CA-K143Culture & sport

The 1972 Summit Series

The former Montréal Forum building on Sainte-Catherine Street, where Game One was played, photographed in 2014. Forum Pepsi (Montreal, CAN) · Jeangagnon · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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The 1972 Summit Series, eight games played in September 1972, was the first encounter between top Canadian professional hockey players and the Soviet Union’s national team. Team Canada won the series in Moscow with a come-from-behind victory, scoring the winning goal with 34 seconds left in the final game.

Scope & context

The series and its result, not individual players or later Canada–USSR series.

Sources behind this record

1972 Summit Series National Historic Event ↗

Parks Canada

Historical importance; plaque text (Montréal Forum)