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Finns lose ... When something could not have dreamed in a nightmare.
Losing in hockey, we can not recognize the Olympics a success, even if we first medal standings. For the older generation - it is an axiom, and those who are younger shrug.
All clear. They just have not found those times ...




And for us it is a good occasion to remember the times of great hockey fights when losing to the Finns could not dream in a nightmare ... Summit Series USSR-Canada significance was completely comparable to Gagarin's flight into space.

It was not just a sporting event, but the opposition systems, the world capital against the vanguard of the socialist system. Yes, it looks like this look!

To understand this difference, just look at the photos. This bully bully - the great Bobby Clarke


And this is also a star, but the Soviet hockey the same period, Vladimir Shadrin. Not enough Komsomol icon))


In this totally epic Super Series has its own prehistory.
We all know that Canadians - the ancestors of hockey, and of course they reigned unchallenged in the sport. But in the 50s very loudly declared themselves Czech and Soviet squads. They beat the Canadians at the world championships and the Olympics!
That's just the Canadians were there not the best ... In a word, there was that same situation, Lion vs. Tiger)) And they were afraid of each other. In Canada, the legendary virtuoso command of the Soviet masters of the game, in the Soviet Union were talking about the irresistible force pressure from Canadians.

They are so afraid of each other, by mutual agreement decided to play a trial game, which no one was supposed to know. This game took place in 1966 in the city of Kalinin (Tver), this game is not conducted reports, it has not been written in the national press.
Of course, our outwitted Canadians. Was invited to a professional team "Sherbrooke Beavers", which came on the game without feeling dirty trick, with the intention to put in place these upstarts. Upstarts were not born yesterday, but the catch was not the case. Anatoly Tarasov specially picked team of professional boxers. There was one condition - to be able to stand on skates))

He recalls Anatoly Tarasov:

 - We had to make a match - to Canadians long remembered. The judge was ours, he was told - not whistle! Fouls today will not. Should not be. And I've had seven of these fighters, besides my last week of training were very cruel. It was necessary to wean Canadians raise a fist at us!
 - It was an amazing sight - two minutes later all my they are sitting on top - who fetched, who bludgeons, and so on. And suddenly - a police-soldier cordon was breached. And the people fled. Could it be unpleasant. I gave the order - released our Canadians. Their playing coach Roy lies near the board, then the medics came - was taken.

Much later in his book Tarasov writes:

"It was not a good match, players often fight a lot. It was dirty hockey. But we were forced to spend the experiment to Canadians took us by surprise. Before the next meeting, we will insist that matches those held within the rules - in the end, the rules do not allow professionals to organize on the slaughter and fights. It says only that the power struggle is allowed all over the field. By this power struggle, we are ready. But just in case we decided to meet Canadians and play this coarse, horrible hockey. Experiment we were satisfied ... We feel that we can play in different hockey, including in the most severe, and in order to win our athletes are capable of self-sacrifice ».

All this is important to know what would understand what the atmosphere was a preparation for the Summit Series-72 ...
By the way, Mikhail Suslov was against it, and only a resolute decision Brezhnev sparked the green light this great series.

I will not describe in detail these games, hockey fans, and so all is well remembered, I just suggest to all to plunge into the quite incredible atmosphere, which lived in the September 72nd the whole world!



At that time it was probably the strongest team with the exception of Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe, who then went into a rival league WHA ...

In the USSR, these guys were the best ...




The game is a game, but what was it luck here so go and buy branded wheels! I say without irony, for me as a person "in the subject line," it was a dream, and 15 years later, after '72 ...




Jean Savard puts Vyacheslav Anissina cowboy hat


Canadians gave our ... Matryoshka))


For the first game of the series observed by several million people in Europe, more than twenty five million Canadians and Americans, and about twenty million viewers in the Soviet Union watched the game at home.










The first game we won with a score of 7: 3, and for many Canadians it was a shock.

One well-known Canadian sports journalist vowed to eat his article where he promised to dry Canadians win in the series, if he is not right. Well, well, the word had to keep))


Absolutely epic confrontation between two warriors, as two of the world as Relight with Chelubey Alexander Ragulin and Phil Esposito!






Cool battered Kharlamov ...


And Maltsev ...


Canadians - children overall. Pete Mahovlich


Yakushev Mishakov again Yakushev ...






Vasiliev and Ron Ellis




Bobby Clark and Valery Kharlamov


By the way, the Swiss company Omega released a special series of watches ...


Valery Kharlamov broke his collarbone, but Canadians respected him. And on his hand so that's Omega))


Tickets were not to get ...


Before the start of the fifth match, during the announcement of the players, Phil Esposito slipped and fell right on the ass. However, the Canadian kept his head and got up on one knee, gave a nod to fans, earning thereby applause. Tretiak then on this occasion recalled: "If I or anyone else from my team-mates down here so we would not find a place of shame. We would never have done so, as Phil Esposito - as an artist, with such elegance ».


The game was no longer a laughing matter ...
















A series won the Canadians, they won 4 matches in our 3 and one game ended in a tie score.

But it was not so important. Much more importantly, it was a real game - a great hockey.