Former Sault residents Phil and Tony Esposito were part of Team Canada during the series
A shrinking generation of Canadians who can remember the 1972 Summit Series, and fewer of those who played in it alive with each passing year, gave documentarians urgent reasons in addition to a 50th anniversary to retell an epic hockey story.
A half-century later, the Summit Series is in danger of fading from the Canadian hockey consciousness. "The most challenging part was telling the story anew," co-producer Ravi Baichwal said. "A lot of people of a certain generation know the story, but a lot of younger people don't know the story. The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies turned the hockey showdown into a symbolic clash of cultural and political systems.
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