🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Canada Cup Final, Game 3
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 15 September 1987

Although the history of hockey has many touchstones for any ideal of greatness, there was arguably no finer hockey ever played than in the best-of-three finals of the 1987 Canada Cup between the host nation and the Soviet Union. Of course, there have been other exceptional moments in the game.

But 1987 had it all. It featured games in the modern era, where every minute of every game could be captured on film and appreciated time and again and compared to other great modern moments; it had familiar players; it had late-game heroics; and, most of all, it featured a pure level of skill that has never been matched before or since.
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🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 (2OT)
Canada Cup Final, Game 2
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton 🇨🇦
Sunday, 13 September 1987

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:43 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Rochefort (Messier, Hawerchuk)
01:27 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Khomutov (Bykov)
01:42 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Gilmour, high sticking
03:48 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Gilmour (Rochefort, Gretzky)
04:54 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Semyonov, hooking
08:49 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Lemieux, high sticking
08:49 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Nemchinov, high sticking
09:50 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Messier, high sticking
11:21 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Nemchinov, interference
11:21 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Crossman, roughing
12:41 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Coffey (Gretzky, Gartner)
19:29 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Gartner, charging
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