The four Flyers hits on the russians in under one minute that made the russians leave the ice in protest. Ed Van Impe's hit is my favourite of all time!
You are totally right. I watched this game on tv. at the end the american announcer was in the locker room desperately trying to find an american player (so there could be a sound bite on the news, I guess) and not finding one of them. He asked each player "did you do this for America" and each said "Hell no, I did it for Canada!" and he kept getting more and more annoyed. What a hoot!
I was at this game. The soviets were shell shocked. The Flyers were at the top of their game after winning consecutive cups. In the stands we were like "WTF ??" when they left the ice. Still have the original program and ticket.
@@Internetbutthurt Hockey is so fast and hard hitting that tempers arise. Every team has a tough guy to come to the aid of a star player, not so much as years gone by but still. It's also a phsycological game where if a player is nervous of retaliation his play is off. Players are on the lookout for an opposing player to get a pass when their head is down. Players are tough and that won't change.
Yes if you listen to the interview with Flyers Coach Fred Shero before the game he said that he would rather die if he lost this game. Shows you how much winning this game meant to him. The Flyers would not be denied.
Those players were more scared of their coaches and regime than of the Flyers. They were basically slaves. That documentary on the Russian 5 is amazing.
"You could be the Broad Street Bullies, you could be the Giobolino Bullies. If you don't have the talent, you're not going to win. PERIOD! And they had the talent!" -Phil Esposito
As Tretiak said - '' After we came back to ice after retirement , no one from us has no desire to play , no one from us did not wanted to continue this game . We were simply serving the time . Each one from us could be dirtly slashed by stick , dirtly slammed by fist or by elbow , could be dirtly hooked for stomach or for neck , could be dirtly kicked by skate's blade . Is all that calling sport - it is not attached to sport by anyway '' .
А потом этому истеричке Локтеву комуняки популярно объяснили, что из-за его капризов они неустойку платить не будут. Так что все как миленькие вынуждены были играть. Хотят они этого или нет! Хоккей не для позорных ссыкух!
I'm a lifelong Bruins fan, but on this day I was a Flyers fan. In addition and fyi. Bobby Clarke was well repected in Boston. We loved and admired his hustle. He tireless and a great hockey player. Tremendous leader.
THANK YOU John am a big FLYERS fan being from Philly. I was 17 years old when they killed the Russians. And BOBBY CLARK WAS THE HARDEST WORKING PLAYER IN ANY SPORT HARD TO BELIEVE HE HAD DIABETES. BE
@Jiltedin2007 Yep, I remember this game well. The Habs showed we still knew how to skate with the Russians, and the Flyers showed that Canadians still know how to fight!
The Red Army team could out skate and out play any NHL team but they couldn't take the hits. They weren't used to playing like that. Was great to see these guys with the different styles of play. Also at the time the NHL players didn't wear helmets and all the Russians did. Everyone thought they were pussies because of that. Great stuff.
The Canadians were the toughest and still are the toughest, they are more complete athlete than the Russian, however you do have Russian who know how to hit like Ovechkin.
Sure they were. Most of this USSR team played in the 72 summit series which was just as physical. The flyers were the only team to beat the soviets this year. Montreal tied them.
@@Shindler39 твои "совершенные" в 1979 пролетели - 6:0! А супер команда Боумана 1981 упала ещё ниже - 8:1!!! Я уж молчу про первые две игры этой серии с Бостоном и Рейнджерс. Просто тот хоккей в который тогда чудили в НХЛ и игрой назвать нельзя. Рубка клюшками, наркоманские разборки, беганье по трибунам за зрителями... Недаром, сегодня за такое, уже в низших лигах гонят куда подальше. Так что нечего путать игру в хоккей и быдлячество с гопатой.
Actually this was one of the cleaner games played by the Flyers and most of the body checks were clean. The Red Army were far better, but the Flyers actually legitimately beat them. They kept the puck in the Russian zone most of the game and badly outshot them. But I'm a Red Army fan don't get me wrong, which is even more reason to see it objvectively.
I those days the Russians weren't used to a physical game. These days it's different. I the earliest days of European hockey you couldn't body check in the offensive zone!
woolhat That's the Cyrillic СССР which is SSSR literally in English characters, better known as the USSR, the Union (Союз) of Soviet Socialist Republics. Idiot.
There was an episode of The Simpsons, where the devil (depicted as Ned Flanders) showcases the jury of the damned. Among the jurors were the starting line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers, which the Simpsons feared them the most. Back in the 70s, the Flyers were notorious for their aggressive style of play, which earned them the nickname, "the Broad Street Bullies".
The Flyers were full of talent and could kick some serious ass. The games with the Rangers and Bruins were awesome and had some of the highest penalty minute games ever. The superstars of that era had to fight just like everybody else not the wusses of today who have body guards.
#7's second hit against the boards is Hockey, and definatly my favorite hit within the minute. I love skill and speed and respect it but you have to be fast tough and ruthless, you have to be all the above to play this sport against. Today's not like that at all too bad.
Thank you for uploading this. I have always thought this is the greatest minute of physical hockey ever played and I am happy to have a place to watch this without loading up my DVD and trying to find the correct time. My favorite quote is from Ed Van Impe talking about the hit on Kharlamov and he said, "I left the pentalty box and was skating accross the ice, when all the sudden Kharlamov decided to hit his chin into my elbow. There was nothing I could do."
Fan of a rival team in the NHL, but actually enjoyed the physical play here as it was North American hockey. I think I saw a documentary where Ed Snider said that "if the Soviets forfeit the game, they would not get paid, and then they came back onto the ice." Let's not forget the Soviets bullied people for years on end and for the most part, beating national teams that didn't have a full complement of elite players, exception being Canada Cup games.
For decades international rules forbid 'professional' players from playing. Meaning, no NHLers but USSR could play whoever they wanted. So it was like amateur guys like me playing against Ovechkin and Malkin. Who do you think is going to win?
Im 62yrs old and i remember this.....it was brutal...the Russians left the ice....no words to express this....the Flyers killed them in this game.....This is our Canadian Game.....Dont fuck with us.
@@crimzon1095 for sure it's part of the game, but not like this, going on ice in purpose of beating other players more than concentrate on game, this is night club beating not hockey game, and stop writing bull shit, watch closely what going on
+Michael DiSciullo - Every pass was a suicide pass, & not only in that game, in any game they played against lower skilled(at that time), players from N/America.
Except. . . The Flyers' best players were as skilled or more. Bobby Clarke was a better center than any of them (he tallied more than one assist per game that NHL season), and Barber and Leach would have been top-line guys on any Soviet team of the '70s. Parent and Tretiak were probably two of the top three goalies in the world at the time, too.
Michael DiSciullo smartest comment yet on this, I played 30 yrs big time hockey flyers goons?! Wat a joke check out the point standings score sheets and stats from the bullies those years and then try to say the same thing, I watched that game live every LOV on that great team had their heart taken then not too long after our college kids beat them, thanks for the comment wide open hockey like that against North American doesn't work with your head down, guy hung him out to dry wit pass and he paid for it stop crying
@@dexterwallace8831 No, it wasn't. The Flyers were the best hockey team in the world at the time. And the referee that night was a Soviet. That's just silly. The second-best team in the league were the Canadiens, and they skated to a 3-3 tie with HC CSKA Moscow (who didn't even win their domestic league that year, one of only two times they didn't for a 20-year span). The Soviets had a great system, and the North American teams learned from it. Most of their players were inferior talents to the best NHL players, though.
That has always made me laugh how the Flyers didn’t wear helmets but the Soviet team did lol. It’s funny how macho the Canadian players were when they played hockey and they didn’t wear helmets lol. It’s crazy to think they didn’t wear helmets back then, but even up until the early 90s you would see one guy on a team not wearing a helmet lol.
VanityConcubine Наказать американских хулиганов должны в первую очередь арбитры, а потом уж советские хоккеисты. Бандиты не должны играть в хоккей, а должны сидеть в тюрьме.
Usually known their meticulous preparation and adjustments, this had to be one of IF NOT THE WORST job of coaching by the Soviets during the Red Army era thinking that the Flyers weren't going to play the same hockey that won them two straight Stanley Cups and got them to a third despite injuries to key players. If that wasn't enough, the bad blood between the squads from the 1972 Summit series AND having Bobby Clarke and Valeri Kharmalov on the same ice? Even at ten years old when I was an ice hockey goaltender (and a Flyers fan since Bernie Parent was my boyhood idol) and was starting to learn a bit about the Red Army teams I said to my dad "What did the Russians expect?"
+SonyT250 Mad troll level achieved. You DO realize that in modern hockey the skating speed and the overall speed of the game is like 10 times faster than during those days? You also realize some basic level of physics. If both skaters are skating as fast as modern day and every one would be hitting with crosschecks or elbows to the head we would see massive amount of injuries and concussions and most likely deaths. Example a car crash at 10mph and a car crash at 40mph.
+JackTheNoober What part of "these were all legal hits in 1976" don't you understand? At one time in the NFL you used to be able to tackle players by grabbing their face masks and it was legal. You could impede receivers all the way down the field and not be penalized--so those things happened until they changed the rules. You can't retroactively apply 2016 rules to 1976. Got it yet? (By the way I have no interest in UFC. I think it's barbaric.) You really do need to clean up your language. It's very offensive and not suitable for public debates..
Lava1964 you stupid fuck it has always been illegal to hit your opponent with your elbow from behind, that russian pkayer wasnt even involved in the gameplay, he didnt have the puck and got assaulted from behind (pause). That is a clear penalty no matter if 1950, 1976 or 2016.
+Krayzie Nigga I see you appear to be biologically incapable of debating anything without resorting to vulgarities. Why do you do that? As sad as that is, have you ever watched any NHL games from the early and mid-1970s? I doubt it. That kind of stuff went on all the time without penalties being called. ( You'll notice that my initial comment has gotten six thumbs-up from hockey fans who accurately remember those days.) You might want to research what I'm telling you, but I doubt that you will make the effort. I'll help you out: The Canadian Press correspondent who covered this particular game couldn't understand what the Red Army team was complaining about because he reported it was a "tame game" by Philadelphia's standards in 1976. Look at the Sports Illustrated coverage of Super Series '76 and it says virtually the same thing. It's available online if you have the courage to seek the truth.
The Red Army players had a reputation of spitting on opposing players and slashing when the ref wasn't looking . .they were just a dirty as the Flyers.
well that's exactly what the flyers of the 70's could do! they could skate, pass, shoot and goaltend AND beat the shit out of everyone :-D that's why they were so succesful, a lot of people choose to JUST look at the violence but they had talent and dicipline too
This happened during the Cold War folks. They weren’t acting like that because the soviets were better, they were acting like that because they fucking hated them. Some of the flyer players played during the Canada-soviet matches in 1972. And the soviets got destroyed 😂. It was just hate that drove them to act like goons, not because they thought the soviets were better.
if anyone got destroyed during that '72 series that would be Canada PRO team that got owned the very first game, on home ice and that journalist who ate his article in newspaper where he said that is Soviets will will, he will eat his newspaper page :D
Soviets got destroyed? What were you watching? Soviets outscored the Canadians IIRC and only won because of goonery, biased refs and breaking Kharlamovs ankle in game 4 or 5 - a guy who literally skated through the entire Canadian team and scored. Canadians scored in the dying seconds to win the series. It was very lucky. Canadians knew they (Soviets) were better but they wanted to win at any cost; Esposito said as much. Zero honor.
kharlamov is one of the strongest players i know he broke his leg in a car crash and still went against canada when he broke his leg and continued the game
Помню я этот матч..Мальчишкой ещё смотрел его...Как отличался наш хоккей того времени от сегодняшнего...Сейчас драки в хоккее норма...Изменилась жизнь...изменилось всё...а жаль.
При Тарасов в сборной было силовое звено Мишаков, Ионов, Моисеев, которое играло в канадском стиле, он же ввёл на тренировках бокс, но его ушли с должности и все заглохло, канадцы наших тогда били безбожно, а наши отвечали редко, все изменилось, тот хоккей ушёл в небытие у нас, но перешёл в Канаду, они взяли из него лучшее.
I am a huge Russian hockey fan, they were my favorite of all time, especially Tretiak, Krutov, Makarov, and Kapustin. BUT, I will say the Flyers were rough but not dirty this game. This was one of their cleaner games. They actually played some good hockey here and I thought they badly outplayed the Russian team. Don't get me wrong, the Red Army would win 3 or 4 out of 5, but this one belonged to the Flyers. Their checks were hard but clean. USSR just wasn't ready for it.
The Flyers had a lot of skill. Three of those guys are in the Hall of Fame. So is the coach, G.M. & owner..... I could make a case for three more players to be in.
Another exhibition super series in December would work, I can't see this happening after the intensity of a Stanley Cup Final and winning the ultimate prize in hockey.The appetite for NHL players association to agree to then go and play basically an exhibition against the Russian league champs would be nill, mainly because the Russian league has a much easier schedule and I think finishes much earlier than the NHL season. Another thing is that all the best Russian players now play in the NHL.
Yea so the americans wouldn'd be watching the game like then... If hockey got more popular in the US it's because the eliminated those dirty cheap shots.
Lmao, should it have? a lot of the changes have made it a better game, and a lot of them are inspired by players not wanting to get beat up for an hour every time they go to work.
@@encycl07pedia- Историю не знаешь,если б не руководство СССР,подчинявшееся вашингтонскому обкому,кстати захватившему власть в России в 1917 году,то привезли б немного другую команду и дали им там по рогам за подобный беспредел.А не угрожали игрокам,что отвечать нельзя,а то заграницу не поедете и со спортом вообще распрощаетесь.И вообще,если б не мировое правление моисеевой секты,этих противостояний в такой форме просто не было,только такая секта могла делать такую идеологическую накачку,деля весь мир на капитолистов,коммунистов,христиан и т.д..
I was 8 years old at that game with my father. I still have the ticket stubs. What an experience!
And that's why they're in the Jury of the Damned.
Nice. Simpsons reference.
that's what brought me here
Jakub Hanus It was even better to be in the Philadelphia area and live through it.
clownnookie Do you mean during the game, or, the fact of surviving being in Philadelphia?
Robert De Brus Yes I would agree, & more,...something like the "Chainsaw Massacre"
I am here for The Simpson
Me too😂😂😂
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Yes
dito👍
@@radolfbo3336 Pro 7 Mexx?
You are totally right. I watched this game on tv. at the end the american announcer was in the locker room desperately trying to find an american player (so there could be a sound bite on the news, I guess) and not finding one of them. He asked each player "did you do this for America" and each said "Hell no, I did it for Canada!" and he kept getting more and more annoyed. What a hoot!
I was at this game. The soviets were shell shocked. The Flyers were at the top of their game after winning consecutive cups. In the stands we were like "WTF ??" when they left the ice. Still have the original program and ticket.
I was there as well what a crazy game I wonder if there's video of the entire game
@@kneeman66 don't know if it is the whole game th-cam.com/video/lWTf79leL9E/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=HockeyHistoryArchive%28byfans%2Cforfans%29
Every game was mayhem with the Flyers in those days. The most entertaining era of hockey.
Unless they were playing the Isles. That’s when Schultz would try to joke with Gillies.
Those were the best days.
it's more like a fight in the gateway than hockey
no it wasnt. It showed how primitive the North american game was
@@Internetbutthurt Hockey is so fast and hard hitting that tempers arise. Every team has a tough guy to come to the aid of a star player, not so much as years gone by but still. It's also a phsycological game where if a player is nervous of retaliation his play is off. Players are on the lookout for an opposing player to get a pass when their head is down. Players are tough and that won't change.
Yes if you listen to the interview with Flyers Coach Fred Shero before the game he said that he would rather die if he lost this game. Shows you how much winning this game meant to him. The Flyers would not be denied.
That’s awesome, they didn’t make coaches like that 13 years ago, maybe Lindy ruff, especially not today
Like how none of the Flyers, save only the goalie, are wearing helmets.
DuPont was wearing his helmet. Look at 0:25 of the video.
Orest Kindrachuk and Bill Clement also wore helmets on that team.
No brain idiots
Didn't need one
Alot of NHL players went without a helmet back then
The Simpsons brought me here.
same
Same
All of you can go back to cartoon land then.
what episode?
Me5
Soviets must've been like, "WTF!!! I thought we were here for a friendly exhibition hockey game"
Those players were more scared of their coaches and regime than of the Flyers. They were basically slaves. That documentary on the Russian 5 is amazing.
Friendly, my ass! The Soviets acted tough while steamrolling the amateur hockey players they went up against...
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Idiot
That's what Apollo Creed thought in Rocky 4
Hokey? I thought that was unlicensed boxing/wrestling.
People seem to hate on the Flyers but fail to realize this team won 2 championships. They were bullies but the skill was there too.
Not even a Philly fan but 100% Gotta give respect when its due
@B3ars IV Only 2, LOL, Sydney Crosby by himself has more cups.
They were dirty back stabbing cowards who should have had game misconducts handed out for everytime they blindsided the Ruskies.
@@kanyevil127 Crosby did it by being a bitch though. There's a huge difference.
@Brian Neary someone's salty
There will never be a team like the broad street bullies ever again! Long live the bullies
"He ran into my elbow with his chin"- Ed Van Impe.
My father was there at that game, O to have been there in those days, the flyers made hockey what it was back then.
Nope .. they made hockey looked like a garage league.
You’re an idiot.
There would have been a dozen penalties called in the first minute alone today! The good old days. Gone forever.
The refs were on Canadas side or the NHL, they let the Flyers do what ever they wanted.
"You could be the Broad Street Bullies, you could be the Giobolino Bullies. If you don't have the talent, you're not going to win. PERIOD! And they had the talent!"
-Phil Esposito
OMG I remember watching this game and LMAO. Great memories.
Brad Park said about Flyers playing : "If it' s the only possible way to victory - so I ' m do not need such a victory ! "
As Tretiak said - '' After we came back to ice after retirement , no one from us has no desire to play , no one from us did not wanted to continue this game . We were simply serving the time . Each one from us could be dirtly slashed by stick , dirtly slammed by fist or by elbow , could be dirtly hooked for stomach or for neck , could be dirtly kicked by skate's blade . Is all that calling sport - it is not attached to sport by anyway '' .
The Soviet coach in this game said the words that became catch phrase in the USSR, and then in Russia: "We do not need such hockey!"
А потом этому истеричке Локтеву комуняки популярно объяснили, что из-за его капризов они неустойку платить не будут. Так что все как миленькие вынуждены были играть. Хотят они этого или нет! Хоккей не для позорных ссыкух!
@@user-hv1bh4wj8u Маня, иди подмойся. Ссыкуха тут только ты.
@@user-ey7sh1ms5j Отлезь, убогая обиженка!
Эти слова произнёс не тренер , а комментатор Н.Н Озеров - знатоки нашлись понимаете ли 🙉🙉🙉
@@vsheverev38 Причём он это в 1972 году истерил.
The broad street bullies. Soviets can't take it
Barbara McIlvaine those were ugly times in hockey history
Barb.............. You're an idiot.
Eric Copp those were the best times
Raabert Ellis fuck yeah
@@MegaCokamo why do you think they were commies?
And this is why they earned the nickname..."The Broad Street Bullies".....and Bobby Clarke was the Devils Advocate every night...🥊
Rushes guys from behind , announcer: I don't see anything wrong with that lol
I'm a lifelong Bruins fan, but on this day I was a Flyers fan. In addition and fyi. Bobby Clarke was well repected in Boston. We loved and admired his hustle. He tireless and a great hockey player. Tremendous leader.
THANK YOU John am a big FLYERS fan being from Philly. I was 17 years old when they killed the Russians. And BOBBY CLARK WAS THE HARDEST WORKING PLAYER IN ANY SPORT HARD TO BELIEVE HE HAD DIABETES. BE
Bobby Clarke indeed a great player
But also a dirty player and an outright cheater
@Jiltedin2007 Yep, I remember this game well. The Habs showed we still knew how to skate with the Russians, and the Flyers showed that Canadians still know how to fight!
I could never stop watching this video!
the Russian player should have been thrown out for the dirty hit. he deliberately hit van impe in the elbow with his head
Had me in the second half
The whol;e flyers team shoulda been off WTF are you talking about
@@Internetbutthurt r/whooooosh
@@Internetbutthurt so they should be pussies?
I'm glad I was high for this.
it must be beautiful hokkey with gorgeous combinations, but not a simple fight (((
The Red Army team could out skate and out play any NHL team but they couldn't take the hits. They weren't used to playing like that. Was great to see these guys with the different styles of play. Also at the time the NHL players didn't wear helmets and all the Russians did. Everyone thought they were pussies because of that. Great stuff.
The Canadians were the toughest and still are the toughest, they are more complete athlete than the Russian, however you do have Russian who know how to hit like Ovechkin.
Sure they were. Most of this USSR team played in the 72 summit series which was just as physical. The flyers were the only team to beat the soviets this year. Montreal tied them.
@@Shindler39 твои "совершенные" в 1979 пролетели - 6:0! А супер команда Боумана 1981 упала ещё ниже - 8:1!!! Я уж молчу про первые две игры этой серии с Бостоном и Рейнджерс. Просто тот хоккей в который тогда чудили в НХЛ и игрой назвать нельзя. Рубка клюшками, наркоманские разборки, беганье по трибунам за зрителями...
Недаром, сегодня за такое, уже в низших лигах гонят куда подальше. Так что нечего путать игру в хоккей и быдлячество с гопатой.
The first minute of this clip is a genuine ass kicking! You know the Flyers were just itching for one of the Russians to drop their gloves.
Actually this was one of the cleaner games played by the Flyers and most of the body checks were clean. The Red Army were far better, but the Flyers actually legitimately beat them. They kept the puck in the Russian zone most of the game and badly outshot them. But I'm a Red Army fan don't get me wrong, which is even more reason to see it objvectively.
Bill Barber was never the most physical player on the Flyers, but he was an animal on that shift. God what a great game that was.
Uh that's hockey, they agreed to US rules.
canadian rules
Now that is good old game of hockey for ya!
I those days the Russians weren't used to a physical game. These days it's different. I the earliest days of European hockey you couldn't body check in the offensive zone!
Суперсерию ЦСКА всё-таки выиграл. В хоккей их тогда обыграть не смогли.
USA USA USA
woolhat That's the Cyrillic СССР which is SSSR literally in English characters, better known as the USSR, the Union (Союз) of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Idiot.
ЦСКА всегда будет первым
@@JWarrior_81 Man are you crazy?))) What about USA?)) What an idiot, Jeez... Have you ever measured your IQ or something?.. Must be 200. Minus 200.
@@cornucopia8591 Funny, majority of those Flyers were Canadians.
one of the greatest two minutes ever
That hit at 0:38 was just awesome
Imagine not wearing a helmet for this
I am a Ducks fan but I love the Flyers. I can't help it I'm a Philly sports boy.
Jason Dashney well someone has a fucking rock up their ass
There was an episode of The Simpsons, where the devil (depicted as Ned Flanders) showcases the jury of the damned. Among the jurors were the starting line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers, which the Simpsons feared them the most. Back in the 70s, the Flyers were notorious for their aggressive style of play, which earned them the nickname, "the Broad Street Bullies".
Soviets play a team nicknamed “Broad Street Bullies” and are shocked and disgusted when they play rough
now i understand the simpsons reference
The Flyers were full of talent and could kick some serious ass. The games with the Rangers and Bruins were awesome and had some of the highest penalty minute games ever. The superstars of that era had to fight just like everybody else not the wusses of today who have body guards.
What a fun team to watch. Rough and tough.
#7's second hit against the boards is Hockey, and definatly my favorite hit within the minute. I love skill and speed and respect it but you have to be fast tough and ruthless, you have to be all the above to play this sport against. Today's not like that at all too bad.
#7- Bill Barber. Scored 50 goals a year and was still somehow underrated.
Thank you for uploading this. I have always thought this is the greatest minute of physical hockey ever played and I am happy to have a place to watch this without loading up my DVD and trying to find the correct time.
My favorite quote is from Ed Van Impe talking about the hit on Kharlamov and he said, "I left the pentalty box and was skating accross the ice, when all the sudden Kharlamov decided to hit his chin into my elbow. There was nothing I could do."
😮❤
Жалко, что в составе ЦСКА не нашлось игрока который дал бы в челюсть "матрасу гилмору" и не сказал тоже самое об этом логичном паступке.😢😮💤💥🤬🤫👻🚑🏥
"he ran into my elbow with his chin" ed van impe
Fan of a rival team in the NHL, but actually enjoyed the physical play here as it was North American hockey. I think I saw a documentary where Ed Snider said that "if the Soviets forfeit the game, they would not get paid, and then they came back onto the ice." Let's not forget the Soviets bullied people for years on end and for the most part, beating national teams that didn't have a full complement of elite players, exception being Canada Cup games.
For decades international rules forbid 'professional' players from playing. Meaning, no NHLers but USSR could play whoever they wanted. So it was like amateur guys like me playing against Ovechkin and Malkin. Who do you think is going to win?
Red Army was like the Globetrotters of basketball and their usual opponents were Washington Generals-quality
Quite possibly the greatest 2 minutes of hockey the flyers taught the Soviets a lesson and body checking.. and they were short-handed!!!!!
ЧЕГО УГОДНО НО НЕ ХОККЕЯ
ahhh good ol' flyers
Only time in my life I cheered for Philly.
You and all of North America
I like fighting. Conflict and resolution is what makes the world go round.
Im 62yrs old and i remember this.....it was brutal...the Russians left the ice....no words to express this....the Flyers killed them in this game.....This is our Canadian Game.....Dont fuck with us.
Iron curtain, meet brick wall
Iron curtain, meet bought refs and cheating players.
why you writing bull-shit here?! this is hockey not boxing !
@@LionMetalMusic-videochannel Hockey is physical, deal with it
@@crimzon1095 for sure it's part of the game, but not like this, going on ice in purpose of beating other players more than concentrate on game, this is night club beating not hockey game, and stop writing bull shit, watch closely what going on
@@LionMetalMusic-videochannel all legal hits my 1976. NHL standards
That was a brutal suicide pass to Kharlamov. I would have been pissed at my winger, not Van Impe.
+Michael DiSciullo - Every pass was a suicide pass, & not only in that game, in any game they played against lower skilled(at that time), players from N/America.
Except. . . The Flyers' best players were as skilled or more. Bobby Clarke was a better center than any of them (he tallied more than one assist per game that NHL season), and Barber and Leach would have been top-line guys on any Soviet team of the '70s. Parent and Tretiak were probably two of the top three goalies in the world at the time, too.
Michael DiSciullo smartest comment yet on this, I played 30 yrs big time hockey flyers goons?! Wat a joke check out the point standings score sheets and stats from the bullies those years and then try to say the same thing, I watched that game live every LOV on that great team had their heart taken then not too long after our college kids beat them, thanks for the comment wide open hockey like that against North American doesn't work with your head down, guy hung him out to dry wit pass and he paid for it stop crying
@@dexterwallace8831 No, it wasn't. The Flyers were the best hockey team in the world at the time. And the referee that night was a Soviet. That's just silly. The second-best team in the league were the Canadiens, and they skated to a 3-3 tie with HC CSKA Moscow (who didn't even win their domestic league that year, one of only two times they didn't for a 20-year span). The Soviets had a great system, and the North American teams learned from it. Most of their players were inferior talents to the best NHL players, though.
Харламов told in his book that they preffered to refuse playing than became disabled.
The cold war era, the only time in history when Ranger fans cheered for the Flyers.
The weird thing about this is, the flyers played far rougher than this on an everyday basis against other NHL teams than they did against the red army
НЕ ЖЕСТЧЕ ,А ЕЩЁ ГРЯЗНЕЙ ТЫ ХОТЕЛ СКАЗАТЬ,ТАК ПО МОЕМУ ДАЛЬШЕ НЕКУДА ,ПРОБИЛИ САМОЕ ДНО
That ref totally wasn't bias..
Tell how would you rule in a game where a nation was playing that killed may 100 million people.
Music-man...stick with music!
+bighands69
This is a regional team for Moscow.
100 Million people?
Lol, Philly wasn't there to win, they were there to hurt them
All the Flyers were from Canada. Soviets couldn't beat Canadians
I like how the Soviets all wore helmets way before the NHL ever required them
That has always made me laugh how the Flyers didn’t wear helmets but the Soviet team did lol. It’s funny how macho the Canadian players were when they played hockey and they didn’t wear helmets lol. It’s crazy to think they didn’t wear helmets back then, but even up until the early 90s you would see one guy on a team not wearing a helmet lol.
The standard reply would be: "They had brains to protect" lol
Bob Cole has been around since 76!! wow, more than 50 yr career!
"The Soviets all want a penalty, but I tell ya, Dick, that was a solid check..."
hahah riiiight
+VanityConcubine hahaha
VanityConcubine
Наказать американских хулиганов должны в первую очередь арбитры, а потом уж советские хоккеисты. Бандиты не должны играть в хоккей, а должны сидеть в тюрьме.
Kharlamov got hit 3 or 4 times I think it was.
Usually known their meticulous preparation and adjustments, this had to be one of IF NOT THE WORST job of coaching by the Soviets during the Red Army era thinking that the Flyers weren't going to play the same hockey that won them two straight Stanley Cups and got them to a third despite injuries to key players.
If that wasn't enough, the bad blood between the squads from the 1972 Summit series AND having Bobby Clarke and Valeri Kharmalov on the same ice?
Even at ten years old when I was an ice hockey goaltender (and a Flyers fan since Bernie Parent was my boyhood idol) and was starting to learn a bit about the Red Army teams I said to my dad "What did the Russians expect?"
Awesome post, but Canadiens outclasses them if I remember correctly
Clean hit
They were all legal hits by 1976 NHL standards.
+Lava1964 Yep. And should be today also. They have fucked up the beutiful game.
+SonyT250 Mad troll level achieved. You DO realize that in modern hockey the skating speed and the overall speed of the game is like 10 times faster than during those days? You also realize some basic level of physics. If both skaters are skating as fast as modern day and every one would be hitting with crosschecks or elbows to the head we would see massive amount of injuries and concussions and most likely deaths. Example a car crash at 10mph and a car crash at 40mph.
+JackTheNoober What part of "these were all legal hits in 1976" don't you understand? At one time in the NFL you used to be able to tackle players by grabbing their face masks and it was legal. You could impede receivers all the way down the field and not be penalized--so those things happened until they changed the rules. You can't retroactively apply 2016 rules to 1976. Got it yet? (By the way I have no interest in UFC. I think it's barbaric.) You really do need to clean up your language. It's very offensive and not suitable for public debates..
Lava1964 you stupid fuck it has always been illegal to hit your opponent with your elbow from behind, that russian pkayer wasnt even involved in the gameplay, he didnt have the puck and got assaulted from behind (pause). That is a clear penalty no matter if 1950, 1976 or 2016.
+Krayzie Nigga I see you appear to be biologically incapable of debating anything without resorting to vulgarities. Why do you do that? As sad as that is, have you ever watched any NHL games from the early and mid-1970s? I doubt it. That kind of stuff went on all the time without penalties being called. ( You'll notice that my initial comment has gotten six thumbs-up from hockey fans who accurately remember those days.) You might want to research what I'm telling you, but I doubt that you will make the effort. I'll help you out: The Canadian Press correspondent who covered this particular game couldn't understand what the Red Army team was complaining about because he reported it was a "tame game" by Philadelphia's standards in 1976. Look at the Sports Illustrated coverage of Super Series '76 and it says virtually the same thing. It's available online if you have the courage to seek the truth.
It's a good shift when the commentator says "he was belted" 3 times in one minute😂
Those of you that have problems with how the FLYERS played that night ... TELL IT TO THE CZAR!!
Ed Snider - Tell the coach he's not getting paid.
The Red Army players had a reputation of spitting on opposing players and slashing when the ref wasn't looking . .they were just a dirty as the Flyers.
@Cody Cumby Ну, ты, конечно, лжец. Совпадение - это развал СССР
well that's exactly what the flyers of the 70's could do! they could skate, pass, shoot and goaltend AND beat the shit out of everyone :-D that's why they were so succesful, a lot of people choose to JUST look at the violence but they had talent and dicipline too
"I'm listening to the damn song!!!!"
Blackhawks fan & US hockey fan I'll love Ed Van Impe forever for this hit on Valeri Kharlamov my favorite hit he just crushed him!!!!
Freddie Last wasn't dirty???
he elbowed the guy in the face....
That was the dirtiest hit I ever seen. Kharlamov didn’t even have the puck!!
Fuck Van Impe and Flyers.
РУССКИЕ ЛУЧШИЕ,БОЛЕЛЬЩИК ИЗ КАНАДЫ
РУССКИЕ ЛУЧШИЕ БОЛЕЛЬЩИК ИЗ КАНАДЫ
This happened during the Cold War folks. They weren’t acting like that because the soviets were better, they were acting like that because they fucking hated them. Some of the flyer players played during the Canada-soviet matches in 1972. And the soviets got destroyed 😂. It was just hate that drove them to act like goons, not because they thought the soviets were better.
if anyone got destroyed during that '72 series that would be Canada PRO team that got owned the very first game, on home ice and that journalist who ate his article in newspaper where he said that is Soviets will will, he will eat his newspaper page :D
Soviets got destroyed? What were you watching? Soviets outscored the Canadians IIRC and only won because of goonery, biased refs and breaking Kharlamovs ankle in game 4 or 5 - a guy who literally skated through the entire Canadian team and scored. Canadians scored in the dying seconds to win the series. It was very lucky. Canadians knew they (Soviets) were better but they wanted to win at any cost; Esposito said as much. Zero honor.
kharlamov is one of the strongest players i know he broke his leg in a car crash and still went against canada when he broke his leg and continued the game
Помню я этот матч..Мальчишкой ещё смотрел его...Как отличался наш хоккей того времени от сегодняшнего...Сейчас драки в хоккее норма...Изменилась жизнь...изменилось всё...а жаль.
При Тарасов в сборной было силовое звено Мишаков, Ионов, Моисеев, которое играло в канадском стиле, он же ввёл на тренировках бокс, но его ушли с должности и все заглохло, канадцы наших тогда били безбожно, а наши отвечали редко, все изменилось, тот хоккей ушёл в небытие у нас, но перешёл в Канаду, они взяли из него лучшее.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, 35 years later and this shit is still funny!
the hit was no legal...clear penalty!
It was a legal hit
I'm proud of my proud franchise. Let's go Flyers!!! It's time for us to rise up again.
The Flyers Team Since 76 off course!
damn those flyers can play hockey
Commissioner told them to give them hell
That is correct.
1st Russia, 2nd Canada ITS TRUE!!!
The flyers knew those Russians would skate circles around them. That's why they played that way.
When hockey was hockey.
I am a huge Russian hockey fan, they were my favorite of all time, especially Tretiak, Krutov, Makarov, and Kapustin. BUT, I will say the Flyers were rough but not dirty this game. This was one of their cleaner games. They actually played some good hockey here and I thought they badly outplayed the Russian team. Don't get me wrong, the Red Army would win 3 or 4 out of 5, but this one belonged to the Flyers. Their checks were hard but clean. USSR just wasn't ready for it.
Over the years I hope your eyesight has gotten better
That’s a lot of poop coming out if your mouth ..
Are fucking kidding me!!??,.what a bullshit comment Tony.
ДА ВИДНО НАСТОЯЩЕГО ХОККЕЯ ВЫ НЕ ВИДЕЛИ
As a Penguins fan this is the one time in history I'll say I'm proud of the Flyers
simply put, flyers knew they didnt have the skill, so they decided to use their best asset.
The Flyers had a lot of skill. Three of those guys are in the Hall of Fame. So is the coach, G.M. & owner..... I could make a case for three more players to be in.
My Dad was at this game.
Ed Van Impe classic reply to Khalamov hit: "He ran into my elbow with his chin" Hahahahahahaha
I’ve always laughed how the Soviet team all wore helmets but the Flyers did not wear any helmets lol.
Actually helmets became mandatory in the early 1970s on iihf tournaments, since soviets were used to play there, im not suprised they wore em
A few Flyers wore helmets. I seem to recall Orest Kindrachuck, Andre DuPont, and possibly Ross Lonsberry.
They're going home! They're going home!
Another exhibition super series in December would work, I can't see this happening after the intensity of a Stanley Cup Final and winning the ultimate prize in hockey.The appetite for NHL players association to agree to then go and play basically an exhibition against the Russian league champs would be nill, mainly because the Russian league has a much easier schedule and I think finishes much earlier than the NHL season. Another thing is that all the best Russian players now play in the NHL.
Hockey should of stayed this way
Yea so the americans wouldn'd be watching the game like then... If hockey got more popular in the US it's because the eliminated those dirty cheap shots.
Trish Clark yep
should have
Lmao, should it have? a lot of the changes have made it a better game, and a lot of them are inspired by players not wanting to get beat up for an hour every time they go to work.
Elvis Costello its a figure skating game with sticks now ypu must be a peace loving liberal fuck
Так всегда, если кто то лучше тебя тебе охото его ударить -))
США был лучше тогда.
@@encycl07pedia- ну да, я вижу в чем =)
@@encycl07pedia- с чем сравниваешь?
@@andreia950xx3 С русской командей.
@@encycl07pedia- Историю не знаешь,если б не руководство СССР,подчинявшееся вашингтонскому обкому,кстати захватившему власть в России в 1917 году,то привезли б немного другую команду и дали им там по рогам за подобный беспредел.А не угрожали игрокам,что отвечать нельзя,а то заграницу не поедете и со спортом вообще распрощаетесь.И вообще,если б не мировое правление моисеевой секты,этих противостояний в такой форме просто не было,только такая секта могла делать такую идеологическую накачку,деля весь мир на капитолистов,коммунистов,христиан и т.д..
Don't forget that the flyers won one the scoreboard. This game was never close.
The Red Army vs Bruins game was much rougher.