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Known for his skating and checking, he also won the Summit Series with Team Canada against the Soviet Union in 1972 and the Memorial Cup with the junior Toronto Marlboros in 1964
Players who had long NHL careers, enough to make a name for themselves, but still managed a one-game stop with a team along the way.
Ed- The following is an excerpt from John U. Bacon’s latest book, The Greatest Comeback, How Team Canada Fought Back, Took the Summit Series, and Reinvented Hockey. If you’re familiar with the 1972 Summit Series, according to its principles and participants this is the best and most comprehensive accounting of that incredible sports moment of many written. If this is new to you, this book is the best introduction to one of the consequential moments in sports history, when East met West, when the hubris of liberal capitalism crashed into the cheap hypocrisy of totalitarian communism. It was...
It's been nearly 50 years since millions of Canadians sat holding their breath, glued to the grainy black-and-white television images being beamed into living rooms, offices and schools from a rink in Moscow.
Walter Gretzky’s recent passing has elicited much comment and reaction across Canada.