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Recalls the 1972 showdown between Hockey's superpowers--the world champion team from the USSR and the stars of the NHL--in eight fiercely contended exhibition games
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In 1972, after enduring years of embarrassing defeat at the hands of Soviet "amateurs," Canadian officials convinced their Moscow counterparts to allow a pre-season, eight-game series between the best hockey players from both nations. For Team Canada, this meant a chance to assemble a "dream team" of NHL professionals and show the world that they still owned ice hockey.
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Cold War: The Amazing Canada-Soviet Hockey Series of 1972 takes you to the back rooms of the diplomats and apparatchiks who sanctioned this unlikely confrontation--and then puts you on the ice for the rest. The first four games were played on Canadian soil, in four different cities; the final four all took place at the Lenin Sports Complex in Moscow. Despite the absences of Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull, Team Canada's lineup was a memorable one: The Brothers Esposito, Phil and Tony; Paul Henderson; Serge Savard; Ken Dryden; and Frank Mahovlich. Canadians across the continent were confident of a complete blowout. "Eight-game sweep!" the leading sports columnists predicted.
But the Red Machine came prepared. The Soviets' fast-paced game of precision passing and surgical attack caught the cocky (and somewhat out-of-shape) Canadians off guard. By the time the series headed to Moscow, the Soviets had jolted Canada and insured that the remaining games would be remembered as perhaps the most fiercely fought hockey of all time.
Roy MacSkimming has been a book publisher in Toronto and literary columnist and books editor for the Toronto Star. He has held positions with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Association of Canadian Publishers. A native of Ottawa, he lives in the country near Perth, Ontario.
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- PublisherSterling Pub Co Inc
- Publication date1899
- ISBN 10 1550545825
- ISBN 13 9781550545821
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages274
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Octavo, softcover, near fine in red pictorial wraps. a hockey and historical masterpiece. Weaving together rich period detail, illuminating anecdote and thrilling hockey action with eyewitness accounts from Paul Henderson, Ken Dryden, Harry Sinden and other series greats, the author evokes as never before those 27 legendary days in September 1972. 274 pp. with index and photos. Book. Seller Inventory # 61596
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 274 pages. Index. "It was the greatest hockey series ever played - and it changed the game forever. Weaving together rich period detail, illuminating anecdote and thrilling hockey action with eyewitness accounts from Paul Henderson, Ken Dryden, Harry Sinden and other series greats, the author evokes as never before those 27 legendary days in September 1972." - from back cover. Great black and white illustrations. Discard stamp and remainder mark to top edge else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Seller Inventory # 154a4259
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