“Being among about 3,000 Canadians at the game, I can verify that Pravda’s ‘broken chairs’ reporting was high octane invention,” writes David C. Day of St. John’s.
MOSCOW - SEPTEMBER 28, 1972: Paul Henderson #19 and Bobby Clarke #28 of Team Canada celebrate Henderson's series-winning goal in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union at the Luzhniki Ice Palace in Moscow, Soviet Union on September 28, 1972. - Denis BrodeurFifty years ago – on Sept. 29 – I deposited my room key with the ever-vigilant security matron at Hotel Lenin and walked into a chilly Moscow morning.
The only breakfast on offer that morning was juice dispensed from a street vending machine. For two kopecks, you accessed three ounces of beverage in a glass tumbler. After consumption, you were expected to clean the tumbler using provided cold water spray, then return it to the machine.Bruce Redden, of Berwick, N.S., cherishes numbered, signed print of Henderson’s 1972 Summit Series goal
More than a few words were devoted to what Red Star reported as the “character” of Canada’s players: “they demonstrated a complete repertoire of hooliganistic antics and unethical behaviour towards their opponents and showed disrespect for the officials. There were many long stoppages in play as referees were sending Canadians off the ice regularly during the entire game.”
Pravda described the game as “the big one”: to determine “whether the Soviet sportsmen or the Canadian Professionals were masters of the [ice hockey] game. Naturally,” Pravda continued, “this gave rise to a great deal of tension but one could not help but remember the old Russian saying ‘why break the chairs’.”
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