CCCP HOCKEY- Soviet Hockey Documentary (English) 

We are that when being boys. In tennis I wanted Becker to lose versus our Swedes. Now I know Becker was the best of the best. Winning is no more important. The sport itself is. Like hockey.

Yes you are certainly an American from America.

Larionov is my second favorite russian player (besides Kovalev), i would had the same reaction

I had a chance to see sasha mogilony play and I have never sern such dedication and a will to win in hockey before.

Fedorov is my favorite and why Im a Fan Of The Anaheim Ducks there my 2nd favorite After Colorado

I know this comment is old, but there is now a movie called The Russian Five. Great movie!

flyers beat ther ass

I prefer Andrei Vasilveskiy and Jim Craig

Rip

He drank a lot... He was a great player.

Glebov Sergey Firsov too.

@@glebovsergey9259 So many great men, succumb to the effects of alcohol. That is the result of suppression.

I disagree Soviet Hockey is the Darker version of US-Canadian Hockey

Icehockey as all sports on ice was incented in The Nehterlands. You can see it on paintings in the 16th and 17th century, So it is our game (haha).

Sports are the best bridge builder. That and art/ music. The Chinese have a sayings- ' Through blows(punches,ie fighting & competing) friendship grows.

It’s the same way they justify the prevalent propaganda in their country. When it suits their “side” they’ll eat anything up. It’s subtly, but it’s how they give you a distorted account of reality by giving you half-truths.

Wieso er hat doch Recht! Es war kein Finale. Es gab nur eine Finalrunde. Die Sowjetunion verlor gegen die USA 3:4. Danach gewannen sie gegen Schweden 9:2. Die USA gewannen das letzte Spiel 4:2 gegen Finnland! Dann war Schluß! Also nicht auf westliche Propaganda reinfallen!!!

Jim Beam and now he’s 1st...

me too and i was there to watch them both live... Krutov was one of the biggest disappointments in Canucks history and losing Larionov to Detroit was one of the biggest mistakes in franchise history

I agree.... Good comment.

Your comment is selective in how it interprets the facts. Let's look at history. You're correct that Canada had the best hockey players at the beginning. In fact, when the IIHF was founded in Europe, Canada was initially banned from participating because they were too good. When they were eventually admitted they ran roughshod over the European competition, a humiliation that was never forgiven by Bunny Aherne and came back haunt them in the 1960's. In the late 1940's the Soviets decided to play hockey and won the World Championship the first year they entered the tournament, in 1954. However, Canadian amateurs were still competitive as late as 1961 when the Trail Smoke Eaters, a Senior A team won the World Championship. That team was made up of part-time players never good enough to play in the NHL. The Soviets continued to improve and in the 1960's it became clear that Canada could no longer win World Championships or Olympic gold medals with Senior A players. So the "National Team" concept was born. These were college boys and overage Junior A players. They represented Canada honourably but were no match for the Soviets who were full-time professionals in all but name. Also, Canada was not only playing against the powerful Soviets and the rapidly improving Czechs & Swedes but also the officials on and off the ice. In the late 1960's the IIHF agreed to permit Canada to place a small number of professionals on their team for the World Championships. However, the IIHF quickly reneged when the Soviets vetoed the agreement, claiming that their amateur status would be endangered if they played against Canadian professionals. The real reason was that the Soviets were not ready for NHL players, not just yet. As a result of that, Canada boycotted the World Championships for several years years. The Canadian demand for a showdown between the Soviet professionals and Canada's best got louder and by 1972 the Soviets considered themselves ready. The Summit Series was arranged. I agree with you that this series was marred on several levels. There had been compromises about mixing International rules with NHL rules but in the first game it was comical to see that no one had thought about who gets the last line change. Canadian organizers, such as Al Eagleson, shamed themselves in their eagerness to play the Soviets. Ninety-nine per cent of us Canadians thought that it would be a cakewalk. All our lads would have to do was show up from their summer vacations, loosen up a bit and win all eight games. There was even foolish talk that players like Jean Beliveau and Gordie Howe should be brought out of retirement so they could have a go at them. As a result of all that overconfidence Canadian organizers caved in on pretty much everything, including the most important thing of all: the schedule. We didn't know it at the time but the Soviet ice hockey team was at the forefront of their steroids in sports program. By allowing the Soviets to determine the schedule, we gave them the opportunity to get their drug cycle to peak at the time of the first games in Canada. We were so naive. As late as 1976 at the Montreal Olympics we still didn't get it. East Bloc steroid monsters were winning Ladies gold medals and we believed them when they said, "training & diet". But I digress. Yes, Kharlomov's broken ankle was a cheap shot. But it was no worse than Soviet cheating now that we know about it. It would have been nice to have Hull and Keon on the team, and of course a healthy Bobby Orr would have made a big difference. Your last paragraph is confusing. The Soviets did show how good they were in the 1960's. They were happy to beat college kids and refused to play NHL-ers. In 1972 we saw what the Soviets "could really do" on the big ice in the in the Moscow games. Canada let the first game get away and then won the final three. One more thing: Canadians have a right to feel cheated. Let me ask you this. How many Olympiads passed between the time that Canada could no longer win gold medals with amateurs until they were allowed to to compete with their best players? How many Olympiads passed between the time that the USA could no longer win basketball gold medals with college kids until they were allowed to compete with their best players? Regards.

One word: Legendary national team of all times...no foreign players

Name the foreign players and Canada's national teams.

408Magenta -- watch the documentary Red Army. It goes even deeper than this, and has an incredible feeling to it and legitimacy. You should love it :)

They had to be.

Fetisov is not respected in Russia ...

Soviet steroid monsters before Canadians had any idea.

@@Mister_Pedanticcope

Watch the documentary Red Army instead.

+Vladimir Skala kiss my zhopa!! canadians were the best!!!! and ARE the best!!!

+yokel I see you learned a russian word. Now fuck off.

Ussr russia 27 world cups canada 25 cups ussr won world cup 9 times 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 soo shut up ussr hockey history 1954-1991 only 37 years exist wons 29 world titles

They played college kids and amateurs in every olympics, and got to play all star nhl teams that had no team chemistry. Theres a reason Russia hasn't won gold since before 1980. Every nations best players are allowed to play for their country (except this year) and Russia got socked in the mouth

твой клиновый лист-ну как и прежде выступает в роли-лопуха !!!разрешаю тебе,прокукарекать,что нибудь мне в ответ !!!

Jupe or Valery Kharlomov

Greatest coach of all-time, any sport

He is featured in the outstanding documentary Red Army, by Gabe Polsky. That documentary stands head and shoulders above this one. In Red Army, Slava Fetisov shares so much, and Slava is a great man. Don't miss it!

@@hotdogwater7037 i dont know about any sport but hockey yes I agree.

@@stevehall7479 well youre probably right to some extent, but name a better coach, keeping in mind that he built up a hockey system from a couple of books about hockey, lessons from a chess champion and a ballet instructor, and that his home made system dominated the entire world for more than 40 years

Jason L and architecture.......

Yea cause they were held captive to do so.

@@pickles8299 wtf, “held captive” 😂😂

whats great about it chicken butt? Your chicken brain is going wonky

But, CCCP hocke team best of all history of this sport!

+Samir Kosov Uh, the Canada team in 74 was not an NHL team. sorry for pointing out the facts to you.

The good old days when testing for banned substances was in its infancy. Make the Russians great again by allowing performance enhancing drugs.

It made Canada start having to play a team sport. Best thing that happened to hockey was that series.

It was Team WHA not Canada. As for Soviet Union it itself was funded by a 'New York' bank in the early1920's.

It was Team WHA with a 46-year-old Gordie Howe on the roster.

@@markodmytriyev4215 he is the villain Herb Brooks innovative the Game but blending both Schools Russia & Canada we have the speed and skills Thanks the Heroic Herbs Brooks not the Evil Tikonoov

Канада - костоломы выиграли кубок Канады только благодаря судье.

and you seem to be a tired old butt with no future and no past. Isn't that a fact ? Time to start looking inside your own soul and see just how dark and depressing and suicidal you really are ? Let's wake up before it's too late

robert, you seem to be wrong on the point. Sven was right: what the hell do the parades, be they May Day one or Victory Day over nazis one, have in common with the hockey at all? Wasn't by the way, May Day, inspired by what had once happened in the USA? Can a nation that lost tens of millions of its citizens in WW2 have a right to celebrate the day of victory in a way they want? So, what's the problem with parades then? So why the f*ck the movie shows parades and bored faces and tired bodies all the way through? Yes, that was tough, but those were national heroes and they did it voluntarily and were fully aware of why and what they were doing. Those were tough patient well-trained real men, not a bunch of sissies.

I felt the extra shots of parades and such was to give a time line and a representation of what’s was going on at the time. It wasn’t politicized unless your a communist who can’t let go. Then maybe you see it as a hit job on communism. Too bad, communism sucks.

@Robert Ryan, now there's a question of the difference between Communist dictatorship as it is in North Korea and the Soviet quasi-Communist not-always-and-not-so-totalitarian regime. I was born in the USSR, lived in it and I see the difference. The movie demonstrates parades in a sequence pretending to impress the western watchers with the idea that parades happened on every Saturday night. Well, the military parades on May 9 happened on big anniversaries, like 40 years, 45 years after 1945. May Day parades were not military, it was just a sort of Eastern Slavic carnival with political overtones, if you will. May Day parades only happened once a year, certainly. The rest 363-364 days the parades happened NOT. The movie pretends to claim, they did.

@Les Moore, perhaps, I've or someone else missed the point. But there's still a feeling of too much anti-Soviet propaganda in the documentary.

Richard Ong Yes -well said. And it was Tarasov who pioneered the soviet style of hockey.

+erichansen82 There're all leftist, remember!

Sweden had a population of 5 875 693 in the year 1920, 7 013 950 in 1950 and 8 042 657 in 1970. Still impressive though.

+Alexander Wisber I agree. Is it still possible in our times of spectacle and money? To wake up this spirit?

++++++you are so right!!!

Scotty Bowman is the greatest hockey coach of all time.

thesly74 No, he isn't. It's Tikhonov at No.1, Tarassov at No.2 and Bowman at No.3. Tarassov built CCCP hockey from scratch, Tikhonov perfected it and made mighty Red Machine - the greatest ice hockey team ever assembled. Bowman never had to built canadian on anyone's else's hockey program.

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Дмитрий Залевский Ochen horosho.:)

Are you kidding?? what about Glenn Sather who created the Oilers Team that won throughout the '80s?

They didn’t need it.

@@metalmk6839 Of course they did. It's all out there now.

@@metalmk6839 As it happened, they did. The Canadians won 4 games out of 8. By the 8th game the Canadians were the better team.

@Digital Communist Tell yourself that. Repeat until you believe it.

Teabagonyou which did u like better?

Red Army was very good! See it!

+666mathew you need to see both to get a better picture anyway

Teabagonyou å

Lol.. Komm onn.. you dont know that, do ya?.... But less skilled outta these 5??! Definitely YES!

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