From time to time, TheIHLC.com will feature detailed recaps and boxscores of some of the most legendary games in international hockey history, considered to be “IHLC Classics.” Today, to commemorate the historic fiftieth anniversary of the second and final Summit Series in 1974, we look back at the oft-forgotten Series between the top Soviet players facing off against the best Canadian players from the upstart World Hockey Association.

🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 8
Luzhniki Palace Of Sports, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 06 October 1974

Unlike in 1972, there would be no climatic Game 8 in 1974. Team Canada had lost the series.
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