"Everybody is on their feet screaming 'kill, kill, kill!' THIS IS HOCKEY!"
Posted on 02/21/2015 1:48:08 PM PST by PROCON
I remember it. I was living in a dorm at App State and we watched it. It was such an amazing moment.
People who didn’t live then will never understand the gloom of the time.
A commentator today would try to provide a narrative that says “This isn’t what it is”.
Leni
If you do it, would you have the decency to record it on video and arrange for someone to post it here.
That pull, right there, was the greatest dumbass move in hockey period. I was trying to remember his name...Tretiak...I saw him keep goal while 5 of his team mates were shooting at the goal in rapid fire. Nothing went in. They kept on shooting for 5 minutes...it was a sight to behold.
“...That wasn’t hockey....”
Yes, it was, in the 1970s. The sport has changed a lot, but that’s the way it was back then. A LOT more hitting, a lot more fighting, and a lot more penalties.
Was it better? No, not really. But it would be false to say that that’s not what the public wanted to see back then.
“...Am I a sympathizer for that Russian team? ...”
I’m not. I have no sympathy whatsoever for communist anything.
Just a different perspective than yours, that’s all.
"Everybody is on their feet screaming 'kill, kill, kill!' THIS IS HOCKEY!"
“Slapshot”??
Agreed but after watching the documentary, the truly greatest dumbass move by the Russians was when they unexpectedly and politically terminated the services of their coach Anatoly Tarasov back in 1972.........
As I said before, I now have a renewed respect for that 1980 Russian hockey team and what they had to endure before and after the olympics.........
It wasn't that way before the 70's and it isn't now. In other words, that wasn't hockey.........
Not going to argue, bud. We remember it differently.
I’ll move along now.
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