
🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 (OT)
Canada Cup Semifinal
Olympic Saddledome, Calgary 🇨🇦
Thursday, 13 September 1984
The moral of the story was: make sure never to do anything to upset the Soviet national ice hockey team.
The USA had the temerity to beat the vaunted team at the 1980 Olympics, but from that moment until the playoff round of the 1984 Canada Cup, the famed CCCP team did not lose a single game, including three perfect records at the World Championship in 1981, 1982, and 1983, as well as the 1984 Olympics. The team had also won the 1981 Canada Cup, demolishing Canada 8-1 at the Montréal Forum in the finals, and in 1984, they were well on their way to another international whitewash.
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