It's funny that Phil Esposito was one of those who talked a lot about the Swedish players "stick work". If you see the whole game (and i strongly recommend it) you will see that mr Esposito knows what he is talking about, cause he does a lot of stick work of his own. I didn't realized how much his defensive skills was just slashing and hooking. th-cam.com/video/kOv2a_u-oAc/w-d-xo.html
Esposito was so full of s***. I remember a Swedish TV journalist asking him for a an interview during the World Chamionships in Vienna in 1977 whereupon the ever gracious mr. Esposito asked him if he was a Swedish reporter. When he replied that he was, he was told by mr. Eposito to go f*** himself.
Shut up Swede . The problem was your guys ( and this is natural being you guys prohibit fighting ) believed themselves unaccountable when using their sticks in the way that they often did and often still do . Welcome to real hockey where it all gets sorted out on the ice .
Canadians first time in their history has been seen , that hockey exist also out of NHL , and that europians also could play high level hockey -it was of course great surprise and shocking for them
Not quite, We brought hockey to Europe during the WW1 and WW 11. We taught them " Our Game ". They play what you call A Europian style , we call it pussy style. They are highly skilled , we slow them down, it's the way we play our game.
@@shawncavanagh401 British soldiers brought the blueprints of the game to Canada. It was invented by europeans, but organized in Canada (by europeans). Also, you're european by blood yourself. Anyway, with twice as many registrered players as Russia (and ten times more than a country like Sweden), you'd think that Canada would be more dominant than they are at the sport. Most european countries that are good at hockey lose more than half their ball sport talent pool to football yet still manage to hold their own against you, while you suck at every major sport except hockey.
Robin S Check your facts dickhead. Check the medal standings for every major hockey tournament. Start with the WJHC. HOCKEY IS CANADA 🇨🇦 CANADA IS HOCKEY 🇨🇦 All the other nations of the world kneel at our skates. Who the fuck cares about any other sport? In CANADA hockey is king & we are the KING 👑 OF KINGS !!!!
"Trainer Frosty Forristall of Boston, already had let the truth slip. "Cash bit his own tongue." Frosty said. Ted Blackman of the Montreal Gazette described, "That's what I thought at the time. Sitting with Pete Mahovlich in the stands, I had seen Cashman run at Sterner after the whistle and miss. The Swede had managed to recoil in self-protection. Cashman ended up slamming into the boards head-first and the impact rammed his teeth through his tongue."
These games weren't that bad. In the World championships in Vienna 1977, however, the canadian team embarrassed themselves. Phil Esposito became the goon he wasn't allowed to be in the NHL. A disgraceful display of violent hockey. Never seen on tv in Canada I guess.
Auston Boston; uhm no. On their way to Moscow, the Canadians stopped in Stockholm to play two preparation games against Sweden. The Swedish amateurs, who had day jobs and played hockey as a hobby, facing the world’s best paid professional players were not prepared for the goonery Canada throw at them in the first game, which Sweden lost 4-1. In the second game they knew what they could expect and managed to stand up and play a better game. They took a 3-0 lead and managed to get a draw, 4-4 against Canada. For all the propaganda spewed in this video, the Canadians were impressed and almost half this Swedish team ended up playing in the NHL and/or the WHA.
Auston Boston; No, in fact most people have never even heard of these games. But they were significant in that the North Americans noticed that Swedish players weren’t bad, and that Swedish players realized that their skills were as good as those of the NHL players. Thus roughly half this Swedish team ended up playing in the NHL and/or WHA, most notably Börje Salming, and today there are more than 100 Swedes playing in the NHL, and that number just keeps growing. The games we do celebrate are the two Olympic hockey tournament finals we’ve won, in 1994 and 2006.
I agree. Joseph Kompalla is a pathetic excuse of a referee, I hate how he keeps screwing with Team Canada. Look at those NHL referees today, they make a lot of screwjobs and pissing everybody off, they’re such blindbat bush league officials who don’t know how to make calls right.
@@princeofpop8 You mean that he shouldn't have bothered when J. P. Parisé threatened to hit his head of with the stick in the last game against the Soviets?
@@princeofpop8 He tried to follow the rules of the game. The Canadians didn't. And they won the Summit Series with scare tactics. Kompalla stopped making calls against the Canadians after Parisé went apeshit and that's why the Canadians won game 8.
@@mosesbacke2311 More like a screwjob, the Russians are obviously cheating to get Canada to lose by hiring those idiot referees with giving them too many penalties as their advantage, well jokes on them. I mean look at those referees in the NHL today, they’re far worse than they are now.
And I, as a kid in 1972, would never have believed in communism again after I saw Phil, Yvan, Bobbi, Frank, Piter, all of Team Canada actually, and especially Jean Paul Parise on the ice. Everybody in the Soviet wanted to be like them and play hockey like them. Those were the Guys who burried comunism in our hearts once and for all. We suddenly realised that if you don't wanna be a loser, you gotta play hockey like Jean Paul Parise. And no Soviet player could play hockey like him. Russians were all lukewarm losers. They blew their one in only chance in 1972. And after that I lost interest in our Soviet hockey.
He behaved like a little child, always someone else's fault. He was so afraid of the brothers Salming, especially for Börje Salming who was a much better hockey player, both technically and physically. But most fearful was he for Börje's big brother Stig, he ate him for breakfast and then spit him out.
Moses Backe Game ended 4-4 huh? Wow. I forgot that. So, Canada lost then. That’s what makes us the Greatest Hockey Nation on earth. Sweden probably still celebrating it as a National Holiday. A tie against Canada 🇨🇦 is almost as good as a victory for every country on earth that plays, or tries to play, OUR GAME
@@austonboston4361 No, Canada didn't lose, though the team should have. It was a draw, that is what 4-4 means. And no, hardly anyone in Sweden remembers this game. It has only sort of archaeological significance because so many of the Swedish players in the game later was brought over to play in the NHL and the WHA. It was the first Swedish National Team to be drained by the big professional leagues. Most famously Börje Salming (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, NHL) and Inge Hammarström (Toronto Maple Leafs, St Louis Blues, NHL). The guy who is bleeding from his face is Lars-Erik Sjöberg, best defenceman of the WHA in 1978 and captain of Winnepeg Jets who also played one season in the NHL. In the lineup is also Anders Hedberg of later fame in Winnipeg Jets Hotline with Bobby Hull and Ulf Nilsson and from 1978 in New York Rangers in NHL. Lesser known are Thommy Abrahamsson (New England Whalers, WHA, Hartford Whalers NHL) , Curt Larsson (Winnepeg Jets, WHA) and Mats Lindh (Winnepeg Jets, WHA). So the big question is: why did you canadians need all these guys if you were and still are so perfect? The only one who still pretends that he believes all that crap about canadian superiority in ice hockey is Don Cherry. Meanwhile the NHL is filled with europeans. I do really respect great canadian hockey players like Bobby Orr, Bobby Hull, Wayne Gretzky, Steve Yzerman and many others. But the nationalist bullshit is just so tiresome. By the way, the big dream for the Swedish National Team during the 70's and 80's was not to win over Canada. It was the Sovjetunion that was the great challenge. "The Big Red Machine" was almost unstoppable. The World Championships 1977 and 1987 are remembered because Sweden was better the Sovjetunion in those tournaments. But this game is not generally remembered expect by a few nerds. The games against Canada that we remembers are the 5-3 win in the World Championship in Colorado Springs 1962 and the Olympic final in 1994 that Sweden won. Peter Forsberg's shootout goal is a swedish classic. But since Canada so seldom has sent the best NHL players to det international tournaments, it's just not such a big of a deal to defeat Canada.
I remember the game and all the stickwork and spearing the Swede's used. Canadians don't kick with there skates either. They did what they had to do. You won't beat a Canadian farmboy when it counts, on the rink or in the alley
"canadian farmboy", lol. As if anyone would be shaking out of fear. You belong to a bloodline of europeans who went overseas (many of them swedish), you have the same genetics as us and you're not special in any way. Your nation happen to be good at hockey (but suck in every other major sport) because you were the first to be exposed to it when british soldiers brought the blueprints of the game overseas. Get over yourself.
Phil Esposito would never go into an alley if there were any chance that the Salming Brothers could be there. He wasn't to keen on being in the rink with them either.
That's right. I goes Gustaf "Gus" Forslund, Ottawa Senators, in 1932, Ulf Sterner (on the ice in this game) 1964 in New York Rangers, Juha Widing 1969 New York Rangers (later and mostly in Los Angeles Kings), Thommie Bergman, Detroit Red Wings 1972 and then in 1973 Börje Salming and Inge Hammarström in Toronto Maple Leafs.
Well, the best goal of the match isn't included. It's 2-2 by Tord Lundström in the beginning of the third period. Inge Hammarström skates up from the Swedish defence zone, give the puck till Lundström who passes back and skates into the slot where Hammarström gives him a perfect pass. Lundström shots - a perfect goal. Speed and skill. Check it out here, 4.10 to 4.25. th-cam.com/video/F-H4FltRJuc/w-d-xo.html
spacerazer I know. I thought it was a bit weird at first. I came to like it though as the series progressed. Now it’s weird not to see it. But, advertising on NHL uniforms? Hope that never happens, even though it looks awesome on European teams uniforms. Alas, any way a league can monetize something eventually it’ll happen.
There is no hockey nation I hate so much as the canadians. Especially Phil Esposito and even today I do not understand why any swede just smashed his head with the stick during these two games. I know I would and I played in the second division in Sweden and was a goalie during the 80s.
I was a goalie, too, but in the Canadian system of hockey. As for the European players back then, I had tremendous admiration and respect for them--Sweden, too. Actually, you Swedes played rougher like the Canadians than the others over there. That's what our players said. As for dirty Canadian play, sure we had that (and the European players were dirty, too, in their own way), but it could get out of hand. Remember, be careful of generalizing too much. We had quite a few decent, reasonably fair-play players on Team Canada like Marcel Dionne, Rod Seiling, Yvan Cournoyer, Bill White, Serge Savard, Gilbert Perreault, Dennis Hull, Paul Henderson, Ron Ellis, Tony Esposito, Ken Dryden, Brad Park, et cetera. The one I really disliked was Bobby Clarke--a thorough goon, mafioso, cheater, and coward who'd throw his own grandmother down the stairs to win. The Canadian goons in that series tried to justify their despicable play by saying it was a literal war. No, it was hockey, not a friggin' war. I was a kid back then and saw the '72 games as a way for my country to find some good competition with European teams and hopefully develop some friendships--personal and politically, too. That's how I saw it. Phil Esposito was wrong by calling it a war...especially against the Soviets. Anyway, take 'er easy, buddy. --Eric
@@3goallead oh what a bullie little sweden is, cry me a fucking river you pompous and arrogant fucking goon. Oh and 2 world championships in a row let me se any other country do that without "understanding the meaning of the word team". Sweden is along way from being the best hockey nation in the world but there is only 9 million of us.
The coach of Team Canada Harry Sinden said after the game that he would have liked to have Lars-Erik Sjöberg, Lars-Göran Nilsson, Inge Hammarström, Håkan Wickberg and Tord Lundström on his team. So all excuses and bullshit aside, the Canadians always knew that they had met a team that could match them. Tthe Swedish team hadn't trained together more than two weeks and had a brand new coach, Kjell Svensson, since Billy Harris left as Swedish coach after the World Championship that spring. It was more than a month until the Swedish league started. The Canadians started their training camp in August 13 and had then played four games against the Soviets. The Canadians were professionals, the Swedish players amateurs.
thank god the swedish players got a better treatment when they came to the NHL... why isnt this about the racism and revolting attacks all the europeans hade to endure during the 70s? instead they make a documentary about how nasty the sweds were during one series. PATHETIC
I wouldn't call it racism since canadians are europeans themselves by blood. We're virtually the same people living on different continents. However, the canadian hockey teams of the 70's etc were made up of several entitled twats like Phil Esposito (who somewhat seemed to grow out of that behaviour as he got older though) who played dirty, but couldn't handle when he got a taste of his own medicine. There were countless stories of him from the 70's mouthing off to the Salming brothers outside of the rink at international tournament when he was backed up by his teammates, but he never dared to get too close to any of them off the ice. Typical cunt behaviour.
What the hell!! Talk about twisting the truth! Canada has always played the game dirty, especially against the europeans. We swedes are tought always to be sportsmanlike and honest in every situation.
Haha, how pathetic, the narrator and Canadian players blame the Swedes and referees for everything. When, back in those days, it was in fact always the Canadians who played exremely rough and got away with almost anything when their own refs was on the ice. Canadian team got totally smashed by the Soviets in the first Summit Series games, they had no chance. Only because they delibirately injured some of the Soviet stars, Canada could come back. I’m damn sure Soviet would otherwise have won the Summit Series by 6 games to 2 or something like that. But we’ll never know….
There are some.thing, oh it is caled rules, Break them and you sit on the side, that is wye the Swedish team not beat the shit out of the canedian team.
Keith Yo Right on Keith my man!! When Canada comes to the table, better hide your women & children. We’re gonna whup ass!!! Team Canada ‘72 FOREVER!!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Kasandra Mann Ya. Sure. But girlie hockey is just that. Girly hockey. Best left to Swedes & girls. Sorry. Can’t get into it. Not when you see a slapshot from the blue line that takes 3 minutes to reach the net😂😂💋💋
when the NHL players came from a fighting culture: if you swung a stick, bet ready to drop the gloves. The Swedes needed an enforcer for those games, Canada played a different (NHL) game.
@@mosesbacke2311 why do you think that is? The Europeans used their sticks in a way we were not familiar, the refs did not call interference, so we did what we had to, to survive.
@@royroberts5925 You are talking about interferences that nobody sees but you. The Swedish Team wasn't used to stick work like Hadfields on Sjöbergs face, that's for sure. The Canadiens could easily survived by playing hockey, but chose another path. They deserved every bad review they got for it.
Canada was a discrase during these years.... still are but a bit better because they continue loooosing. How many Canadian teams are now in the finals of NHL.... zero... Esposito was a fighting looser, not much more.
Yaa wll the swedish meatballs arent much to talk about either. Esposito was a great hockey player and for making the hall of fame a true winner!! I,d take a team of Phil espositos and a tony esposito over a dried up plate of "swedish meatballs" any time.
I'm old enough to remember that game. There was two teams but only one team played ice-hockey. Canada, especially Esposito, turned out to be knuckle dragging goons. It was an utter disgrace to watch.
Darkwell0071 🤔 hmmmm Then why do all the other hockey nations try going toe to toe with us? Why? Because they know they can’t beat us unless they try to antagonize us physically. So. First we beat you up physically, then we forcefeed you some good old Canadian puck. 🤷🏻♂️Sorry. It’s tough when you realize you’ll always be at best #2. CANADA IS HOCKEY 🇨🇦
It's funny that Phil Esposito was one of those who talked a lot about the Swedish players "stick work". If you see the whole game (and i strongly recommend it) you will see that mr Esposito knows what he is talking about, cause he does a lot of stick work of his own. I didn't realized how much his defensive skills was just slashing and hooking.
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Esposito was so full of s***. I remember a Swedish TV journalist asking him for a an interview during the World Chamionships in Vienna in 1977 whereupon the ever gracious mr. Esposito asked him if he was a Swedish reporter. When he replied that he was, he was told by mr. Eposito to go f*** himself.
Shut up Swede . The problem was your guys ( and this is natural being you guys prohibit fighting ) believed themselves unaccountable when using their sticks in the way that they often did and often still do . Welcome to real hockey where it all gets sorted out on the ice .
Bohoo, poor little innocent canadians....
Hadfields 'bloody crosscheck' ? oh! you mean right after he gets speared !
You can't be serious! Karl-Johan Sundqvist hardly touches his hip and that should justify hitting the stick into Sjöbergs face?! That's just crazy.
You must be kidding, or perhaps you don't know anything about hockey 🤭
Canadians first time in their history has been seen , that hockey exist also out of NHL , and that europians also could play high level hockey -it was of course great surprise and shocking for them
Not quite,
We brought hockey to Europe during the WW1 and WW 11. We taught them " Our Game ".
They play what you call A Europian style , we call it pussy style. They are highly skilled , we slow them down, it's the way we play our game.
@@shawncavanagh401 British soldiers brought the blueprints of the game to Canada. It was invented by europeans, but organized in Canada (by europeans). Also, you're european by blood yourself.
Anyway, with twice as many registrered players as Russia (and ten times more than a country like Sweden), you'd think that Canada would be more dominant than they are at the sport. Most european countries that are good at hockey lose more than half their ball sport talent pool to football yet still manage to hold their own against you, while you suck at every major sport except hockey.
Robin S
Check your facts dickhead.
Check the medal standings for every major hockey tournament. Start with the WJHC.
HOCKEY IS CANADA 🇨🇦
CANADA IS HOCKEY 🇨🇦
All the other nations of the world kneel at our skates.
Who the fuck cares about any other sport?
In CANADA hockey is king & we are the KING 👑 OF KINGS !!!!
@@austonboston4361 how old are you, just stop
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok..."
Vic Hadfield was such a cute girlieboy!
I dont know when this documentaru was made but it sound like us or soviet propaganda during the cold war
Furthermore swded during the time was nothing like they say in this video. Why cant it just be about playing hockey insead of shit-talking eachother
A self pity outcry, so to say.
Agree. Worst i have ever heard.
Canada showed unsportsmanship
"Trainer Frosty Forristall of Boston, already had let the truth slip. "Cash bit his own tongue." Frosty said. Ted Blackman of the Montreal Gazette described, "That's what I thought at the time. Sitting with Pete Mahovlich in the stands, I had seen Cashman run at Sterner after the whistle and miss. The Swede had managed to recoil in self-protection. Cashman ended up slamming into the boards head-first and the impact rammed his teeth through his tongue."
These games weren't that bad. In the World championships in Vienna 1977, however, the canadian team embarrassed themselves. Phil Esposito became the goon he wasn't allowed to be in the NHL. A disgraceful display of violent hockey. Never seen on tv in Canada I guess.
Glenn Jonsson He was a goon since he knew he could bully Amateurs and throw them around
Glenn Jonsson
Uh huh? Ya. Sure.
Whatever.
Facts is facts. Europe threw everything they had at us in ‘72.
Who won? 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Auston Boston; uhm no.
On their way to Moscow, the Canadians stopped in Stockholm to play two preparation games against Sweden.
The Swedish amateurs, who had day jobs and played hockey as a hobby, facing the world’s best paid professional players were not prepared for the goonery Canada throw at them in the first game, which Sweden lost 4-1. In the second game they knew what they could expect and managed to stand up and play a better game. They took a 3-0 lead and managed to get a draw, 4-4 against Canada.
For all the propaganda spewed in this video, the Canadians were impressed and almost half this Swedish team ended up playing in the NHL and/or the WHA.
Per Sandström
I know. That tie game against the Canadian Gods is still celebrated as a National Holiday in Sveden.
Auston Boston; No, in fact most people have never even heard of these games. But they were significant in that the North Americans noticed that Swedish players weren’t bad, and that Swedish players realized that their skills were as good as those of the NHL players. Thus roughly half this Swedish team ended up playing in the NHL and/or WHA, most notably Börje Salming, and today there are more than 100 Swedes playing in the NHL, and that number just keeps growing.
The games we do celebrate are the two Olympic hockey tournament finals we’ve won, in 1994 and 2006.
I've heard it said by many players "We became a team after Sweden" ...reason ...the cancer named Hatfield was removed.
Canadian brutes. Complaining about the ref. Come on! You guys intimidated and bullied all the way in hockey. Please.
4:50
How about the slash by the Swedish player towards the Canadian player right before the crosscheck?
CrociatoAzzurro Canada is fucking idiots lock i never like how you try to play hockey
Forza8423
Team Canada 🇨🇦 1972!!
Awesome. Pure awesomeness in it’s most glorious gloriousness!!
Swedes on the other hand? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🍼👶🏻🍼👶🏻
Auston Boston is that you buy player from Sweden Money talks 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Forza8423
Sorry big fella.
Don’t know what you’re trying to say here.
You’re a little Confuscious me thinks🥡🥣
Auston Boston go back and sleep
Wow.. someone spears him back and he cries like a little girl scout.
Moron
The officiating was an absolute joke in these games. However, it prepared the guys for what lay ahead in Moscow.
I agree. Joseph Kompalla is a pathetic excuse of a referee, I hate how he keeps screwing with Team Canada. Look at those NHL referees today, they make a lot of screwjobs and pissing everybody off, they’re such blindbat bush league officials who don’t know how to make calls right.
@@princeofpop8 You mean that he shouldn't have bothered when J. P. Parisé threatened to hit his head of with the stick in the last game against the Soviets?
@@mosesbacke2311 That’s not what I meant. I meant he shouldn’t have kept screwing and pissing Canadians off!
@@princeofpop8 He tried to follow the rules of the game. The Canadians didn't. And they won the Summit Series with scare tactics. Kompalla stopped making calls against the Canadians after Parisé went apeshit and that's why the Canadians won game 8.
@@mosesbacke2311 More like a screwjob, the Russians are obviously cheating to get Canada to lose by hiring those idiot referees with giving them too many penalties as their advantage, well jokes on them. I mean look at those referees in the NHL today, they’re far worse than they are now.
And I, as a kid in 1972, would never have believed in communism again after I saw Phil, Yvan, Bobbi, Frank, Piter, all of Team Canada actually, and especially Jean Paul Parise on the ice. Everybody in the Soviet wanted to be like them and play hockey like them. Those were the Guys who burried comunism in our hearts once and for all. We suddenly realised that if you don't wanna be a loser, you gotta play hockey like Jean Paul Parise. And no Soviet player could play hockey like him. Russians were all lukewarm losers. They blew their one in only chance in 1972. And after that I lost interest in our Soviet hockey.
LOL this has got to be a troll
@@lukebruce5234 "Boris Becker", yeah...
I think you lost knowledge of both hockey and the Sovjets. Now one admired Canada at this time.
So you missed Soviet winning the Canada Cup final 8-1 in 1981?
Oh poor Canadians.......the european referees won't accept violence.
Espo a tough guy vs the Euros, but didnt dare do that crap in the NHL
Because they didn't allow him to be that way in the NHL
Bob Kaddy
You’re probably a pussy
Garbage Day
You’re a pusspuss too
@@austonboston4361 you're an Espo type yada yada n then run like hell sort of Hero.
He behaved like a little child, always someone else's fault. He was so afraid of the brothers Salming, especially for Börje Salming who was a much better hockey player, both technically and physically. But most fearful was he for Börje's big brother Stig, he ate him for breakfast and then spit him out.
The word is that the brothers took him in an elevator at a hotel and beat the shit out of him.
....and yet, somehow, Team Canada 🇨🇦 still emerged victorious!
It’s Canada’s game👍🏻
@@austonboston4361 Since when is 4-4 a victory?
Moses Backe
Game ended 4-4 huh?
Wow. I forgot that.
So, Canada lost then.
That’s what makes us the Greatest Hockey Nation on earth. Sweden probably still celebrating it as a National Holiday.
A tie against Canada 🇨🇦 is almost as good as a victory for every country on earth that plays, or tries to play, OUR GAME
@@austonboston4361 No, Canada didn't lose, though the team should have. It was a draw, that is what 4-4 means. And no, hardly anyone in Sweden remembers this game. It has only sort of archaeological significance because so many of the Swedish players in the game later was brought over to play in the NHL and the WHA. It was the first Swedish National Team to be drained by the big professional leagues.
Most famously Börje Salming (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, NHL) and Inge Hammarström (Toronto Maple Leafs, St Louis Blues, NHL). The guy who is bleeding from his face is Lars-Erik Sjöberg, best defenceman of the WHA in 1978 and captain of Winnepeg Jets who also played one season in the NHL. In the lineup is also Anders Hedberg of later fame in Winnipeg Jets Hotline with Bobby Hull and Ulf Nilsson and from 1978 in New York Rangers in NHL. Lesser known are Thommy Abrahamsson (New England Whalers, WHA, Hartford Whalers NHL) , Curt Larsson (Winnepeg Jets, WHA) and Mats Lindh (Winnepeg Jets, WHA).
So the big question is: why did you canadians need all these guys if you were and still are so perfect? The only one who still pretends that he believes all that crap about canadian superiority in ice hockey is Don Cherry. Meanwhile the NHL is filled with europeans.
I do really respect great canadian hockey players like Bobby Orr, Bobby Hull, Wayne Gretzky, Steve Yzerman and many others.
But the nationalist bullshit is just so tiresome.
By the way, the big dream for the Swedish National Team during the 70's and 80's was not to win over Canada. It was the Sovjetunion that was the great challenge. "The Big Red Machine" was almost unstoppable. The World Championships 1977 and 1987 are remembered because Sweden was better the Sovjetunion in those tournaments. But this game is not generally remembered expect by a few nerds.
The games against Canada that we remembers are the 5-3 win in the World Championship in Colorado Springs 1962 and the Olympic final in 1994 that Sweden won. Peter Forsberg's shootout goal is a swedish classic.
But since Canada so seldom has sent the best NHL players to det international tournaments, it's just not such a big of a deal to defeat Canada.
I remember the game and all the stickwork and spearing the Swede's used. Canadians don't kick with there skates either. They did what they had to do. You won't beat a Canadian farmboy when it counts, on the rink or in the alley
"canadian farmboy", lol. As if anyone would be shaking out of fear. You belong to a bloodline of europeans who went overseas (many of them swedish), you have the same genetics as us and you're not special in any way. Your nation happen to be good at hockey (but suck in every other major sport) because you were the first to be exposed to it when british soldiers brought the blueprints of the game overseas. Get over yourself.
Robin S
Yer gay
Phil Esposito would never go into an alley if there were any chance that the Salming Brothers could be there. He wasn't to keen on being in the rink with them either.
Wow, this commentary is hilarious! Canadien '70s clowns with Norm MacDonald level narration. Luv it!
Wrong, they (Salming and Hammarström) are not the first Swedish players in the NHL.
That's right. I goes Gustaf "Gus" Forslund, Ottawa Senators, in 1932, Ulf Sterner (on the ice in this game) 1964 in New York Rangers, Juha Widing 1969 New York Rangers (later and mostly in Los Angeles Kings), Thommie Bergman, Detroit Red Wings 1972 and then in 1973 Börje Salming and Inge Hammarström in Toronto Maple Leafs.
@@mosesbacke2311. Correct, although I didn't know about Gustav.
The Goonies.
The Canadian goal from 3:10 to 3:20 is ballet -- a physicality of mastery and genius
Fnu Lnu
BIG PLAY 🇨🇦
BIG GOAL 🇨🇦🚨
CANADIAN AWESOMENESS IN ALL ITS GLORIOUSNESS🇨🇦
PHEWW👍🏻🤘🏻☝🏻
Well, the best goal of the match isn't included. It's 2-2 by Tord Lundström in the beginning of the third period. Inge Hammarström skates up from the Swedish defence zone, give the puck till Lundström who passes back and skates into the slot where Hammarström gives him a perfect pass. Lundström shots - a perfect goal. Speed and skill. Check it out here, 4.10 to 4.25.
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The future of hockey was on the boards,
spacerazer
I know. I thought it was a bit weird at first. I came to like it though as the series progressed. Now it’s weird not to see it.
But, advertising on NHL uniforms? Hope that never happens, even though it looks awesome on European teams uniforms. Alas, any way a league can monetize something eventually it’ll happen.
There is no hockey nation I hate so much as the canadians. Especially Phil Esposito and even today I do not understand why any swede just smashed his head with the stick during these two games. I know I would and I played in the second division in Sweden and was a goalie during the 80s.
I was a goalie, too, but in the Canadian system of hockey. As for the European players back then, I had tremendous admiration and respect for them--Sweden, too. Actually, you Swedes played rougher like the Canadians than the others over there. That's what our players said. As for dirty Canadian play, sure we had that (and the European players were dirty, too, in their own way), but it could get out of hand. Remember, be careful of generalizing too much. We had quite a few decent, reasonably fair-play players on Team Canada like Marcel Dionne, Rod Seiling, Yvan Cournoyer, Bill White, Serge Savard, Gilbert Perreault, Dennis Hull, Paul Henderson, Ron Ellis, Tony Esposito, Ken Dryden, Brad Park, et cetera. The one I really disliked was Bobby Clarke--a thorough goon, mafioso, cheater, and coward who'd throw his own grandmother down the stairs to win. The Canadian goons in that series tried to justify their despicable play by saying it was a literal war. No, it was hockey, not a friggin' war. I was a kid back then and saw the '72 games as a way for my country to find some good competition with European teams and hopefully develop some friendships--personal and politically, too. That's how I saw it. Phil Esposito was wrong by calling it a war...especially against the Soviets. Anyway, take 'er easy, buddy. --Eric
You wouldn't have done shit, you internet gangsta. You're all talk...NOTHING more.
Leif Bengtsson you hate them because they are simply the best, and have the most drive and passion to win no matter the cost
Leif Bengtsson They didn't smash his head with a stick because Swedish are raised by feminist ball busters and they were too self conscious.
@@3goallead oh what a bullie little sweden is, cry me a fucking river you pompous and arrogant fucking goon. Oh and 2 world championships in a row let me se any other country do that without "understanding the meaning of the word team". Sweden is along way from being the best hockey nation in the world but there is only 9 million of us.
Welcome to how hockey is played in Canada.....beauty!
The coach of Team Canada Harry Sinden said after the game that he would have liked to have Lars-Erik Sjöberg, Lars-Göran Nilsson, Inge Hammarström, Håkan Wickberg and Tord Lundström on his team. So all excuses and bullshit aside, the Canadians always knew that they had met a team that could match them.
Tthe Swedish team hadn't trained together more than two weeks and had a brand new coach, Kjell Svensson, since Billy Harris left as Swedish coach after the World Championship that spring. It was more than a month until the Swedish league started.
The Canadians started their training camp in August 13 and had then played four games against the Soviets.
The Canadians were professionals, the Swedish players amateurs.
you're full of shit!! The Sweds were professionals!!
Canada ❤️🤍
thank god the swedish players got a better treatment when they came to the NHL... why isnt this about the racism and revolting attacks all the europeans hade to endure during the 70s? instead they make a documentary about how nasty the sweds were during one series. PATHETIC
When two white teams are playing each other what exactly is the racism? You sound like one of those black lives matters idiots
Brent Fralic you’re both stupid
I wouldn't call it racism since canadians are europeans themselves by blood. We're virtually the same people living on different continents. However, the canadian hockey teams of the 70's etc were made up of several entitled twats like Phil Esposito (who somewhat seemed to grow out of that behaviour as he got older though) who played dirty, but couldn't handle when he got a taste of his own medicine. There were countless stories of him from the 70's mouthing off to the Salming brothers outside of the rink at international tournament when he was backed up by his teammates, but he never dared to get too close to any of them off the ice. Typical cunt behaviour.
floyd
Whatever pink
Suck it up Sweden
123 Blake’s lol fuck off you hahe swedes on your team
I wonder if Börje ever regretted spending his NHL career on the shitty Leafs.
What the hell!! Talk about twisting the truth! Canada has always played the game dirty, especially against the europeans. We swedes are tought always to be sportsmanlike and honest in every situation.
Ehhhh, somewhat biased comments...? 🤣🤣🤣
Haha, how pathetic, the narrator and Canadian players blame the Swedes and referees for everything. When, back in those days, it was in fact always the Canadians who played exremely rough and got away with almost anything when their own refs was on the ice. Canadian team got totally smashed by the Soviets in the first Summit Series games, they had no chance. Only because they delibirately injured some of the Soviet stars, Canada could come back. I’m damn sure Soviet would otherwise have won the Summit Series by 6 games to 2 or something like that. But we’ll never know….
There are some.thing, oh it is caled rules, Break them and you sit on the side, that is wye the Swedish team not beat the shit out of the canedian team.
Mats Johansson
Naaaaah, not that way at all there Mats buddy.
All the good ole Canuck boys just took it off against the Chicken 🐓 Swedes
@@austonboston4361 Avery is that you?:)
Real hockey.... go Canada
Keith Yo lmao bad hockey
Keith Yo
Right on Keith my man!!
When Canada comes to the table, better hide your women & children. We’re gonna whup ass!!!
Team Canada ‘72 FOREVER!!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
You would not recognise real hockey if it bit you in the ass 🤥
Disgraceful.
Discusting by Canada, cheap shot and dirty plays and then say that swedes played dirty. Ha ha
"..buhu.." "..everyone made us look bad.." "We were the good ones" Yeah, right. Pathetic.
Ice surface too large for slow, fat, sweaty Esposito
Don Majestic
I dunno. Espo sure looked great in Moscow
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Drop your gloves and fight if you don't like Canadian hockey LADIES
I prefer hockey instead of slugging ...
I think you missed the point...
Hey Christina!
You're not all that ladylike, though. Just saying. 😘
Well, why all the Europeans in the NHL, Butch?
Canada is a shame for Icehockey !
typical Canada propaganda just like when they play the US women's team
Ha Ha Ha just like the American national ladies soccer team when they lost in the world cup ...your goalkeeper was the biggest crybaby
Kasandra Mann
Ya. Sure. But girlie hockey is just that. Girly hockey. Best left to Swedes & girls. Sorry. Can’t get into it. Not when you see a slapshot from the blue line that takes 3 minutes to reach the net😂😂💋💋
when the NHL players came from a fighting culture: if you swung a stick, bet ready to drop the gloves. The Swedes needed an enforcer for those games, Canada played a different (NHL) game.
No. That's the point, the did a lot of shit they wouldn't have dared in the NHL.
@@mosesbacke2311 why do you think that is? The Europeans used their sticks in a way we were not familiar, the refs did not call interference, so we did what we had to, to survive.
@@royroberts5925 You are talking about interferences that nobody sees but you. The Swedish Team wasn't used to stick work like Hadfields on Sjöbergs face, that's for sure. The Canadiens could easily survived by playing hockey, but chose another path. They deserved every bad review they got for it.
"Canada's ambassadors for hockey are goons". Exactly.
why worry about what a bunch of over paid snobs think..re ambassadors say...they never played nhl hockey and neither have you comrade!
jealous commie??
vadim yermolayev
Awwww
This ain’t a game for sissy boys.
@@austonboston4361 go fuck yourself, cap))
Уроды всегда будут уродами )
Canada was a discrase during these years.... still are but a bit better because they continue loooosing. How many Canadian teams are now in the finals of NHL.... zero... Esposito was a fighting looser, not much more.
Yaa wll the swedish meatballs arent much to talk about either. Esposito was a great hockey player and for making the hall of fame a true winner!! I,d take a team of Phil espositos and a tony esposito over a dried up plate of "swedish meatballs" any time.
Anders Hansen
Fun fact
Almost half the NHL is comprised of Canadian born players and, some actually play on teams in the USA.
better question is how many canadians, on the winning teams??? name the 5 best players in the NHL, wonder how many are canadian?? huh?
Canadians were all hung over .
I'm old enough to remember that game. There was two teams but only one team played ice-hockey. Canada, especially Esposito, turned out to be knuckle dragging goons. It was an utter disgrace to watch.
Eric The Red
Sissy boys like Swedes don’t know how to play a man’s game.
That's what people were saying about your mother .
@@Joerotty Still she be too good for you.
@@austonboston4361 You were saying? th-cam.com/video/PW7KmRutWGM/w-d-xo.html
@@ericthered4632 .. She wasn't good back then , I doubt she is now.
Rotten team
Janne P
Ya. Those Swedes.
Take the goon out of hockey and Canada would not win another game.
Sweden spearing is not goon activity eh? Fuck off
Darkwell0071
🤔 hmmmm
Then why do all the other hockey nations try going toe to toe with us?
Why? Because they know they can’t beat us unless they try to antagonize us physically.
So. First we beat you up physically, then we forcefeed you some good old Canadian puck.
🤷🏻♂️Sorry. It’s tough when you realize you’ll always be at best #2.
CANADA IS HOCKEY 🇨🇦
@@TR-vr5pz spearing. Check out Kent- Erik Andersson Exit 1977 wc.