Our story went to press two days after the final game see a repeat of the Team Canada-Soviet format in a couple of years, but the N.H.L. already has other plans. In an end-run around Eagleson, N.H.L. President Clarence Campbell struck a deal in Moscow that may have the Soviet Read more…
The Russians hold Canada to a Draw September 6 Game 3 — (filing from Winnipeg) After Canada’s 7-3 humiliation at the hands of the Soviet Union Saturday, coach Harry Sinden decided to introduce some muscle into Canada’s second game line-up in Toronto Monday. Sinden turned in particular to bruising Boston Read more…
The Summit Series Was Years in the Making [From Ottawa to Moscow, and a few stops in between, a legion of bureaucrats and hockey executives set the table for what became one of the great sporting spectacles of the era.] But nowhere was the intrigue more sophisticated, than in the Read more…