well in international competition, one thing I would mention is Canada didn't have their best team as Bobby Orr was hurt and Bobby Hull was not allowed to play because he had bolted for WHA
@@Darkside-to6bs The two Bobbys would have made a big difference ... but I don't agree with the assertion made by many that we would have just mopped the floor with the Russians. Overconfidence and underestimation -- our two biggest problems -- might have even been worse.
Never forget this till the day they plant me pushing up daisies.As a ten year old hockey player was caught up just like the rest of the country.My ol' man was never lost for words but he was after game 1 of this series..!!
yeah game 1 was a nightmare, no one thought that would happen...especially after scoring two goals in the first 3 minutes or so.....and then the wave, after wave, began....the Russians were a hell of a team too!
I was 9 and my entire school got to watch game 8 live on satelite on a giat box of a tv on a large stand and I think the entire country was watching too
Canadá defeated 2 teams that day. They beat the officials and they beat the Soviets. Imagine it. The Soviets had the refs in their pocket and they still lost.
Historical comeback. Canada down 3 games to 2 (1tie) going into Game 8 in the Soviet Russian house, with Kompalla as a referee. Canada was going into the 3rd period down 5-3. The footage shows this to be much more than a bunch of professional hockey players showing up for their cheques. This was a war of honour on a battlefield of ice.
Canada and USSR tied at 3 games each with one tie. Even though Canada won on games 4-3-1 according to some commentators after the series there was a monumental plaque that hung on the wall of the arena in Moscow that stated that in an 8 game total goal affair USSR won 32 to 31.
I believe that in Canada, the game was shown on both CBC and CTV, and on both French-language TV networks that then existed (Radio-Canada and TVA). I'm also pretty sure that the game aired on Canada's CBC Radio (with Bob Cole on play-by-play) and in America on the Mutual Radio Network (with Boston's Bob Wilson calling the game).
I was teaching public school in Toronto at the time. Ŵe were instructed by the Ont Minister for Education that we all had to watch the final game on TV. Joy unconfined. Henderon''s goal is the greatest goal in Hockey, possibly in any sport.
Valary Kharlamov was the best player in the series, and it wasn't close. In game six, with the Soviets up 3-1-1, Bobby Clarke broke Kharlamov's ankle with the most vicious slash I've ever seen. Canada won game 6, game 7 (Kharlamov couldn't play), and game 8 (Kharlamov only played power plays).
If Kharlamov, with 3 scores was "the best", then who was Iakushev with his 7 scores? Don't repeat the russians versions of defeat. Russians are big masters on that.
Don't forget in game 5 Maltsev wacking Henderson's leg causing him to slide into the boards head first (no penalty)and giving him a concussion. He did come back later in the game but missed a number of shifts. Canada lost by 1 goal
I was 8, and I remember all the celebrating going on in Ottawa, cars honking, people hanging out of their car windows, first time I saw the country celebrate like that.
I was 7 years old when this was going on and I remember that after the last game the soviet propaganda newspapers were very modest about the overall result of the series. It took me a while to learn that actually Canada won. Same shit was going on about the Lake Placid Winter Olympics when the overall standings were updated every day. But once the Miracle on Ice happened and East Germans won gold in bobsled and overtook the USSR in the overall standings - the central newspapers stopped publishing the medal count. The local one (Ukrainian) did. Fucking Soviet 'amateurs' were in real life army slaves training 11 months a year and barely seeing their families. The whole soviet bullshit was stressing the word 'professionals' at every opportunity talking about the Canadian players pointing out the difference between them and the soviet 'amateurs'. I was too young to appreciate the historic significance of this victory but in 1987 Canada Cup I cheered standing on my head! But Canada has played a lot of dumb dump and chase hockey over the years and soviets taught them a valuable lesson.
@@notableart1246 Yep, it is me - i have no education, i live in a trailer park and go through garbage cans for food and watch TV through the windows. And what kind of an education you have?
Проиграли команде НХЛ - «сборная солянка». Игроки вызвали в межсезонье из дому. Отдыхали летом, пиво попивали. В отличие от вышколенной сборной СССР, к-рая проступила к тренировкам уде 20 июля. Ну и канадцам, после холодного душа в первом матче, понадобилось пяток игр, что найти свою игру и ВЫИГРАТЬ Суперсерию-72.
@@ocasap59 Во-первых, советские игроки летом тоже пиво пили и не хуже, чем канадцы. Во-вторых, канадцы не за день и не за два дня узнали, что будет серия игр. Им никто не мешал готовиться. Или они были так сильно уверены в своих силах? В-третьих, если бы так себя вели на площадке советские хоккеисты, как вели канадские, то в Канаде, США и их вассалах так бы завопили, что - мама не горюй... В-четвёртых, и вне площадки канадцы вели себя в гостинице и на улицах Москвы как варвары и дикари с дикого, дикого Запада... В-пятых, сборная потому и вызывается, что "сборная солянка", у советских хоккеистов тоже была сборная. А то, что выиграли серию тогда - молодцы, конечно, но на очень "тоненького" у канадцев это получилось... И после этой серии канадцы в разных "солянках" и вариантах были биты Советами не один раз...
@@vklvklvkletsovst3135 А кто у канадцев половину запасов баночного пива и стейков по их приезду в Москву покрал? Канадцы совковых совсем по другому встречали. Как людей! Молодцы канадцы, научили совковых пижонов, что в хоккей нужно играть до последней секунды! Go Canada!
If you watched the series, and I did , you could not blame Parise. The officiating in USSR was so crooked and Canada won the series basically 1 man short. Many , many trumped up penalties. We won with our B team, no Orr, B Hull, Keon etc
@@kindsir2734 In one of the games in Russia that I watched again a few years ago on CZcams Parise was given a nice pass sending him down the left wing with speed, then the whistle blows (off side) I then rewind the video ,slowed it and watched again and of course it is not offside! Yes Parise had reason to be upset on how the officials were calling the games!
Perreault (1972 version) was on the team, but left because he wasn't getting enough playing time. But don't forget that Bobby Hull wasn't allowed to play, and he had a huge impact in the 1974 WHA Series.
Not many fans here acknowledging the violence and thuggery of some of our “heroes” in the games in Russia. I cheered as an 8 year old boy. But now I see it quite differently.
Of course Dryden did make numerous big saves, but even with the wins he had difficulty putting a whole game together. Tony Esposito certainly did in game 2 which is saying something because Canada was still unfit and in disarray. Tony would have won game 5 but the corrupt referees had Team Canada in the penalty box for all of period 3.
Not only was Team Canada missing Orr due to injury, the NHL banned superstars Bobby Hull and JC Tremblay from the team. This was a NHL showcase, and no players that had jumped to the WHA were going to spoil the party.
@EsotericKnave I watched that series An d we were stunned that the Soviets really gave Canada everything they could handle .it felt like the Canadians were complete underdogs but yes Phil Esposito An d I'm from Boston mans never really liked him but Phil was the biggest reason the Canadians were able to come back from a big deficit in that series An d manage a win out of it that actually . But yes Esposito played the best hockey of his life
It was a long time ago, but I remember seeing an interview with some of the Soviet players about the Summit Series. If I recall correctly, the salient points were as follows: the Soviets were most afraid of Bobby Orr and were relieved he didn't play in the Series, the Soviets believed they would have won the series handily if Bobbie Clarke had not broken Valeri Kharlamov's ankle with a vicious slash in Game 6, they had no answer for Phil Esposito's play in Game 8, especially in the third period.
@@tomkuntz8568 Phil Esposito said that Team Canada played the first four games as exhibition games, while the Soviets took it more seriously. The NHL players, who were an all-star team instead of the near pro Soviets, got it together playing European teams before going onto Russia, and were more prepared to play the Soviets.
Btw I. Sat on the edge of my seat with the rest of North America watching this game ,and being I. Russia the referee was absolutely fucking the Canadians with his officiating. It was incredibly obvious ,they were just not going to let the Canadians win that game,and that is THE REASON J.P. PARISE FEIGNED THE ATTACK O. THAT REFEREE. AND UNBELEIVABLY IT WORKED. I COULD NOT. ELEIVE MY EYES BUT THE BAD CALLS STOPPED IMMEDIATELY AFTER PRAISE DID THAT.OTHERWIZR NO WAY Canada wins that game ,that game bad it =
I cheered when Canada won, but it was almost a pyrrhic victory. The Soviets had established themselves as equals and would prove it several times in the coming years.
howie9751 there’s no law against another country freezing some ice outside & putting together a damn good hockey team that could win a world championship
Ridiculous number of penalties against Canada. For the 8 games cccp had more than a +60-minute penalty differential. That’s Team Canada playing short-handed for an entire game. Farce.
Don't forget the Soviet players were in the Red Army, if the coach says your getting up @4am & running 5 miles with a 50lb backpack on who's gonna say no 😁 it's the damn army. No wonder they were better conditioned but they still lost to a bunch of beer guzzling maniacs !
Canada won because they played dirty in the 7h game - with, among others, Bobby Clark, of the Philadelphia bullies, who fractured the ankle of Kharlamov, one of the best Soviet players, with a stick, of ax, well calculated. Shame on Canada!
Canada deserved most of their penalties , JP Parise and a couple of 'officials' on the CDN bench made fools of themselves I'm sorry to say. I did not remember that the games in Russia were officiated with a 2 men system.
Since when could a goal be counted that bounced off the net above the glass. It mite as well have hit the roof. The Ruskies new what they were doing to there credit.
It didn't hit the netting. That wasn't introduced into arenas until much later. This was wire mesh, which the arena had instead of the glass that's in NHL rinks.
@@MsSmitty9 Not at all. This was the equivalent of the glass behind the nets, which all NHL rinks had. The Soviets did many things to try to cheat (insisting on Kompalla as one of the refs. for Game 8 is an example), but this not being whistled dead is not one of them.
@Shawn Bird No, actually it doesn't. This is the same as the puck hitting the glass behind the nets in an NHL rink. Do you think the play should be whistled dead when that happens? They had no glass behind the net, only wire mesh.
@Shawn Bird I'm sorry, but you're wrong, Shawn. To start with, my years of hockey exceed yours, but the point is that this was NOT the practice with the Soviet rink, and all the players knew it. The wire mesh was treated as if it were the glass behind the net in an NHL rink. In Dryden's book, "Face off at the Summit," which was the journal he kept during the Series, he wrote about the mesh, and how unpredictable it was for bounces. He blamed himself for the goal, saying, "I should have stopped the damn puck" instead of letting it go. I don't remember reading any sports writer at the time, or any player who played in the Series, who said that the play should have been blown dead. If you can find one, I'll consider changing my mind on this. Otherwise, I'll give Dryden the last word, and consider the matter closed. My best wishes for health and safety for you and your family, too.
Дрочащий за Балалаечную, с очень «русским» именем Вазген, место русскому комментарию там, где он должен быть - у параши. Также, как и тупым копеечные понтам.
Makes me realize that the Soviets would never have come close if not for the pathetic refereeing. Combined with pre-NHL training camp after the summer.
No Bobby orr in this series no Bobby hull either,and I don't know why they didn't have Derek Sanderson on that team he was a great player I. Those yrs .people don't realise that cuz he didn't last long but he was better than Bobby clark
@@lawrencewright2816 If Derek Sanderson had played, he probably would have gotten into fights with Soviet players and be labelled "an enemy of the State" by none other than Brezhnev!
altfactor Sanderson was a good player, but they were better centres than he was. Remember, Mikita only played a little, and he was a world class player.
Soviets stole at least half of the 300 cases of beer that Canadians had took with them in addition to half of the 300 steaks that they had also took to Moscow. Also Igor Larianov who played in the 1980s USSR hockey teams stated that before every international tournament the Soviet Doctors used to inject the players with what they claimed to be vitamins!!! If anyone believes that those were vitamins doses, then I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. The Soviets were good, but they cheated to make sure of the results. Team Canada was much better under fair conditions, and if Bobby Orr (the greatest defenseman of all time and 2nd greatest player ever) was available, Canada would have won at least 6 games.
@@bassiejazz Of course he couldn’t, because Valery Kharlamov was on “VITAMINS” according to their team doctors!!!!!!!!!! All kidding aside Kharlamov at that time was top 3 player in the world behind Esposito and Bobby Orr. Orr would have skated circles around him, and you don’t win “8” NORRIS TROPHIES in 10 years with being GREAT both offensively and defensively. Please get your facts straight next time you make a comment.
@@mshahnazi7636 Sure sure ... so the guy who says ‘if Bobby Orr ...’ and who gossips about Soviet ‘vitamins’ is telling me about ‘facts’ 😂😅😆 YA BUDDY!!!!!
@@bassiejazz you do know who Igor Larionov is don’t you? He was part of the famous Soviet KLM line, and also part of the USSR Magnificent Five along with Sergei Makarov, Vladimir Krutov, Viacheslov Fetisov and Alexei Kasatonov! With that group and the great Vladislav Tretiak in goal they were unbelievable in the early 1980s. Your so called snide remark about gossip came from the horse’s mouth! Igor Larionov when came to play in the NHL first with Vancouver Canucks made that remark about the so called VITAMINS. You can check it out for yourself, and after the fall of Soviet Union a number of their world class athletes made similar statements. By the way I liked your Sure Buddy remark. Very sarcastic and funny.
Алексей Исаков soviets tried to take Eric eagles son and the Canadians went over and fucked them up cause there pussys and Russians tried to rig the game to win not ringing the bell on goals da fuck your a loser nation
@@user-hv1bh4wj8u что за ненужные эмоции? История есть история. "Утритесь"? Алексей, судя по вашему имени ваши родители имели отношение к СССР. Скажите это им.
WE LOVE YOU CANADA - - WE THE PEOPLE - - ARE ON YOUR SIDE FOREVER - - HERE IN THE U.S.A. !
Pretty incredible comeback by Canada to win the final three games of the series.
In the USSR, no less.
Indeed in the USSR (USSR = the cheaters )
@@roberteugene7295 RIGHT ON - - LIGHTS OUT IN MOSCOW - - GOOD NIGHT - - !
I think Paul Henderson had the winning goal in the last 3 games
@@LookingForAUniqueHandle_76340 You are correct.
Esposito was a beast. He owned the front of the net.
Espo was a sniper!!..Give him the puck in front and it was in the net!! Legendary effort in this series..
I was 11 year old soviet boy. Remember streets were empty at time of play! (As militia (police) said later there were no crimes in that hours in whole big country!) And we were shocked to tears while 5-3 transformed to 5-6. I think it was greatest sport event in XXth century!
HENDERSON HAS SCORED FOR CANADA !!!!!!!!!!!🇨🇦
I was in grade eight in school and they brought television sets into the classroom so we could all watch. Older students were allowed to go home to watch the game. Essentially the whole country shut down for game eight.
We had tv in all the school classrooms that day. Good times.
I was a 16 year old Canadian boy. It was the same here...stores closed and everyone in the country was in front of a television. Canadians were blown away at how good the Soviet team was, and plenty worried after the first two games. When Henderson scored the final goal, the entire country erupted at the same time. It was indeed the greatest sports event of the 20th century!
Thank you for sharing your memories! I've always wondered how much attention Soviet citizens were paying to this series. Canada nearly came to a stop during that final game. Probably the most important hockey series in history.
Phil Esposito and Paul Henderson were beasts in this series!
А А.Якушев был лучше!
@@vklvklvkletsovst3135 Чем лучше-то? Пол забросил три решающие шайбы в трёх завершающих матчах. А ЯК-15? Вот сиди и не вякай!
@@user-hv1bh4wj8u Вам, убогому, этого никогда не понять...
@@vklvklvkletsovst3135 Я за "Спартак" всегда болел. И ЯК-15 в этой Суперсерии у совковых сыграл лучше, чем Харламов. Но не более того. И, кстати, Пол Хендерсон забил самый красивый гол в этих матчах! Да, школоту мне не понять. Так что лучше к одноклассницам своим беги!
This game was on my 12th birthday. What a present!
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but Henderson scored the winning goal in game six, seven and eight!
...and yet he's Not in the HHOF!
YES HE DID - !
This 8 game series was possibly the best hockey ever recorded on film.....the heart and passion displayed by both teams was palpable.....hands down.....
Just wish Orr would have been there. THe russians would not have known what hit them with orr.
@@ricktheitalianrebel6687
Very true. In the 1976 Canada Cup, the Canadian players stated that even though Orr had a damaged knee, he was better than them with just one leg.
I was 10 years old and watch this series, I was amazed at the Hockey Talent we watch, Great Hockey Series
Still the most thrilling hockey moment of my life -- Paul Henderson's incredible goal, and the gutsy third-period effort by Team Canada leading up to it. I was in my senior year at John McGregor Secondary in Chatham, sitting in the cafeteria with pretty much everyone else in the school that day, watching a grainy TV (likely black-and-white although I'm not 100% sure now) as history unfolded in front of our eyes!
Hard to believe that Henderson never made it into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He scored the most important goal in Canadian history. A real shame, no doubt about it.
@@Martin.Wilson
As an NHL player (Toronto Maple Leafs in 1972), Henderson was steady but not spectacular or truly outstanding. He was a well above average player, but not of superstar calibre. This goal was THE highlight of his career.
No doubt, he was very good, just not enough to deserve HOF.
@@roberteugene7295 Well, in my opinion, if that had been the only goal he'd ever scored, he still should be in the HOF....that was the most iconic goal ever scored in hockey history and a goal that is remembered to this day by Canadians from coast to coast. Just one fan's opinion.
The whole country was captivated by this incredible series. Just amazing right during the cold war.
The boys never gave up. Phil told us after game 3, they're a good team, face the facts. He was on a mission to show them and us, who was actually better. It was us against them and the referees in Moscow. The 3rd period comeback played out like a movie script. Eagleson being rescued by the boys added some extra drama. It was a moment in our lives that we can all recall what we were doing at that time like it just happened.
How many of us pretended to be Paul Henderson scoring the winning goal as you skated on your pond or backyard rink after that. I know I did.
We knew in Finland it is going to be tough series! Soviets beat Finland 6,8-1,8 goals! i knew in 1972 if you think Canada is twice as good as Finland then score would be 3,6 goals for Canada and 3,4 goals for Russians! All the other life form we can judge like mathematics and piano playing and so on who are Great but Canada should have known that Soviet 5 man unit Great complex passing and skating skills will create problems!!
Most underrated defenseman of all time. Brad Park.
next to Orr, Park was the best D man of his time! Orr is the best ever, without a doubt.
I believe Orr is the greatest hockey player ever! He was like Pele in soccer.
@@ronbonora7872 Park was better defensively.
Probably the best D-man without a Stanley Cup ring.
Anyone who seriously followed hockey in the 1970s did not underrate Brad Park. He was excellent. However, the guy who wore #4 for Boston was just out of this world. Park himself admitted it in his autobiography.
THE GREAT FOSTER HEWITT.
HENDERSON , HAS SCORED FOR CANADA. IVE HEARD HIM SAY THAT A MILLION TIMES AND STILL GET CHILLS !
Foster Hewitt was The est Play-By-Play Announcer Ever. I was born in 1960, I Remember listening to Hockey Game on the Radio in the Bush Hunting or Ice Fishing, He was Great at Describing what he saw. Greatness
@@1safety4all I was Born in 60 in Boston as Well. Your lingo is interesting. Where were you brought up ? It must have been AWSOME listening to Foster Hewitt while ice fishing. 🤔
@@MsSmitty9 Northern Ontario Canada
@@1safety4all wow. That’s hairy. Northern Pike through the Ice ?
Same!!
Henderson turned into a f-in warrior the last 3 games! look at him, gets hooked goes flying into the boards and immediately gets up (most players today would lay there and cry) but no he immediately gets up and goes to the front of the net, the puck follows and he takes 2 stabs at it and it goes in! and for those that dont know.. the last 3 games in the series Henderson had the game winner in each of them!!!
2nd in scoring for Team Canada. Tied with Esposito in goals. Espo played fantastic as well. Led all Team Canada scorers. He was huge too in that series. There was a guy who played on that Henderson line who also made a rather huge impact in that series as well. Kharlamov had it coming. 😎. Whatever it takes to win. It's our game and we take no prisoners. Thank you Bobby Clarke.
most players today would lay there and cry . this is not true . hockey players are not soccer players .
@@choosenone2die most of todays players sure would lay there and cry!
@Сергей Литвинчук The better team won!
@Сергей Литвинчук bla bla bla.. Who won in the end??? exactly!!
I was 11 at the time listening to it on radio in Mr. Breen's grade 6 class arrived home 3rd period was on i will never forget it !. A lot of rough play but some unforgetable hockey as well.
peter mahovlich very underrated , great talent , one of my all-time favorite habs players .
As a kid, his dad sharpened my skates before every game!
yes indeed PETE MAHOVICH was a great player - under rated -
and so...the mystery of Pat Stapleton and Paul Henderson's game winning puck begins its legendary life.....
RIP
J P Parise
Pat Stapleton
Rod Gilbert
Bill Goldsworthy
Tony Esposito
Gary Bergman
Valeri Kharlamov
Remember Canada is without their best defenceman and their best forward -- Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull.
yea and Derek Sanderson would have been a great faceoff guy and Ed Van Impe would have helped on defense too
leafyutube
I often wondered what would have happened If Bobby Orr ( injured ) Derek Sanderson, John McKenzie, Gerry Cheevers ,Bobby Hull and other WHA ineligible players were allowed to play ? Can you imagine Bobby Hull unloading on The Great Tretiak ? Or Sanderson on face offs ? One never knows. I heard Phil Esposito basically say the same thing.
well, some of the players like henderson may not have played and we know what his contribution was
donny blondy funny thing is , Paul Henderson ended up playing in the WHA after the fact. No matter , he’s still a God in Canada.
@@MsSmitty9 dave keon could skate and play both ends of the ice....the what ifs
I knew they would come back and win. I was in Montreal and saw the first game.
u were that confident? i sure wasnt but still thee most epic sporting event of our generation
If the players knew what Eagleson was really up to... They would have left him with the KGB.
Chrisman77 just ask Bobby Orr.
What happened ?
He stole money from the players pension fund
Or if they knew how much money he would rip off from them in the coming years.
@Сергей Литвинчук kharkamov was a great player
I was also ten years old then. What a series. No shortage of drama on and off the ice.
Paul Henderson should be in the Hall.
I'm sitting hear with tears running down my face at the emotion that that footage bring's back.I was 11 when this went down WOW . RIP to the Proud Canadian and Russian player's that have passed .Thank You James Terakazis for that remembrance . It is important to see how people can come together in a time of need. I know WE need to come together as a Nation right now as right now we DONT look to Very Canadian. Lets heal and get our SH
I remember when this series began, everyone, and I mean everyone, expected Canada to take all eight games easily. So no wonder everyone except the Soviets were shocked and dumbfounded when the Soviets won the first game in Montreal 7 - 3. Actually, the Soviets expected to win all eight games as well and with more reason when we consider:
1) The Soviet team plays together all twelve months of the year and had done so for several years. The Canadian players play on different teams and had only been together for three weeks before the series began.
2) The Soviet players were in much better condition. The Canadian players were coming out of the off season and were not in top playing condition.
3) The Soviets had scouted the Canadians extensively for at least two years before the series. The Canadians knew next to nothing about the Soviet team and its players, and a lot of what they knew was wrong. For example, goalie Tretiak was supposed to be a weak link, which we found out the hard way was dead wrong.
4) In Canada, the Soviet team was given first class accommodations. In the USSR, the Canadians were given accommodations and facilities which were inferior to what the Soviets received.
5) The Soviet game, though not as physical from a checking standpoint, was heavily into stickwork like spearing and butt-ending which were not called penalties by the international officials. Instead, the Canadian players were penalized when they retaliated.
Given these factors, it was nothing short of amazing that Canada won the series. Instead of feeling shame, the Canadian players should have felt well-earned pride for prevailing against a superior team with all these factors going against them. Certainly, as North Americans we learned a lot about the game from the Soviets, particularly in team play and conditioning, but we shouldn't take away the fact that winning the series was a monumental accomplishment, and a tribute to the guts and determination of the Canadian players. All things considered, this Summit Series of 1972 should rate as one of the top moments in North American sports history.
Tretiak was certainly much better than we expected, but Dryden and Esposito were much worse than we expected. Over the course of the series, however, the Canadian goaltenders were consistent (even if they were not great) but the Soviet goalie's play was uneven. The mark of a great goaltender is the ability to come up big when your team needs you most. Tretiak needed one great performance out of the last three, but couldn't produce.
@@XapnoMapkc you're right in saying that goaltending was a problem for Canada especially Dryden who never played well in international competition, one thing I would mention is Canada didn't have their best team as Bobby Orr was hurt and Bobby Hull was not allowed to play because he had bolted for WHA
@@Darkside-to6bs The two Bobbys would have made a big difference ... but I don't agree with the assertion made by many that we would have just mopped the floor with the Russians. Overconfidence and underestimation -- our two biggest problems -- might have even been worse.
Canada's problem is that they sent the Maple Leaf scouts to look at the Russians.....LOL
@@XapnoMapkc Esposito played pretty well.
September 28, 1972, 50 years ago today. And mere days after the Soviets stole the basketball Gold Medal in the Olympics in Munich.
Luved those Soviet teams. Passing and skating ahead of the times.
Never realized Rod Gilbert had two nice set up assists in this game.
Never forget this till the day they plant me pushing up daisies.As a ten year old hockey player was caught up just like the rest of the country.My ol' man was never lost for words but he was after game 1 of this series..!!
yeah game 1 was a nightmare, no one thought that would happen...especially after scoring two goals in the first 3 minutes or so.....and then the wave, after wave, began....the Russians were a hell of a team too!
@Shawn Bird I agree. Many others on that team too! I would say almost all of them would have been NHL players!
Ron Bonora all the Soviet Team players would have been in the NHL. Most of them would have been hall of famers.
Amazing Series.
I was 9 and my entire school got to watch game 8 live on satelite on a giat box of a tv on a large stand and I think the entire country was watching too
I was 11(and a half!)..what a great time it was
Foster did an amazing job as broadcaster. The greatest hockey announcer ever!
He could not even get the names right
Love that big ice. Makes the game so noble & elegant.
Sorry DAWG...Dryden was an absolute SIV in this series....TONY "O" was DA MAN !!!
I agree and in the 70's I was a Habs fan.
The way he ran at the ref like a total dirtbag lost him all respect.
@@AlexOvechkinSucks J P Parise ?
Dryden play in the 3rd period of game 8 - was arguably the best period of his career
Canadá defeated 2 teams that day. They beat the officials and they beat the Soviets.
Imagine it. The Soviets had the refs in their pocket and they still lost.
In Canada it was the opposite
@@danielshifron5672 That is BS.
The soviets had 2 more powerplays 7-5. The way you make it sound it was 14-2
@@alwillk over the 8-game series the Soviets benefitted by a +57-minute differential in penalty time. That’s a whole game Canada played short-handed.
War on ice, what more could you ask for .
Best part they become long life friends after
Savard played 5 games in that series...without losing 1 game (4W-1T)
fleurdelys101 Yes, it’s difficult to understand Sindon’s thinking in scratching him for most of the games in Canada.
@@ianmccutcheon646 He won the Conn Smythe in 1969, so he had a bonafide pedigree, for sure.
Historical comeback. Canada down 3 games to 2 (1tie) going into Game 8 in the Soviet Russian house, with Kompalla as a referee. Canada was going into the 3rd period down 5-3. The footage shows this to be much more than a bunch of professional hockey players showing up for their cheques. This was a war of honour on a battlefield of ice.
ml k 3-3-1 heading into game 8
Canada and USSR tied at 3 games each with one tie. Even though Canada won on games 4-3-1 according to some commentators after the series there was a monumental plaque that hung on the wall of the arena in Moscow that stated that in an 8 game total goal affair USSR won 32 to 31.
@@spacerazer what bullshit---USSR are biggest fucking crybabies ever
Kompalla an absolute ignorant, didn't know basic rules of the game.
@@krasteff Kompalla knew the rules. He was in the Soviets pocket. Canadians knew all about him before the 1972 series.
Was and still am a big fan of tretiak Habs fan from cape breton 🇨🇦
I believe that in Canada, the game was shown on both CBC and CTV, and on both French-language TV networks that then existed (Radio-Canada and TVA).
I'm also pretty sure that the game aired on Canada's CBC Radio (with Bob Cole on play-by-play) and in America on the Mutual Radio Network (with Boston's Bob Wilson calling the game).
I was teaching public school in Toronto at the time. Ŵe were instructed by the Ont Minister for Education that we all had to watch the final game on TV. Joy unconfined. Henderon''s goal is the greatest goal in Hockey, possibly in any sport.
Valary Kharlamov was the best player in the series, and it wasn't close. In game six, with the Soviets up 3-1-1, Bobby Clarke broke Kharlamov's ankle with the most vicious slash I've ever seen. Canada won game 6, game 7 (Kharlamov couldn't play), and game 8 (Kharlamov only played power plays).
But the Russians had the refs on their side.
If Kharlamov, with 3 scores was "the best", then who was Iakushev with his 7 scores? Don't repeat the russians versions of defeat. Russians are big masters on that.
Don't forget in game 5 Maltsev wacking Henderson's leg causing him to slide into the boards head first (no penalty)and giving him a concussion. He did come back later in the game but missed a number of shifts. Canada lost by 1 goal
Totally disagree Yakushev was there best forward
I was 8, and I remember all the celebrating going on in Ottawa, cars honking, people hanging out of their car windows, first time I saw the country celebrate like that.
1:34 was the greatest moment in hockey..
I was 7 years old when this was going on and I remember that after the last game the soviet propaganda newspapers were very modest about the overall result of the series. It took me a while to learn that actually Canada won. Same shit was going on about the Lake Placid Winter Olympics when the overall standings were updated every day. But once the Miracle on Ice happened and East Germans won gold in bobsled and overtook the USSR in the overall standings - the central newspapers stopped publishing the medal count. The local one (Ukrainian) did.
Fucking Soviet 'amateurs' were in real life army slaves training 11 months a year and barely seeing their families. The whole soviet bullshit was stressing the word 'professionals' at every opportunity talking about the Canadian players pointing out the difference between them and the soviet 'amateurs'. I was too young to appreciate the historic significance of this victory but in 1987 Canada Cup I cheered standing on my head!
But Canada has played a lot of dumb dump and chase hockey over the years and soviets taught them a valuable lesson.
@@notableart1246 Yep, it is me - i have no education, i live in a trailer park and go through garbage cans for food and watch TV through the windows. And what kind of an education you have?
I'd forgotten Team Canada was down 5 - 3 going into the third period... wow
"If there's a goal that everyone remembers...it was back in '72..."
50 years ago today!
What a Great series! Way to go Canada!
Я смотрел этот матч когда мне было 12 лет. Я очень расстроился когда проиграла сборная СССР.
Не расстраивайся! Это вы ещё легко отделались!
Проиграли команде НХЛ - «сборная солянка». Игроки вызвали в межсезонье из дому. Отдыхали летом, пиво попивали. В отличие от вышколенной сборной СССР, к-рая проступила к тренировкам уде 20 июля. Ну и канадцам, после холодного душа в первом матче, понадобилось пяток игр, что найти свою игру и ВЫИГРАТЬ Суперсерию-72.
@@ocasap59 Во-первых, советские игроки летом тоже пиво пили и не хуже, чем канадцы. Во-вторых, канадцы не за день и не за два дня узнали, что будет серия игр. Им никто не мешал готовиться. Или они были так сильно уверены в своих силах? В-третьих, если бы так себя вели на площадке советские хоккеисты, как вели канадские, то в Канаде, США и их вассалах так бы завопили, что - мама не горюй... В-четвёртых, и вне площадки канадцы вели себя в гостинице и на улицах Москвы как варвары и дикари с дикого, дикого Запада... В-пятых, сборная потому и вызывается, что "сборная солянка", у советских хоккеистов тоже была сборная. А то, что выиграли серию тогда - молодцы, конечно, но на очень "тоненького" у канадцев это получилось... И после этой серии канадцы в разных "солянках" и вариантах были биты Советами не один раз...
@@vklvklvkletsovst3135 А кто у канадцев половину запасов баночного пива и стейков по их приезду в Москву покрал? Канадцы совковых совсем по другому встречали. Как людей! Молодцы канадцы, научили совковых пижонов, что в хоккей нужно играть до последней секунды! Go Canada!
Definition of Cold War:
Americans: Build missiles and military bases.
Canadians: Lace up your skates.
Russians: do both and invade all the smaller countries nearby.
Also Americans: Our college kids beat the Soviet team 4-3 in the '80 Olympics.
1:33 can you imagine if anyone did that a ref in international play.....jesus total ban from the game. lol
Charged aswell
The refs had the fix in for the soviets....the calls were so bad i don't blame that reaction
If you watched the series, and I did , you could not blame Parise. The officiating in USSR was so crooked and Canada won the series basically 1 man short. Many , many trumped up penalties. We won with our B team, no Orr, B Hull, Keon etc
Simply retaliation for the Soviets hacking everyone behind the legs and spearing.
@@kindsir2734 In one of the games in Russia that I watched again a few years ago on CZcams Parise was given a nice pass sending him down the left wing with speed, then the whistle blows (off side) I then rewind the video ,slowed it and watched again and of course it is not offside! Yes Parise had reason to be upset on how the officials were calling the games!
Imagine having a healthy Bobby Orr and the 1975 version of Gilbert Perreault. It would've been a shorter series but far more entertaining to watch
Perreault (1972 version) was on the team, but left because he wasn't getting enough playing time. But don't forget that Bobby Hull wasn't allowed to play, and he had a huge impact in the 1974 WHA Series.
It still would have been an 8-game series, but the winner may have been determined earlier.
Let's imagine that Clarke had no broken Kharlamov. It would've been a shorter series but far more entertaining to watch 😃
Don't forget Lafleur
ALL VERY GOOD HOCKEY PLAYERS BUT DAM CANADA HAS ONE HELL OF A FLAG
So much better than wat we got now😎Wait till they play Islanders-Potvin-Bossy Gilles,line🤣🤣😂dats Hockey ,,now we got Hookie😎
It took this series for Foster Hewitt to pronounce Cournoyer's name half properly.
Esposito to Henderson goodnight !
Not many fans here acknowledging the violence and thuggery of some of our “heroes” in the games in Russia. I cheered as an 8 year old boy. But now I see it quite differently.
Paul Henderson needs to be in the HOF.
He's not? That's criminal!
and tretiac taken out
100 % agree
Man these guys would get worked in a 2024 NHL. I understand the importance and i'm proud of Canada, but this looks like some 12 or 13 year old AA team
To byl!!! Hokej!!!
Tretiak Worlds Greatest Goalie....NYET
Hasek all day
Terry Sawchuk perhaps?
That's hockey!!
To have Orr Hull maybe even Gordie
! He played in 74 With the WHA at 46 didn't look out of place.
Orr had a knee operation I believe that year.
Pretending to swing your stick at the referee is pretty bush league.
Canada missed Bobby Orr who would have quarter backed this team to two more victories. The Russians wouldn't know what to do to stop him.
how ironic. Allan Eagleson sticking up for the canadian team, while later on he ended up screwing a few of the NHL stars like Bobby Orr.
More than a few; read Russ Conway's book "Game Misconduct."
Did Dryden ever come up with a big save!!
Yes, he did. You should watch Game 6 in its entirety.
Of course Dryden did make numerous big saves, but even with the wins he had difficulty putting a whole game together. Tony Esposito certainly did in game 2 which is saying something because Canada was still unfit and in disarray. Tony would have won game 5 but the corrupt referees had Team Canada in the penalty box for all of period 3.
In all rites Esposito should of played in game 8 he totally was far better than Dryden
@@matteodilullo2795 Dryden was terrible against the Soviets. Gave up many soft goals.
Where was Bobby Orr when this was happening? Why wasn't he on this team? Was he injured?
He had one of his many knee operations a few months earlier. He tried it at camp, but couldn't go.
knee injury
Orr was coming off knee surgery and was not available. He would have given 5 years of his life to play but Bruins brass would not allow it,
@@slowhand1962 Orr finally got his chance at the Canada Cup in 1976 and on two wonky knees was still maybe the best player in the tournament.
Not only was Team Canada missing Orr due to injury, the NHL banned superstars Bobby Hull and JC Tremblay from the team. This was a NHL showcase, and no players that had jumped to the WHA were going to spoil the party.
ESPO carried that team on his back.
We had JP Parise on the team.
JP Parise.
Not Bobby Hull, mind you.
JP Parise.
Thank you Alan Eagleson.
Alexander Yakushev by far the best Russian player and maybe best winger in hockey at the time......we were warned.🙄
Paul Henderson hof,Christ, am I wrong ,or did Esposito score a hat trick.
@EsotericKnave I watched that series An d we were stunned that the Soviets really gave Canada everything they could handle .it felt like the Canadians were complete underdogs but yes Phil Esposito An d I'm from Boston mans never really liked him but Phil was the biggest reason the Canadians were able to come back from a big deficit in that series An d manage a win out of it that actually . But yes Esposito played the best hockey of his life
Phil was the real captain of that team.
It was a long time ago, but I remember seeing an interview with some of the Soviet players about the Summit Series. If I recall correctly, the salient points were as follows: the Soviets were most afraid of Bobby Orr and were relieved he didn't play in the Series, the Soviets believed they would have won the series handily if Bobbie Clarke had not broken Valeri Kharlamov's ankle with a vicious slash in Game 6, they had no answer for Phil Esposito's play in Game 8, especially in the third period.
@@tomkuntz8568 Phil Esposito said that Team Canada played the first four games as exhibition games, while the Soviets took it more seriously. The NHL players, who were an all-star team instead of the near pro Soviets, got it together playing European teams before going onto Russia, and were more prepared to play the Soviets.
@@williamlacombe5818 Agree best hockey Esposito's story career - And did it without Bobby Orr
Tretiak is in Hhof but Henderson isnt ?
I made a lot of money on the first four games.
Teeth did not have long lives back then.
Btw I. Sat on the edge of my seat with the rest of North America watching this game ,and being I. Russia the referee was absolutely fucking the Canadians with his officiating. It was incredibly obvious ,they were just not going to let the Canadians win that game,and that is THE REASON J.P. PARISE FEIGNED THE ATTACK O. THAT REFEREE. AND UNBELEIVABLY IT WORKED. I COULD NOT. ELEIVE MY EYES BUT THE BAD CALLS STOPPED IMMEDIATELY AFTER PRAISE DID THAT.OTHERWIZR NO WAY Canada wins that game ,that game bad it =
Ironically, Parise deserved that penalty, without question.
I cheered when Canada won, but it was almost a pyrrhic victory. The Soviets had established themselves as equals and would prove it several times in the coming years.
Like when in best vs best? Only in Canada Cup, always won by Canda except in 1981.
@@krasteff 1979?
howie9751, 1979 was USSR vs NHL all stars team chosen by the fans, and Phil Esposito also questioned the 1972 team being Canada and called it NHL.
howie9751 there’s no law against another country freezing some ice outside & putting together a damn good hockey team that could win a world championship
Yes but the Russians haven't beaten Canada's best in a final or championship game since the 81 Canada Cup.
Did Henderson ever buy a drink ever again?
Tony Esposito played way better in goal then Dryden.
Ridiculous number of penalties against Canada. For the 8 games cccp had more than a +60-minute penalty differential. That’s Team Canada playing short-handed for an entire game. Farce.
We all know who won but still get nervous!
because team kanada had nowhere to drink in moscow
Великие советские хоккеисты!!!Канадцы тоже хороши .😉👍
We sure beat your cheating asses!
Soviets never had anything but an all world goalie never won anything without him
Helmets vs no helmets
Don't forget the Soviet players were in the Red Army, if the coach says your getting up @4am & running 5 miles with a 50lb backpack on who's gonna say no 😁 it's the damn army. No wonder they were better conditioned but they still lost to a bunch of beer guzzling maniacs !
You should watch some of the training they did the Russian team.Carrying each other,tying a 25 lb weighted tire on them and have them power skate.
moliai kanada
Пишы по русскому!
Я написал по литовски ,,глина Канада""
Canada won because they played dirty in the 7h game - with, among others, Bobby Clark, of the Philadelphia bullies, who fractured the ankle of Kharlamov, one of the best Soviet players, with a stick, of ax, well calculated. Shame on Canada!
Canada deserved most of their penalties , JP Parise and a couple of 'officials' on the CDN bench made fools of themselves I'm sorry to say.
I did not remember that the games in Russia were officiated with a 2 men system.
Ken Dryden …était aussi Fort que ( Vladimir Tretiak! )
Since when could a goal be counted that bounced off the net above the glass. It mite as well have hit the roof. The Ruskies new what they were doing to there credit.
It didn't hit the netting. That wasn't introduced into arenas until much later. This was wire mesh, which the arena had instead of the glass that's in NHL rinks.
Fergus Tyson , netting , wire mesh , same difference same results. Cheating Ruskies. Thank You Paul Henderson.
@@MsSmitty9 Not at all. This was the equivalent of the glass behind the nets, which all NHL rinks had. The Soviets did many things to try to cheat (insisting on Kompalla as one of the refs. for Game 8 is an example), but this not being whistled dead is not one of them.
@Shawn Bird No, actually it doesn't. This is the same as the puck hitting the glass behind the nets in an NHL rink. Do you think the play should be whistled dead when that happens? They had no glass behind the net, only wire mesh.
@Shawn Bird I'm sorry, but you're wrong, Shawn. To start with, my years of hockey exceed yours, but the point is that this was NOT the practice with the Soviet rink, and all the players knew it. The wire mesh was treated as if it were the glass behind the net in an NHL rink. In Dryden's book, "Face off at the Summit," which was the journal he kept during the Series, he wrote about the mesh, and how unpredictable it was for bounces. He blamed himself for the goal, saying, "I should have stopped the damn puck" instead of letting it go. I don't remember reading any sports writer at the time, or any player who played in the Series, who said that the play should have been blown dead. If you can find one, I'll consider changing my mind on this. Otherwise, I'll give Dryden the last word, and consider the matter closed. My best wishes for health and safety for you and your family, too.
Русский комментарий должен быть в топ🇷🇺
Дрочащий за Балалаечную, с очень «русским» именем Вазген, место русскому комментарию там, где он должен быть - у параши. Также, как и тупым копеечные понтам.
Makes me realize that the Soviets would never have come close if not for the pathetic refereeing. Combined with pre-NHL training camp after the summer.
The refereeing was a sad joke
And the americans thought they won the cold war.....
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No Bobby orr in this series no Bobby hull either,and I don't know why they didn't have Derek Sanderson on that team he was a great player I. Those yrs .people don't realise that cuz he didn't last long but he was better than Bobby clark
No, he wasn't.
I think Derek went to the WHA like Bobby Hill and therefore wasn't taken.
William Lacombe
Sanderson would not have made that team.
@@lawrencewright2816 If Derek Sanderson had played, he probably would have gotten into fights with Soviet players and be labelled "an enemy of the State" by none other than Brezhnev!
altfactor
Sanderson was a good player, but they were better centres than he was. Remember, Mikita only played a little, and he was a world class player.
Soviets stole at least half of the 300 cases of beer that Canadians had took with them in addition to half of the 300 steaks that they had also took to Moscow. Also Igor Larianov who played in the 1980s USSR hockey teams stated that before every international tournament the Soviet Doctors used to inject the players with what they claimed to be vitamins!!! If anyone believes that those were vitamins doses, then I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. The Soviets were good, but they cheated to make sure of the results. Team Canada was much better under fair conditions, and if Bobby Orr (the greatest defenseman of all time and 2nd greatest player ever) was available, Canada would have won at least 6 games.
M Shahnazi Yeah where’s the beer?! The results would have been much different if the beer hadn’t been stolen. ;)
Orr wouldn’t have been able to stop Kharlamov. He was an offensive defenseman. Overrated too.
@@bassiejazz Of course he couldn’t, because Valery Kharlamov was on “VITAMINS” according to their team doctors!!!!!!!!!! All kidding aside Kharlamov at that time was top 3 player in the world behind Esposito and Bobby Orr.
Orr would have skated circles around him, and you don’t win “8” NORRIS TROPHIES in 10 years with being GREAT both offensively and defensively. Please get your facts straight next time you make a comment.
@@mshahnazi7636 Sure sure ... so the guy who says ‘if Bobby Orr ...’ and who gossips about Soviet ‘vitamins’ is telling me about ‘facts’ 😂😅😆 YA BUDDY!!!!!
@@bassiejazz you do know who Igor Larionov is don’t you? He was part of the famous Soviet KLM line, and also part of the USSR Magnificent Five along with Sergei Makarov, Vladimir Krutov, Viacheslov Fetisov and Alexei Kasatonov! With that group and the great Vladislav Tretiak in goal they were unbelievable in the early 1980s. Your so called snide remark about gossip came from the horse’s mouth! Igor Larionov when came to play in the NHL first with Vancouver Canucks made that remark about the so called VITAMINS. You can check it out for yourself, and after the fall of Soviet Union a number of their world class athletes made similar statements.
By the way I liked your Sure Buddy remark. Very sarcastic and funny.
In Soviet Russia we lose
no, everyone knew the Canadians had won the series. But no one expected us to be able to beat the Canadians in first game. That's the difference.
Алексей Исаков but did you win it don’t matter if you win the first game the last one is the only one that matters
Алексей Исаков soviets tried to take Eric eagles son and the Canadians went over and fucked them up cause there pussys and Russians tried to rig the game to win not ringing the bell on goals da fuck your a loser nation
@@Redrick_Schuhart Так и утритесь со своей первой игрой. Разозлили только на свою голову! Войну выиграли канадцы!
@@user-hv1bh4wj8u что за ненужные эмоции? История есть история. "Утритесь"? Алексей, судя по вашему имени ваши родители имели отношение к СССР. Скажите это им.