Canada's Team Of The Century (Region 1 DVD) 1972 Canada Vs. U.S.S.R. Games 1-8
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Commentary: (Region 1 DVD)DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Running Time: 1140 minutes
Published: 1972
Audience Rating: Unrated
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DVD Review: the best series ever played?
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw some of the Summit Series replayed on TV a few years back. I'd heard and read a bit about it. Once I watched the games and went to all the websites I realized just how momentous this was at the time. You had all the elements of prime time drama. Our national heroes suffer a humiliating first-game loss when everyone expected them to annihilate the Soviets. They come back with a gutsy win at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, have a lead get away on them and end up with a tie in Game 3 (felt more like a loss) and then the fourth game in Vancouver when the Soviets skate laps around us. No matter what their social background or the way they were developed, the Soviets proved they were just as talented, physically robust and courageous as North Americans were. They took a commanding 2 games to 1 lead and the Canadian public basically blacklists and disowns Team Canada as a bunch of 'frauds' and 'slackers'. Hence the famous TV tirade by Esposito when he acknowledged what we were up against and that the players were really busting it despite a comparative lack of conditioning.....Then they go behind the Iron Curtain, contending with late night phone calls, stolen equipment and constant harassment from Soviet bureaucrats. Seemingly on their own in a foreign land, they unexpectedly see 3000 Canadians fly half way around the world to fill Luzhniki Arena. They play a strong Game 5, only to have it slip away from them late. Now they are close to contending with their Russian foes every step of the way. Game Six features Team Canada battling the Soviets and some questionable refereeing, as they make it a series again. The seventh game, a dramatic hard checking defensive battle sees it 2-2 going to the third period. Gilbert scores making it 3-2, but a Canadian penalty sees the Soviets tie it up. And then perhaps one of the most infamous cheap shots in hockey history, as Bergman and Mikhailov get into a massive scrum along the boards. Mikhailov kicks Bergman skate blade first and the victim responds with a piston house right on the kicker's jaw. And that Henderson guy ends up beating 2 Russian defenceman and then Tretiak for the winner. All tied up with 1 game left. Soviet officials realize how close they are to losing this political prize, so they try some back room trickery. They attempt to bring back the 2 biased German referees who worked the sixth game . Canada draws the line, and says they wont play if they don the whistle. One of the greatest games of all time almost got cancelled! So each team gets to pick one ref. All taken care of right? Nope...Canada finds itself 2 men down 3 min in and Yakushev makes it 1-0. Then Parise gets called for interference, and tensions come to a head as he gestures as if to slash the German official . Parise gets tossed, Team Canada throws a fit...And yet somehow, we hang in there. It goes back and forth. A late 2nd period burst sees Russia up 5-3 with one to go. Cue Esposito for the goal to make it 5-4. Then Cournoyer ties it all up. But not without more drama. The goal judge does not put the light on , and Eagleson feels theyre going to be cheated again by Mother Russia. Trying to get to the scorers booth to ensure the goal counts, he's picked off by Soviet soldiers. Team Canada charges over the boards and fends off the captors. Eagleson gives a middle finger salute to the goal judge and the Soviet big wigs in the stands as hes escorted back by the players. The USSR says theyll claim a series win if the game ends in a tie based on goal differential. There's a goal mouth scramble, and then perhaps the most famous broadcaster's call in sports history ......Canada does the unthinkable. Beats the Soviets coming back from a 2 game deficit on THEIR ice. Sticking it to all the officials and politicians who tried to foil them, re-establishing themselves as national heros and changing the game forever. You tell me how a modern Hollywood script-writer can beat this! It is in my books the greatest series ever played in hockey history.
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It is a moment unlike any other in time. From coast to coast, Canadais united by the game we call our own. The outcome of this prehistoric "Summit Series" is decided in the final minute of the final game. After playing the Soviets in the Forum, Maple Leaf Gardens, Winnipeg and Vancouver, Team Canada leaves for Moscow with only one victory on home ice. Behind the Iron Curtain, they lose the first of the remaining four at the Luzhniki Ice Palace. What follows, is the most dramatic hockey series ever played.Bestsellers in DVD
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