IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-3 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿 – 30 Sep 1972

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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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 28 Sep 1972

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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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 26 Sep 1972

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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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 24 Sep 1972

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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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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 – 22 Sep 1972

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🇷🇺 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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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 08 Sep 1972

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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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-4 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 06 Sep 1972

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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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 04 Sep 1972


🇨🇦 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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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 7-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 02 Sep 1972

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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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 4-0 Canada 🇨🇦 – 01 Jan 1970

🇨🇿 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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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 5-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 21 Mar 1969

🇸🇪 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 6-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 15 Mar 1969

🇨🇿 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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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 03 Jan 1968

🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-1 Canada 🇨🇦
Centennial Tournament
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 03 January 1968

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:09 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Davydov
03:01 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Cusson (O’Shea)
03:42 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Smith
05:08 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Firsov
07:44 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Dineen
07:44 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Ionov
08:35 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Begg
12:03 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Ionov
14:51 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Begg
15:25 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Romishevsky
15:25 – 🇨🇦 PEN – O’Shea
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦 – 27 Mar 1967

🇷🇺 Soviet Union 2-1 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Final Round
Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Monday, 27 March 1967

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:30 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Dineen
02:30 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Vikulov
05:05 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Yaroslavtsev
05:35 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Huck (Brewer)
10:41 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Polupanov
15:27 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Ivanov, minor + misconduct
16:36 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Bourbonnais
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-3 Canada 🇨🇦 – 12 Jan 1967

🇷🇺 Soviet Union 5-3 Canada 🇨🇦
Exhibition Game
Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, Kitchener 🇨🇦
Thursday, 12 January 1967

BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:58 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Brezhnev, holding
06:53 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Conlin, holding
15:24 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Huck (Mott)

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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 10 Jan 1967

🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Exhibition Game
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 10 January 1967

BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:28 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Bourbonnais, interference
15:01 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Davydov, interference
18:28 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Polupanov
19:21 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Striganov, hooking

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