A gift book in a leather cover "Hockey" in a box
The USSR national team arrived in Canada on August 30. The first match of the super series took place on September 2, 1972 in Montreal (Canada). The first game of the series was watched by several million people in Europe, more than twenty-five million Canadians and Americans, and about one hundred million television viewers in the Soviet Union watched the game at home. In the USSR, due to the time difference (it was 4 a.m. in Moscow at the time of the start of the game), the game was shown only in the evening on September 3. The ice masters lost to the Soviet hockey players with a score of 3:7!
"We don't need such hockey!" — this phrase became famous after the hockey match between the USSR and Canada national team, which took place on September 28, 1972. The TV report was conducted by the famous commentator Nikolai Ozerov. Ozerov's exclamation was provoked by the incredibly rude game of the Canadians, rivals of the Soviet hockey players, who, losing in professionalism, began to arrange scuffles on the ice. This Ozerov reportage was watched, without exaggeration, by all progressive humanity.
- Country of manufacture:
- Russia
- Material:
- skin
- Sizes:
- 33 × 6 cm.
- Weight:
- 2.5 kg.