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The Summit Series remembered after 50 years Today marks the 50th anniversary of Paul Henderson’s historic goal to give Team Canada the edge in the 1972 Summit Series over Russia. The entire series created a lasting memory for a nation, with many recalling it as the greatest sports moment in Canadian history. So here, a few local fans and a couple of added ‘friends’ who were old enough in 1972 to remember the series look back with their memories. Randy Atkinson, local radio broadcaster
I could Google the Summit Series and a ga-billion sites would pop up. But since there was no social media in 1972 - I’ll go by memory. I had just graduated from the YRHS that summer. Everyone knew the Summit Series was coming. But, no one knew what that meant. The Russians consistently won the World Championships and Olympics. They were considered amateurs - so we could never have our very best pros play them - until the Summit Series. Getting information wasn’t like it is today - TV (2 channels), radio and newspaper. They called it Team Canada - but as a Bobby Hull fan since 1961, I was choked when they left him off the team. Hull had just finished 3rd in scoring - but had signed with the Winnipeg Jets of the WHL - the pol-
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itics of sports. And Bobby Orr - his Bruins won the Stanley Cup that year missed the entire series - it was the beginning of serious knee problems for him. Two real difference-makers though - Hull & Orr. Most were unsure what to make of this. NHL’ers should clobber these guys - shouldn’t they? But, the likes of Ken Dryden, Frank Mahovolich and Dave King (and some others), all said these guys are really good. We’ll see and we did. We scored in the 1st minute of game 1 - and then to quote Vince Lombardi - “WHAT THE HELL’S GOING ON OUT HERE? With the Canadian portion of the series done - it’s 1 win, 2 losses and a tie. And we were introduced to Yakashev, Kharlmov and this 20-year-old goalie Vladislav Tretiak - playing brilliantly! Now to Russia and - lose the first one - need the last 3!! I think most of us were stunned. At times it had also been a very vicious and dirty series. Bobby Clarke’s two hander on Kharlamov would have gotten him a big time suspension today. JP Parise, angry over the barrage of Canadian penalties, skated by the officials with his stick poised to swing at someone’s head. But, the Canadians had been taking a lot of slashes and high sticks from the Russians too they didn’t play physical. And there was no getting back at these guys - “I’ll wait until we play them again” - there was no again - no Russians
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were in the NHL. Then I think Canadian players began to put all the other crap behind them - we can’t go out like this - let’s play hockey. Win game 6 & game 7 - WOW - still in it.!! Paul Henderson gets the game winner in both games. Paul Henderson!! Wasn’t even sure he was good enough to make the team. I’m sure those that can remember that far back (50 years) - for us Canadians - we know where we watched the game and who we were with. Then, complete agony and anguish when we trailed by 2 going into the 3rd. Really!! Battle all the way back, and then fall short. But I believe this is also the beginning of our ability to raise our game by playing with emotion never quit - work harder - will yourself to greatness. Third period - we tie the game - then, with less than a minute to go, Phil Esposito takes a desperate swipe at the puck and it gets through to Henderson (who had fallen behind the play). First shot - Tretiak save - rebound - shot - HE SCORES!! Paul “Freakin” Henderson again - an instant Canadian hero!! Absolute bedlam where I was - and across Canada. A comeback for the ages. It wasn’t Canada’s best team - or the best Canada-Russia series or games. But this was the first - and there’s never another first! To have been able to watch it - and think back - you reflect on a real exciting and lasting memory. Gord Brewerton, Vice-President and Group Publisher Prairie Newspaper Group
On September 28th, 1972, I was a fresh-faced 11 year-old attending Beaconsfield High School, in Montreal, Quebec. Classes were cancelled that day, and televisions were wheeled in to the school auditorium and cafeteria so that we, students and teachers alike, could cheer on Team Canada. Being from Montreal, I was a Habs fan through and through, and Toronto was our despised rival. Despite the hatred that my friends and I held for the enemy just six hours east on the 401, We all became Leafs fans that day, albeit for just a few short days. Reflecting on it now, I realize that my pride in Canada, and being Canadian reached its zenith that day. Henderson succeeded in uniting the country in a way never experienced before. In spite of language issues, politics, and regional differences, we cheered together as a united nation that day. Today, Canada needs another hero like Henderson. Ken Chyz: Yorkton Councillor
As you are aware, I am a die hard Blue Jays fan. I remember exactly where I was in 1992 and 1993 when the Jays won the World Series. I also know exactly where I was when Paul Henderson scored the winning goal in 1972. When the series started and Canada came out flying and scored a quick goal, I thought the series was going to be a blowout for Canada. Obviously as
the game and the series went on my thoughts certainly changed. In the fall of 1972 I was working in Hay River Northwest Territories. I made a point to watch every game. It is still one of the most exciting sports events I have ever watched. When the goal was scored, the people I was with and the house I was at went absolutely nuts. Calvin Daniels, Editor, Yorkton This Week
It is a touch mindbending to just realize the famed ’72 Summit Series happened five decades ago. That’s a half century, and that seems like such a big chunk of time. It was 12, an age I can’t say I remember with a great deal of specific clarity, but the ‘series’ is a sharp memory. To be fair the highlights have been on television through past anniversary coverage and documentaries, so that perhaps has kept the memory sharper than most from 1972, but let’s face it, as a kid growing up in Saskatchewan at the time it was a two channel TV world and hockey was a huge part of viewing. Hockey Night In Canada was a Saturday night treat watching with dad, and like youngsters across the nation I loved the show. I collected hockey cards, and Esso hockey stamps, and shot an orange ball against the barn dreaming I was in the NHL. Continued on Page A11
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SUMMIT Continued from Page A10 I wasn’t aware of the politics behind the series, wouldn’t have understood the clash of east versus west ideologies, but I knew Canada was the best at hockey and we’d win all eight games. I suppose I learned the real gut wrenching pain of defeat as the Russian team surprised a nation in the opening games. And, I learned what a hero was as Paul Henderson, a workman like player in the NHL, rose to carry a nation on his back in Moscow. When he scored ‘the goal’ to win game eight on Sept. 28, 1972, I was in class at the Centennial Junior High School in Tisdale – shop class I recall. Of course it wasn’t a day for Mr. Bourne to teach us the difference between a drill press and a press drill. It was a class sitting in front of a TV amid the apparatus of a shop, lathes, and drills and drafting tables, watching what would become the biggest sports moment I have ever watched. Since then there have been other moments, a Canadian Olympic gold, the first in 50 years from Salt Lake City in 2002, the 1989 Grey Cup – regarded as the greatest Grey Cup game ever played – when Ridgway booted a 35-yard field goal with nine
seconds left for a 43-40 Saskatchewan victory over the Hamilton TigerCats at the Sky Dome in Toronto, the Blue Jays first World Series win in 1992, the Raptors win in 2019, but none have quite had the raw emotion and lasting hair raised on the back of my neck memory as Henderson’s goal. We celebrated as a nation in 1972, and for those of us of a certain ago we still remember it keenly. Randy Goulden, Yorkton Councillor
1972! Where were you when Paul Henderson scored the winning Goal? Coming at 34-seconds remaining in game 8, the time Canadians came together in a moment of joy; my husband for the pure sport, me watching a landmark achievement of the cold war diplomacy. With the polarization of nuclear power, and the political systems, Communist East Bloc and the Democratic West,
this was a battle on and off the ice. The first game, 7 – 3 loss at the Montreal Forum. Indeed, a devastating hit to the country. Even having the team being booed. Hearing Phil Esposito pleading for understanding. This series was a battle between the best ever goalies, Tretiak and Dryden. Many years later my husband Rex had a long conversation with Ken Dryden (when at the Yorkton Film Festival as an award winning filmmaker) about the series. They talked about the strength of the USSR team, the incredible pressure on the Canadian players, Bobby Clark’s slash knocking Kharlmov out of the series in Game 6, and the series being the catalyst for an exciting new era of International hockey. And it kick-started a worldwide reshaping of hockey. During that series our work stopped, school stopped, differences of cultures, language and regions stopped. We gathered as Canadians to share a moment of joy. Where was I September 28, 1972, along with 16 million Canadians – sharing this with Rex, our children in our living room on Betts Avenue!
Mitch Hippsley, Yorkton Mayor
I can still remember the battle for hockey supremacy very well. As a teenager, I thought “How dare the Russians think they were better than we Canadians at OUR game”? It was our game and I held hockey as “definitive” Canada. My father was always at work trying to support our struggling family & had little opportunity for relaxation, but it seemed he made time to be very glued to this first ever series. It was quality time with my father to sit down and be so involved with my best friend watching beloved hockey. My older brother also used the opportunity to be so engaged with us & the series. I remember vividly how we all sat in our living room glued to a 20” colour Zenith television that we had bought from John Wytrykysh at the Eaton’s store only months ago.
Although, when I think back now, the resolution was so poor, we still thought it was incredible to see hockey in color because prior to that my family had only a cheap 20” B&W. Although, it was so great to sit and watch hockey together, we boys only spoke hockey and commented about the game as our hearts and passion for the game raced. I will never forget trailing the Russians in that game and wondering “how could we?” but deep down, just knew this was not the way it would end! When Paul Henderson put that puck into the Russian net, we boys all jumped off the couch and yelled with all the testosterone we had! Jumping up and down, we hugged each other. Immediately, we started analyzing & re-playing the goal & just how we showed our competitors that we were the best! This series I watched with my father is forever cemented in my memory as a milestone in the bond I had with him. I can still see us in that liv-
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When Henderson scored the winning goal I jumped out of my chair and my head hit the ceiling. It was an incredible moment! Impromptu parties broke out everywhere. I wound up at the Regina Curling Club and had a great time partying with people I had never met. Later that night I had to do a sportscast on CKCK television. There was only one thing to talk about: the goal, the game, and the series. Nothing else mattered. It may have been the only time a Regina sportscaster went 10 minutes in September without mentioning the Roughriders once.
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