Jul 4, 2022
We're back from vacation with a
50th anniversary rewind of 1972's iconic "Summit Series" between
"Team Canada" (featuring the NHL's best from north of the border)
and the then-Soviet Union - with veteran sports journalist/hockey
analyst Scott Morrison ("1972: The Series That Changed Hockey
Forever").
It's a deep dive into the curious,
yet now-iconic battle between the hockey's two top superpowers at
the time - played against the backdrop of global 1970s-era Cold War
tensions - that morphed from a relatively unassuming cultural
exchange-oriented pre-season "exhibition" into the defining
hallmark of each country's rich hockey heritage.
All
culminating with Toronto Maple Leaf forward Paul Henderson's dramatic and
decisive late-third-period "goal heard around the world"
(on September 28,
1972) to clinch the eighth and final game of an epic month-long
hockey series that, to this day, remains Canada's most enduring
professional sports triumph.