It was 35 years ago today, Paul Henderson put that rebound away
Friday, 28 September 2007
Today marks the 35th anniversary of Game Eight of the 1972 Summit Series, where Paul Henderson scored with 34 seconds left to give Canada a 6-5 victory and the final edge over the USSR in this most seminal of international hockey series.
Joe Pelletier, the mastermind behind 1972SummitSeries.com, has assembled some special coverage to mark the anniversary, including essays on Canadian national team jerseys and those of the Soviets, plus broader social commentary on how the Summit Series may have impacted on the political prospects of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev.
Well worth checking out.
HockeyAdventure.com archives the best of Lucas Aykroyd's hockey articles through 2010. Based in Vancouver, Aykroyd has written about NHL, international, and junior hockey for The Hockey News, The Sporting News, the NHL Yearbook, Rinkside, NHL.com, Eishockey News, and Prospects Hockey. As an editor and journalist, he has covered three Olympics, 14 World Championships, five World Junior Championships, one World Women's Championship, and one World U18 Championship for IIHF.com and HockeyCanada.ca. He was one of 56 experts chosen to vote for the IIHF's Centennial All-Star Team.
