Ice Hockey Ussr Vs Canada 1972

Games were held at the makomanai ice arena and at the tsukisamu indoor skating rink.

Ice hockey ussr vs canada 1972. The united states won the silver while czechoslovakia won the bronze. Most expected that canada would handily defeat the soviet union but this confidence quickly disappeared when canada lost the first game. Canada s lone victory came at maple leaf gardens in toronto. Game 8 moscow sept.

For canadians the series against the soviet union which was the first time. The soviet union won its fourth gold medal. The summit series or super series in russian суперсерия ссср канада. The 1974 summit series was the second of two competitions between soviet and canadian professional ice hockey players.

The format was the same as the 1972 summit series with four games across canada and four in moscow. Eight games that not only changed hockey but also became a defining national event. Canada did not send a team to the event for the first time since ice hockey was first competed at the olympics in 1920 instead competing with and defeating the soviets in a competition. Superseriya sssr canada known at the time simply as the canada ussr series was an eight game series of ice hockey between the soviet union and canada held in september 1972.

28 1972 canada 6 soviet union 5. The soviet team won the series 4 1 3 over canada. The 1972 summit series between the best from russia and the best from canada turned out to be one of the most significant events not only in hockey history but also in canadian history. In 1972 the soviets played canada in an exhibition series that saw the soviet national team play a team composed of national hockey league nhl players for the first time.

Canada was represented by world hockey association players instead of the national hockey league players that played in the 1972 summit series. Both the olympics and world championships did not allow professionals so the best canadian players were never able to compete against the soviets and in protest at this canada had left international hockey in 1970. For many canadians the eight game series between team canada and the national team of the soviet union in 1972 provided the greatest moment in the country s sporting history.