๐ท๐บ Soviet Union 3-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Summit Series, Game 8
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow ๐ท๐บ
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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๐ท๐บ Soviet Union 4-4ย Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Summit Series, Game 7
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow ๐ท๐บ
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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๐ท๐บ Soviet Union 5-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Summit Series, Gameย 6
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow ๐ท๐บ
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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๐ท๐บ Soviet Union 3-2 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Summit Series, Game 5
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow ๐ท๐บ
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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๐ท๐บ Soviet Union 5-5ย Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Summit Series, Gameย 4
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver ๐จ๐ฆ
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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๐ท๐บ Soviet Union 8-5ย Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Summit Series, Game 3
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg ๐จ๐ฆ
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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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1ย Soviet Union ๐ท๐บ
Summit Series, Game 2
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto ๐จ๐ฆ
Thursday, 19 September 1974
Aside from Boris Mikhailovโs 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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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-3ย Soviet Union ๐ท๐บ
Summit Series, Game 1
Colisรฉeย deย Quรฉbec,ย Quรฉbec ๐จ๐ฆ
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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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-3ย Czechoslovakia ๐จ๐ฟ
Exhibition Game
Sportovnรญ Hala, Prague ๐จ๐ฟ
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 NHLโs great stars. Now, nearly a quarter of a century later, he was coming home.
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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 6-5 Soviet Union ๐ท๐บ
Summit Series, Game 8
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow ๐ท๐บ
Thursday, 28 September 1972
โHenderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Hereโs another shotโฆright in front! They score! Henderson has scored for Canada!โ โ Foster Hewitt
It is the most famous goal call in Canadaโs long and rich hockey history, and it came from the gameโs greatest voice exactly 50 years ago today, at the Sports Palace in Moscow.
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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-3ย Soviet Union ๐ท๐บ
Summit Series, Game 7
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow ๐ท๐บ
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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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 3-2 Soviet Union ๐ท๐บ
Summit Series, Game 6
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow ๐ท๐บ
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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๐ท๐บ Soviet Union 5-4 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Summit Series, Game 5
Palace Of Sports Of The Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow ๐ท๐บ
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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๐ท๐บ Soviet Unionย 5-3 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Summit Series, Game 4
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver ๐จ๐ฆ
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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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-4ย Soviet Union ๐ท๐บ
Summit Series, Game 3
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg ๐จ๐ฆ
Wednesday, 06 September 1972
Now that the teams knew each otherโs strengths and weaknesses, Game Three was played as evenly as one might expect between two hockey powers.
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๐จ๐ฆ Canada 4-1ย Soviet Union ๐ท๐บ
Summit Series, Game 2
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto ๐จ๐ฆ
Monday, 04 September 1972
Canadaโs stunning loss in Game One in Montrรฉal made the next game, two nights later at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, a must-win.
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๐ท๐บ Soviet Union 7-3 Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
Summit Series, Gameย 1
Forum de Montrรฉal,ย Montrรฉal ๐จ๐ฆ
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 Unionโs interpretation of the use of amateurs at the World Championships.
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