Red Army vs Montreal Canadiens

[hardheadca]

where can I download a copy of this game?

[sushidude123]

@wwDevichan you obviously are not from USSR, you did nothing because you wanted to, it was you did what you were told by the government.

[sushidude123]

@wwDevichan think of him how you want, but he did not want to play for USSR. He wanted to leave it, and bring hockey to Spain; but USSR refused to grant his request.

[sushidude123]

@wwDevichan being born in a country does not make somebody ethnically a part of that nation.

[abbirina]

These series were always so exciting to watch.

[sscharlesk]

Boris Mikhailov hit the post in the last minute. If you watch the game you can see him raise his arms in celebration. He thought he had scored and much of the crowd did as well. Still a fitting end to one of the most important games ever.

[vbaryshev]

That was the real hockey. When playing for your country were mach important than million dollars contracts.

[sushidude123]

@vbaryshev if they could millions of dollars they would, Kharlamov was a spanish man, he did not even like USSR, he was forced to do it.

[Alexei55555]

@sushidude123 Kharlamov its Russian Name .....

[ggqbc]

I AM CANADIAN! it is important to note that the 1974 summit series was won by the CCP/RUSSIA/SOviet union and was won very handedly! the actual tournament rules which was agreed apon by both teams was that the team with the best goal differential at the end of the series was the winner! by midway through it became a laugher and CCP clearly had it won so they began resting their players to make it more interesting. Canadians are vbery strange people so tey told their people back home different

[1MarioTheMartian1]

@ggqbc You arn't Canadian because you're too unintelligent.

[wilmanric1]

The Habs outshot Red Army 38 to 15, I believe. Nearly three to one. If it had not been for the incomparable Tretiak, the whole series would have been totally different. Dryden was a brilliant goalie, but he always seemed overawed by the Russians. He was at best capable against them. I could never understand it.

[XXXJackieRXXX]

Tretiak put on a great show that night!

[hebber1961]

one of the best games i ever saw. certainly best to that point. even my dad who hated Montreal, was going nuts.

[jetshull]

@hebber1961 me and my pop hated montreal, but on this night it was like magic

it was the only time we cheered for the canadiens, never forget this game long as i live, me and the ol' man were going nuts, once inna life time game, man did we cheer when the montreal canadiens scored.

[hebber1961]

@jetshull ya, it was great to watch but disapointing to tie. and it was only 35 years ago.

[jetshull]

@hebber1961 i wish we could go back in time, this game brought us all together.

The ol' man RIP, HE DIED 1986.

[valera03fys]

@jetshull he died in 1981,

[Azamonia]

ah gud old days of hockey

[krot41]

Thanks for the video!!

[goatfoker]

the montreal canadiens from the seventies are far more superior than any russian players!

[jaynebosco]

Danny Gallivan was one of the greats

[J0113]

R.I.P Valeri Kharlamov. You were one of a kind, one of the greatest.

[beamer7575]

the montreal canadiens played a great and inspired game and deserved that win but russian hockey in those days was much superior to north american hockey of the seventies.

[UngratefulSwine]

@beamer7575 Quite true.

[alexrakul]

3-3...as russians speak - friendship wins!

[babystinky]

montreal lost that game. well, you know they didn't loose, it ended in a draw, but really it was their game to win or loose or draw. the red army was good, but not at the level of the canadiens.

[pezdispenser365]

greates game in the history of hockey

[jangster39]

kharlamov was one of the best ever! what a brilliant player!

[quincee33]

@jangster39 No arguement here. Tretiak was amazing in Net.

[dbray1]

does montreal come in mens?

[PreacherofArrakeen]

I watched this game. Too bad Dryden choked, as he usually did, against the Soviets. This was the year, though, that Montreal began their last dynasty, winning 4 Stanley Cups in a row. Tretiak was mind-boggling that game. The Canadiens really outplayed the Soviets, but Tretiak stopped them cold. And Kharlamov, what you say about that guy? He was an amazing player.

[dbray1]

@PreacherofArrakeen its too bad tretiak never played in the nhl and gotten more well known in the U.S.........and dryden im sorry was NOT all that great, his stats only reflect how good the habs were. think good and hard about it, you know its true

[PreacherofArrakeen]

I disagree. Dryden almost single-handedly stopped the Bruins from advancing to the Stanley Cup final in 1970-71 (his first season). The Habs weren't that special that year. He had a very good glove hand, and those long legs. He just seemed to play crap against the Sovs. He read their plays wrong, or something. Also, during the last Montreal dynasty, there was one season when Montreal only lost 8 games (no one has done that before, or since), and Dryden certainly played an integral role in that.

[ldhorricks]

cudos to both of you for not hurling slack-jawed abuse at each other. I could never fathom how Dryden achieved what he did...he was the most ungainly awkward athlete to play the game, yet he stopped pucks. think the Soviets found his style easy pickens and they exploited it. I agree Dryden did steel the 71 series, absolutely stymied the Hawks scorers...almost single handedly lost the 79 semis though, but a bench penalty, Lafleur and finally Lambert saved his Ivy league bacon...class act though

[avroarrow2009]

there was plenty of depth on the Jets .. in the late 70's the NHL was so boring too watch .. lacked talent .. to many expansions .. and the talented players wanted to play in the WHA .. and Harrold Ballard despised the Jets .. and that led to the dismantling of the team when they joined .

[avroarrow2009]

the WHA Jets beat that Russian team 5-3 .. if the thick brained powers back then would have put together a series Montreal and Winnipeg .. that would have been some series ... the monies they would have made .. and what a Series that would have been ..

[Scarpia74]

ahem, sorry for the nitpicking but here goes...

the WHA Jets also lost 4 times to them... and Montreal faced CSKA here, not the Soviet national team like the Jets (yes, there was a big difference)... BTW, Alexandr Sidelnikov was the starting goalie in the Jets game (replaced by Tretiak after the 4-0 goal).

Personally, I don't think Jets would have stood a chance with Montreal. Outside the Hot Line, there was no real depth. Especially defensively, the Habs were way superior.

[spinviking]

Yes! THE greatest tie game in history!

[Unbannable]

workers of the world unite, you have nothing too lose but your chains

[spray1k]

The goal of Kharlamov is brilliant!

[dosvidanija]

amazing

[HawkFest]

@spray1k, at the begining? On that play he was left unmarked, actually it was also a very poor performance from defencemens. Anyways, Kharlamov was a superb player. In the end there's a goal while he was going through defencemens, too fast for'em!

[vewygoodman]

Shiiiit,The Habs outshot them like 38-17.Habs dominated,should have won the game

[Habsfan0206]

vewygoodman, make that 38 - 13 in shots for the Habs. It wasn't Dryden's best game but the Habs did dominate badly the Central Red Army.

[Habsfan0206]

God bless Danny Gallivan! You were the best, my dear friend! You're dearly missed!!

[SexSteakSoda]

As much as I love north american hockey, it really doesn't stand a chance against russian hockey. Just take a look at the 1983 super series, nuff said.

[vene777]

haha right....

[JasonVoorhees83]

good stuff but I like the Flyers game better, those 4 hits on the russians and then the win. Old time hockey rules! Check my channel for the mayhem from the Flyers vs Red Army game.

[robinmontgomery]

That wasn't "old time hockey". That was phili goonery. Nobody else in the NHL condoned how they played, and the Russians were disgusted by it, they left the ice in the third period.

[quincee33]

The russian were always known (back then) as soft and quitters...not sure if yur American or Canadian, but in 72 there was a summit series between canada and Soviet Union, Canada won 4 games to 3 with a tie....they played in canadian cities then moved to russia, once they got to russia the refs tried to fix the games, it's well documaneted, Canadians in the crowds were booing so bad the KGB stepped in.....it was a total black eye on the Soviets

[Shoknifeman]

You forgot to mention the 1972 Russians were the nastiest high-stickers EVER

[hockeymac94]

agreed

preach it brotha

[foman17]

MCvsCSKA=real hockey

FlyersvsCSKA = dirty, not intresting hockey

[PreacherofArrakeen]

Agreed.

[liltug2]

wtf? a country vs an NHL team?

go habs go

[wildhippy]

It was not the Soviet national team it was the Red Army team - so they would play Diamo Kiev, say, in the Soviet league

[goldar2012]

Best game ever

[quincee33]

do you know when victor Tikanov became coach of the Red Army?

[jenova52]

Vladislav Tretiak is amazing, i have his red army jersey

[tnix80]

I'd say half of the greatest players ever to play played in that game...mind blowing

[OilersCanadasTeam]

half? You forgot Orr, Lemieux, Bossy, Trottier, Hasek, Yzerman, Potvin, Coffey, Gretzky, Kurri, Messier, Hawerchuk, Ratelle, Gilbert, Park, Maurice Richard, Henri Richard, Beliveau, Sawchuk, Esposito, Kelly, Harvey, Moore, Olmstead, Plante, Hall, Bobby Hull, Gordie Howe, Sittler, Salming, Clarke, Barber, Delvecchio, Lindsay, Fuhr, Roy, Brodeur, Crosby, Ovechkin, Zetterberg, Luongo, Jagr, Shanahan, Datsyuk, Fedorov, Larionov, Makarov, Krutov, Fetisov, Kasatonov, etc. Not quite half in that game!

[jeansbass]

what a game !

[InnocentWar1]

You did forget the best there was and the best it ever will be: Alexander maltsev. He didn't play this game, he represented Dynamo Moscow.