Summit 72 is a four-part documentary series that tells the definitive story of the legendary 1972 Canada-USSR Summit Series of Hockey. Watch on CBC Gem now. For a generation of Canadians, the 1972 ...

In 1972, Canada and the USSR played an eight-game series that still lives in Canadian lore — and now, in a new four-part CBC documentary.

Team Canada was just a couple of days into its August training camp for the 1972 Summit Series when the lights went out for defenseman Brad Park , courtesy of six ounces of vulcanized rubber.

1972 Hockey Summit: 50 years ago a single goal brought Canadians together in a moment of perfect joy The hockey contest, to many, was a symbolic battle between rival political systems that had ...

Every time there's a Summit Series anniversary, hockey fans are reminded of Canada's thrilling comeback victory over the Soviet Union and Paul Henderson's where-were-you-when Game 8 winner. While ...

Roy MacGregor: 50 years after Summit Series, hockey faces a new Cold War and new reckonings First, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put a chill on plans to celebrate 1972’s Cold War contest.

Where were you in ’72? It’s an answer that anyone old enough to have watched the final game of the famous Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union can answer. Canada and the hockey ...

Sports journalist Scott Morrison has 1972: The Series that Changed Hockey Forever. American writer John U. Bacon has The Greatest Comeback: How Team Canada Fought Back, Took the Summit Series, and ...

Team Canada’s 1972 Summit Series win against the Soviet Union, during the tense Cold War era, is celebrated as a historical triumph that bolstered national pride and identity in hockey.

'Summit Series' was about more than just hockey, doc shows Until a couple of years ago, filmmaker Robbie Hart thought he knew a lot about the 1972 Summit Series that pitted the Soviet Union’s ...

Few in the hockey world would disagree. Friday is the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union.