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The Summit Series, Super Series 72, [1] Canada–USSR Series (Russian: Суперсерия СССР — Канада, romanized: Superseriya SSSR — Kanada), or Series of the Century (French: Série du siècle), was an eight-game ice hockey series between the Soviet Union and Canada, held in September 1972.
In 1972 the Soviets played Canada in an exhibition series that saw the Soviet national team play a team composed of National Hockey League (NHL) players for the first time. Both the Olympics and World Championships did not allow professionals, so the best Canadian players were never able to compete against the Soviets, and in protest at this ...
The following is a list of the annual point scoring champions of the top Russian ice hockey league of each era, from the Soviet Championship League to the current Kontinental Hockey League. Soviet Championship
A significant difference from the previous series was that Canada's roster was selected from the World Hockey Association instead of the National Hockey League. [ 1 ] The top scorers of the Soviet team were Alexander Yakushev (5 goals, 3 assists), as well as Vladimir Petrov (2 goals, 6 assists), and Valery Kharlamov (2 goals, 5 assists).
The 1987 Labatt Canada Cup was a professional international ice hockey tournament held from August 28 to September 15, 1987. The finals took place in Montreal on September 11 and Hamilton , on September 13 and September 15, and were won by Team Canada .
The Soviet Hockey Championship (Russian: Чемпионат СССР по хоккею) was the highest level ice hockey league in the Soviet Union, running from 1946 to 1992. Before the 1940s the game of ice hockey was not cultivated in Russia , instead the more popular form of hockey was bandy .
The Soviet Union participated in nine tournaments, the first in 1956 and the last in 1988. A total of 11 goaltenders and 95 skaters represented the Soviet Union at the Olympics. The Olympic Games were originally intended for amateur athletes, so the players of the National Hockey League (NHL) and other professional leagues were not allowed to ...
So they also won the final against Canada with 8–1. They also beat the best of the NHL in the 1979 Challenge Cup by winning the final, decisive game 6–0. In the 1984 Canada Cup, the KLM series collected another 18 points (10 + 8) in six games. However, they lost the semifinals to Canada 2–3 in overtime.