The Sovjets win the 1956 Olympic ice-hockey tournament

[ribinoct76]

This ice rink still stands, I know as I curled there last year. Amazing place with stunning scenery.

[tplh]

The US jerseys look more like the New York Rangers. Also they wore them in once in Vancouver. And Canada had no red.

[1600rasmus]

no helmet, thats kinda dangereus :P

[wg390]

Great video. Nice comments. Wonderful hockey.

It is a history of Hockey

Russians won

Still Hockey is a great game and it is doesnt matter if you won or loose

You all Great, USA and Russians played with a hearts

[mandolinroad]

So much nicer in color, makes the footage look 60 years younger.

[streetcarjay]

I like the V-jerseys worn by the Russians. Similar to the gold, orange and black V-style jerseys worn by the Vancouver Canucks in the early 1980's.

[dellotti]

I liked that old time footage!!!!

I guess this was the last olympics that wasn't covered by television...

[littlepeg7]

This is sooooo great my Dad - Ken Purpur is on the USA Team - they won the silver & they would have won the gold but they didn't have scouts back in the day -- my Dad is alive & well & I seel him in the video clip -- we've looked everywhere for more footage but haven't found it yet -- he is in the UND Hockey Hall of Fame & his brother is one the only Americans to have played on the original 6 -- he is in the National Hall of Fame & at the UND Fido Cliff Purpur was his name -- love it --

[lgla]

@littlepeg7 Great to hear :)

[PeerlessPaavo]

How about the tune? A jazzy arrangement of "The Song of the Volga Boatmen." A bit different from what the composer intended, I'm sure. But nice.

That uniform design looks fine to me in the Soviets' red and white. Was a whole different matter entirely in that Canucks' color scheme. (Although as a kid, I didn't think it was that bad.)

Oh, by the way, according to some historians, ice hockey had only been introduced in the Soviet Union a few years before.

[barkingtree88]

great footage.

[tplh]

I wonder if the Russian jerseys were the ideal for those awful Vancouver Canucks jerseys from the 1980's.

[biloxijay]

That is also the great Soviet netminder Nikolai Puchkov

[Lava1964]

Great film clip.

The Canadian goalie is Denis Brodeur--the father of Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils.