USSR - Canada. More Than Hockey
Season 1
S1 · E1 · Jan 1, 2002
1 Episode 1
S1 · E2 · Jan 8, 2002
Episode 2 Episode 2
S1 · E3 · Jan 15, 2002
Episode 3 Episode 3
S1 · E4 · Jan 22, 2002
Episode 4 Episode 4
4 episodes in Season 1
Today, a series of hockey matches in 1972 between the national teams of Canada and the USSR is remembered only with the prefix super. They call it a milestone in the history of the development of world hockey, and not only hockey. The meeting of Soviet hockey players with Canadian professionals has become the main topic of world news. One Canadian journalist promised to eat the newspaper in which it is printed if the Russians win. The Russians won. And the journalist Dick Beddoes had to fulfill his promise and eat a report in the newspaper with borscht. What happened then, 30 years ago in the USSR, Canada, how the games were held in Canada and Moscow, the intensity of the political confrontation around hockey, life before and after the super series - about all this in five episodes.
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Vitaly Mansky Creator · Nikita Vasiliev Director
Total runtime 3h 28m · Episode length 52 min · Type Documentary
Show info
Premiered
January 1, 2002
Final episode
January 22, 2002
Status
Returning series
Country
Russia
Type
Documentary
Episode length
52 min
Total runtime
3h 28m
Original language
Russian
Production
Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
СССР - Канада. Больше, чем хоккей
Spoken on screen
Russian
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