🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 5
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Friday, 22 September 1972
After arriving in Moscow from Sweden, Team Canada skated onto the ice at the Sports Palace with a monumental task at hand, but things got worse before they got better. Actually, they got better, then worse, then better.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 4
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Friday, 08 September 1972
Who knows how history might have changed had Soviet coach Vsevelod Bobrov been able to ice the lineup he wanted for Game Four.
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-4 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Summit Series, Game 3
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 06 September 1972
Now that the teams knew each other’s strengths and weaknesses, Game Three was played as evenly as one might expect between two hockey powers.
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Summit Series, Game 2
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto 🇨🇦
Monday, 04 September 1972
Canada’s stunning loss in Game One in Montréal made the next game, two nights later at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, a must-win.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 7-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 1
Forum de Montréal, Montréal 🇨🇦
Saturday, 02 September 1972
The genesis of the Summit Series can be traced to 1970, when Canada withdrew from international hockey in protest of the Soviet Union’s interpretation of the use of amateurs at the World Championships.
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🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
Exhibition Game
Ottawa Civic Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Sunday, 04 January 1970
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:14 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Payette
06:35 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Panchartek
09:45 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Watson
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🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 2-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Exhibition Game
Treasure Island Gardens, London 🇨🇦
Friday, 02 January 1970
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:39 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Haas
05:45 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Murdoch
17:12 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Lefley
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🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 4-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Exhibition Game
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto 🇨🇦
Thursday, 01 January 1970
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:02 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Irving, interference
07:37 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Hlinka (Kochta, Pospíšil)
14:07 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Nedomanský (Prýl, Suchý)
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🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Exhibition Game
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 30 December 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:41 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Stephanson
17:49 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Lefley
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
Exhibition Game
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Sunday, 28 December 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:51 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Ujváry
07:01 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Newell
14:59 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Conacher (Adams, Harris)
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 7-3 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Final Round
Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 26 March 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:32 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Maltsev
18:16 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Rantasila
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🇸🇪 Sweden 1-0 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
World Championship Final Round
Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 30 March 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
17:53 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Olsson (Milton)
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🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 4-3 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
World Championship Final Round
Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 28 March 1969
There is absolutely no doubt that the most emotionally charged games in the history of international hockey were the two between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in the 1969 IIHF World Championship in Stockholm.
These were two games which the Czechoslovaks simply could not lose.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Final Round
Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Monday, 24 March 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:04 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lundström
13:08 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Nygren (Hysing)
13:51 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Palmqvist
17:12 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Olsson
17:12 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Starshinov
17:45 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Petrov (Mikhailov)
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🇸🇪 Sweden 5-0 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Final Round
Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 23 March 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:14 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Karlsson (S. Johansson)
08:26 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Karlsson (Lundström)
10:37 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Yderström
15:10 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Rantasila
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🇸🇪 Sweden 5-1 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Final Round
Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Friday, 21 March 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:07 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Begg
01:33 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Sjöberg
03:11 – 🇨🇦 PEN – DeMarco
07:42 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Caffery (O’Malley)
11:00 – 🇨🇦 PEN – O’Malley
13:52 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Lundström (S. Johansson)
15:10 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Nordlander
15:57 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Pinder
15:57 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Sterner
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🇸🇪 Sweden 2-0 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
World Championship Final Round
Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 19 March 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:47 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Ji. Holík
01:59 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Pospíšil
02:32 – 🇸🇪 PP2 GOAL – Palmqvist (Sterner)
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🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 7-4 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Final Round
Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 18 March 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:33 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Ketola
07:17 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Nedomanský
07:40 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Lindström
10:43 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Suchý (Nedomanský)
11:13 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Ja. Holík
11:20 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Partinen (Rantasila)
12:07 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Machač (Pospíšil)
13:40 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Machač (Ja. Holík)
16:59 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Ji. Holík (Ja. Holík)
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🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 8-3 United States 🇺🇸
World Championship Final Round
Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Sunday, 16 March 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:12 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Lackey
01:21 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Nedomanský (Holík)
06:43 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Markle
14:25 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Reichart
15:29 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Farda
15:54 – 🇺🇸 PP GOAL – Lackey (Coppo)
19:08 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Farda
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🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 6-1 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Final Round
Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Saturday, 15 March 1969
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:30 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Bownass
13:41 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Ji. Holík
15:19 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Caffery
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