1972 summit series Game 8 and aftermath

Canada
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[hockeybooks]

@jezeiger i cover every single game in at least one clip

check out "esposito rallies the nation" post game four classic, the americans built a railroad to unify their country, phil helped cement our nation with that interview

youtube has at least one clip from the CBC 4 hour mini-sreies

i host over 100 team canada clips from every box set ever released , [;ease subscribe

[jezeiger]

Is there a movie about this? If not there should be. I'm an American, and I'm sure my emotions involved in this story are so small compared to a Canadian watching it unfold, but I would love to learn more about it.

[hockeybooks]

@jezeiger i host clips of the whole series taken from the box set dvd

the CBC movie has a short clip here on YouTube, as well

i think paul henderson's Game 7 winner is even more awesome than the Game 8 clincher

[evanderlazer]

After watching this. the cold war feeling, the emotions, the war on ice. I'm not so sure I should annoint Sidney Crosby's overtime goal the greatest canadian goal of all-time. I think Sid's is still 2nd greatest. Henderson's is still 1st. Crosby's was on home soil and all but this was our national sport on the line. But I guaren fucking tee that if this tournament was played in april (playoff time) and bobby orr was here. THis would'nt of been close, not by a long shot, canada was out of shape.

[hockeybooks]

@evanderlazer

phil esposito still gets pissed when people trot out the "Soviet superiority" cliche

he counters with " if they were so great, how many PP goals did they score in a series with incompetent refs? we could've played another 20 games, and the commies wouldn't have won a single game"

and he still calls them Commies

[thishereguitar]

Too bad that the fools in the upper echelons of the NHL kept Bobby Hull off the ice.

[MrMgipson]

Yes the movie is Canada - Russia. It is awsome. Buy it on line.

[MrMgipson]

My Pee-Wee team sold posters 39 years ago that had photos of each team and said Summit Series. Like most things that we were supposed to sell, I ended up with most of it still left over and my dad had to spend his overtime pay to buy the items. I have like (10) posters left all in the orignal tube. This series was unforgetable and my hat if off forever to the Canadians who first took this team lightly, but then when they realized that they were up against it - they responded and won !!!!

[mrredfisher71]

Loved it when he scared the shit out of the Ref.

[styx8]

@alkonax Canadian winners*

[MUFFUGGER]

6 Russians dislike this

[somethinburnin]

@somethinburnin Course, I watch this and WOW, least we didn't have to try it in Moscow!

[somethinburnin]

USA sent out College kids against them.....and pulled off a Miracle.