The Summit in 1974
1974

 

PRESS ROOM 1974: Game 4

SOVETSKY SPORT DAILY

by Vladimir Dvortsov
September 1974
Toronto

The last game on Canadian soil was a great hockey game. The fans witnessed ten goals with the 5-5 final score.

Bobby Hull made a hat trick. Needless to say, all five goals by Team Canada were scored in the first period.

"We are oldtimers... We asked our teammates to do their best in the first period, when we were still fresh," Bobby Hull told me after the game.

It wasn't an easy task for Team USSR to equalize the game in the remaining two periods.

The game breaking goal was was the third one by Yakushev.

The fourth goal was scored by Maltsev with three minutes to play.

"We need one more goal," said Kulagin. "Who is going to do it?"

Gusev did. His long shot was brilliant. Way to go! Our team played hard
till the very end of the game.

OK. Instead of bringing Team USSR back home to play the rest of the Summit in Russia, Aeroflot sold their plane tickets to... some of the 3,000 of Canadian fans who, like they did in 1972, were going to support their team in Moscow.

Aeroflot's error was fixed very fast. Otherwise, who else would have Team Canada had to face in the Summit in Moscow?

After all these troubles, we got on a comfortable American plane and ten got to Moscow through Zurich.



 

 

 

The Summit in 1974