The Greatest Sports Series in the History of the World

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Talk about a real miracle on ice.  Canada had to win the last 3 games in Moscow to win the series.  It didn’t look good.  The Soviets had 3 wins, Canada 1 win and one game tied.  Then the miracle happened.

The Summit Series, 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. It was the first competition between the Soviet national team and a Canadian team represented by professional players of the National Hockey League (NHL), known as Team Canada. It was the first international ice hockey competition for Canada after Canada had withdrawn from international ice hockey competitions in a dispute with the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The series was organized with the intention to create a true best-on-best competition in the sport of ice hockey. The Soviets had become the dominant team in international competitions, which disallowed the professional players of Canada. Canada had a long history of dominance of the sport prior to the Soviets’ rise.

The first four games of the series were held in Canada and the final four in Moscow. The Soviet Union surprised the Canadian team and most of the hockey media with an opening game victory, 7–3. Many sportswriters had predicted an overwhelming victory for Canada in the series. Canada won the next game 4–1; the third game was a tie and the Soviets won game four to take a two games to one lead after the Canadian segment. The series resumed two weeks later in Moscow. The Soviets won game five to take a three games to one series lead. The Canadians won the final three games in Moscow to win the series four games to three, with one tie. The final game was won in dramatic fashion, with the Canadians overcoming a two-goal Soviet lead after two periods. The Canadians scored three in the third, the final one scored with 34 seconds left, by Paul Henderson.

Canada-USSR Summit Series

Canada
Game one	USSR 7 – Canada 3
Game two	Canada 4 – USSR 1
Game three	Canada 4 – USSR 4
Game four	USSR 5 – Canada 3
Soviet Union
Game five	USSR 5 – Canada 4
Game six	Canada 3 – USSR 2
Game seven	Canada 4 – USSR 3
Game eight	Canada 6 – USSR 5

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