🇷🇺 Soviet Union 8-1 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Final Round
Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Friday, 06 May 1977
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:55 – 🇨🇦 PEN – G. Smith
03:18 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Russell
04:26 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Tsygankov (Mikhailov)
06:24 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Vasiliev
06:46 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – G. Smith
08:22 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Vadnais, minor + 10 min. misconduct
13:40 – 🇨🇦 PEN – P. Esposito
13:40 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Petrov
18:01 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Babinov
18:01 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Vail, major + 10 min. misconduct
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🇨🇦 Canada 7-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
World Championship Final Round
Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Wednesday, 04 May 1977
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:07 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Merrick (Hampton)
04:45 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Larouche (Hampton)
06:09 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Vail
09:20 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Vail
13:17 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Russell
14:29 – 🇸🇪 PEN – team, too many players
16:26 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – P. Esposito (G. Smith, Ellis)
18:37 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Gilbert
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🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 3-3 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Preliminary Round
Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Tuesday, 26 April 1977
BOXSCORE
1st Period
18:24 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Pouzar
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🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 1-0 Canada 🇨🇦
Canada Cup Group Round
Forum de Montréal, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 09 September 1976
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:54 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Potvin, tripping
02:28 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Martinec, hooking
12:33 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Dionne
15:02 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Chalupa, tripping
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Canada Cup Group Round
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 07 September 1976
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:47 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Potvin, interference
04:12 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Hull (Esposito, Dionne)
09:30 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lundström, elbowing
11:59 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Shutt, cross checking
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-2 United States 🇺🇸
Canada Cup Group Round
Forum de Montréal, Montréal 🇨🇦
Sunday, 05 September 1976
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:21 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Shutt, tripping
01:14 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Nanne, roughing
01:14 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Potvin, roughing
03:24 – 🇺🇸 PEN – team, too many players
04:47 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Esposito (Dionne, Orr)
12:39 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Polich, holding
12:51 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Mahovlich (Orr, Shutt)
18:15 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Hull (Dionne, Potvin)
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🇨🇦 Canada 11-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Canada Cup Group Round
Ottawa Civic Centre, Ottawa 🇨🇦
Thursday, 02 September 1976
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:15 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Hagman
03:54 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Martin (Lafleur, Lapointe)
06:38 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Hull (Orr, Potvin)
07:11 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Esposito (Hull, Orr)
12:20 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Hull
14:23 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Lapointe
17:09 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Oksanen (E. Peltonen)
17:46 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Dionne
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🇨🇦 Canada 7-4 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
Exhibition Game
Forum de Montréal, Montréal 🇨🇦
Monday, 30 August 1976
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:58 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Hlinka (Holík)
02:13 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Chalupa, interference
03:04 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Lafleur (Shutt, Potvin)
05:41 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – B. Šťastný (Martinec, Novák)
07:31 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Martin (Lafleur, Vadnais)
10:36 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Barber (Clarke, Leach)
14:35 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Hull (Esposito, Savard)
17:06 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Bubla, tripping
19:01 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Lafleur (Esposito, Hull)
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 8
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, 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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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 4-4 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 7
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Saturday, 05 October 1974
As time was ticking down in Game 7, with the score knotted 4-4, Team Canada mounted a last-second push to win the game. With a tie, the Soviets would take the series. But with a win, they could still even it up with another victory in Game 8.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 6
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Thursday, 03 October 1974
Ahead of a crucial Game 6, the players on Team Canada decided to gather together in one of their rooms to discuss a change in strategy.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 5
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Tuesday, 01 October 1974
Dubbed the Friendship Series before it began, the series had become anything but by the time Team Canada touched down in Moscow.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-5 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 4
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Monday, 23 September 1974
Despite the presence of the ageless Gordie Howe, it was the peerless Hull who awed the Soviets in 1974.
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🇷🇺 Soviet Union 8-5 Canada 🇨🇦
Summit Series, Game 3
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Saturday, 21 September 1974
With a win and a tie, no one would have been surprised had Bill Harris stuck with the same lineup for Game 3 at the Winnipeg Arena.
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Summit Series, Game 2
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto 🇨🇦
Thursday, 19 September 1974
Aside from Boris Mikhailov’s overenthusiastic pre-game faceoff, the series opener had gone as smoothly as Canadian diplomats had hoped. But off the ice, trouble was brewing.
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-3 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Summit Series, Game 1
Colisée de Québec, Québec 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 17 September 1974
The ceremonial puck drop was just supposed to be a photo op when Pat Stapleton and Boris Mikhailov lined up at center ice at La Colisee de Quebec in Quebec City.
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-3 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
Exhibition Game
Sportovní Hala, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 30 September 1972
What few today remember is that after the game (Game 8 of the Summit Series) the Canadians had to fly to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to play an all-star team in what was an historic return home for Stan Mikita, who had moved to Canada as a young boy in 1948 and made a name for himself as one of the NHL’s great stars. Now, nearly a quarter of a century later, he was coming home.
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🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Summit Series, Game 8
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Thursday, 28 September 1972
“Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here’s another shot…right in front! They score! Henderson has scored for Canada!” – Foster Hewitt
It is the most famous goal call in Canada’s long and rich hockey history, and it came from the game’s greatest voice exactly 50 years ago today, at the Sports Palace in Moscow.
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Summit Series, Game 7
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Tuesday, 26 September 1972
Game Seven was another must-win game for Canada, and it ended in dramatic fashion as Henderson scored the go-ahead goal with just 2:06 left in the game on one of the greatest efforts in hockey history.
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Summit Series, Game 6
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow 🇷🇺
Sunday, 24 September 1972
Indeed, Canada did in Game Six what it failed to do two days earlier, though only by the skin of its collective teeth. The team gained the lead and held on for the win, scoring three times in 83 seconds in the second period and then checking the Soviets into the ice in the final, scoreless period for a 3-2 win.
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