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Stupid anniversaries
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from TSN webpage:
Here’s a shot. Henderson makes a wild stab for it and falls," Foster Hewitt breathlessly described. “Here’s another shot. Right in front. They Score!! Henderson has scored for Canada!”
Almost any Canadian who is old enough can tell you exactly what he or she was doing on September 28, 1972, when Paul Henderson scored the 6-5 goal at 19:26 of the final period of the Summit Series. For a moment, the world stood still, and then as the red light flickered behind Soviet goaltender Vladislav Tretiak, Canadian hearts filled with joy, and relief.
Henderson’s goal sealed a remarkable comeback victory over a Soviet squad that had pushed Canada to the brink of defeat. Of course, none of this was supposed to happen. Team Canada was composed of the National Hockey League’s greatest stars, and were expected to easily defeat their communist counterparts. However, the success of the Soviets stunned Canadians, who had always unquestioningly believed in their country’s hockey supremacy.
Team Canada restored the faith of fans by fighting back to win the final three games of the series, all on game-winning goals by Paul Henderson. Henderson was a talented but unspectacular left winger who was the unlikeliest of heroes.
“I found myself with the puck in front of the net,” remembers Henderson. “Tretiak made one stop and the puck came right back to me. There was room under him, so I poked the puck through.”
“When I saw it go in, I just went bonkers.” Millions of thrilled and extremely relieved Canadians went bonkers as well.
Thirty years later, Canadians are still going “bonkers” about the series. Russians too have equally fond although often different memories about the clash at the top of the hockey world three decades ago.- i believe i was in utero at the time, not about to enter the world for another 5 months and one week.
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I an gladdened that you ‘remember’ it so fondly! - Xi
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THat was a pretty high scoring game. :wink:
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Canadians remember their hockey )
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