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Super Series '76 was the first of the "Super Series" ice hockey exhibitions, which saw club teams from Soviet Championship League touring North America to play against teams from the National Hockey League (NHL). The games were played in late December 1975 through the early part of January 1976, in the middle of the regular schedules of the NHL ...
Super Series '76-77 was an ice hockey tournament, which saw the team from HC CSKA Moscow, also called the "Red Army" in English (as all players were superficially members of the Soviet Army), touring North America to play against teams from the World Hockey Association (WHA).
The Super Series were exhibition games between Soviet teams and NHL teams that took place on the NHL opponents' home ice in North America from 1976 to 1991. The Soviet teams were usually club teams from the Soviet hockey league. The exception was in 1983, when the Soviet National Team represented the Soviet Union. A total of 18 series were held ...
The then-CBS affiliate in Boston, the old WNAC-TV, broadcast a local college hockey game that led into Sports Spectacular. The network, the show and their sponsors had a problem with the rink board advertising [54] that the NHL sold at Madison Square Garden, and refused to allow them to be shown on television. As a result, CBS viewers were ...
The Flyers–Red Army game was a famous international ice hockey game played on January 11, 1976, between the Philadelphia Flyers of the North America-based National Hockey League (NHL), and HC CSKA Moscow (Central Sports Club of the Army Moscow, Russian: ХК ЦСКА Москва, also known as the "Red Army Team", as all players were superficially members of the Soviet Army) of the Soviet ...
The success of the Summit Series led the NHL to organize further exhibitions against top Soviet clubs, such as the 1975-76 "Super Series '76 [189] This was followed by the inaugural Canada Cup "best-on-best" tournament in 1976. [189] In North America, the Series (particularly the first few games) exposed the need for better preparation and off ...
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Throughout the history of the National Hockey League (NHL), there has been a long-standing tradition of international games played by NHL teams.The following is a list of games played by NHL teams against other NHL teams and non-NHL teams outside the United States and Canada, as well games played by NHL teams in the United States and Canada against non-North American teams.