A problem with capitalism helped ruin Team Canada in Game 1 of the famous...
Phil Esposito put up the chances, but Team Canada was badly hurt by the banning of Bobby Hull and J.C. Tremblay. The Canadian-Soviet Union series has gone down in history as a battle between two...
View ArticleHarry Sinden’s risky line-up changes and strategy paid off in crucial game of...
Big name stars out, grinders in… Team Canada coach Harry Sinden made all the right moves in Game Two of the 1972 Summit Series, pushing the buttons that helped his team come out on top 4-to-1, thus...
View ArticleBobby Clarke was the villain of 1972, but was he also Team Canada’s MVP?
The case for Clarke, Esposito, Park, Savard and, of course, Henderson (can’t see that name without thinking of Foster Hewitt’s call of the great goal). Eighteen million of us watched the final game of...
View ArticleHow Soviet Union coach Vsevolod Bobrov blew it in 1972 by not playing Anatoli...
The difference between victory and defeat in the 1972 Summit Series for the Soviet Union was likely the absence or injury of three of the country’s most thrilling attackers in the deciding Game 8. One...
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