🇷🇺 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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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 8-5 Canada 🇨🇦 – 21 Sep 1974
🇷🇺 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 19 Sep 1974
🇨🇦 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 3-3 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 17 Sep 1974
🇨🇦 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇦 Canada 6-5 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 28 Sep 1972
🇨🇦 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
🇨🇦 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
🇨🇦 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
🇷🇺 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
🇷🇺 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
🇨🇦 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
🇷🇺 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 – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 7-3 Finland 🇫🇮 – 26 Mar 1969
🇷🇺 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 4-3 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 28 Mar 1969
🇨🇿 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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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 24 Mar 1969
🇷🇺 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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IHLC Results – 🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 5-4 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 15 Feb 1968
🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 5-4 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Olympic Final Round
Palais des Sports, Grenoble 🇫🇷
Thursday, 15 February 1968
The Soviet Union started to monopolize international hockey in 1963 with their third World Championship Gold medal.
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 13 Feb 1968
🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
Olympic Final Round
Palais des Sports, Grenoble 🇫🇷
Tuesday, 13 February 1968
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:47 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Firsov (Polupanov)
13:18 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Öberg (Bengtsson)
17:48 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Romishevsky, hooking
19:09 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Blinov, boarding
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IHLC Results – 🇸🇪 Sweden 6-4 Soviet Union 🇷🇺 – 05 Jan 1968
🇸🇪 Sweden 6-4 Soviet Union 🇷🇺
Centennial Tournament
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Friday, 05 January 1968
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:52 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Nygren (Öberg)
13:45 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Lundström
14:17 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Ionov
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-0 Sweden 🇸🇪 – 02 Jan 1968
🇷🇺 Soviet Union 3-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Centennial Tournament
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 02 January 1968
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:22 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Blinov
04:25 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Öberg
08:54 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Polupanov
14:40 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Olsson
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IHLC Results – 🇷🇺 Soviet Union 4-2 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿 – 29 Mar 1967
🇷🇺 Soviet Union 4-2 Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
World Championship Final Round
Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Wednesday, 29 March 1967
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:02 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Ja. Holík
04:00 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Šmíd
05:14 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Firsov
08:58 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Polupanov
08:58 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Pospíšil
09:55 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Golonka (Jiřík)
10:13 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Zaitsev (Almetov)
14:19 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Vikulov
14:19 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Ivanov
16:12 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Nedomanský
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