Friday marks 50 years since Canada faced off against the Soviet Union in a bitter battle on the ice, beginning with Game 1 of the Summit Series at the Montreal Forum.
The series wasn't just about hockey -- in the midst of the Cold War, the 1972 series came to represent a struggle between political ideologies.
"We were Canadians. We were the originators of hockey, we were the developers of hockey, and we were the best in the world in hockey. And yet, every year, during the 1960s, the Soviets were called World Champions," recalled goaltender Ken Dryden in an interview with CTV Montreal."The first thing that occurred to Canadian players was when the Russians came out, they were wearing mismatched equipment," said NHL historian Dave Stubbs in a CTV interview.
"We thought, 'Oh isn't this wonderful, this is what we thought it was going to be,'" forward Peter Mahovlich told CTV."All of a sudden, somebody crashes the party, and it's disaster," said Dryden.Team Canada goalie Ken Dryden looks back at the puck as it enters the net during Summit Series action in Montreal on Saturday, Sept. 2, 1972. Dryden had seven goals against him in the first game of the series, won 7–3 by the U.S.S.R.
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