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Canada Russia '72 (2006)
Good movie
I've seen this movie on CBC and would recommend it to anyone who is a hockey fan, Canadian or not. One thing that I liked was how they showed Bobby Clarke being told to take out Valeri Kharlamov. Clarke has taken a lot of crap about that from a lot of people most notably Paul Henderson. Had he not done what he was told to do Canada could very well have lost that series and Henderson would have gone down as nothing more than the mediocre NHL player that he was. I did find the ending to be slightly anticlimactic, and the scene in the locker room when Esposito gives the Russian player a stick, made the Canadian team look like a group of jerks. This is a side note to Aaron Fisher from Canada: Not to knock what they did, but Team Canada didn't blow the Soviets away and only won one game by more than a goal. The difference between the Summit Series and the Miracle on Ice is that in the '72 Series you have pros playing pros. The MOI was a group of college kids that beat what was basically a team as good as any NHL team, an achievement that is just as significant and arguably more impressive.