Was good to see them get humiliated.
the 70’s Flyers were a bad bunch to mess with... then again, MOST NHL teams in the 70’s were a bad bunch to mess with, haha!!
I still remember when Al Arbour led his St Louis Blues charging up into the Spectrum stands after fans in the early 70’s, Cops swinging nightsticks, fans duking it out with them...
Now THAT’s HOCKEY!!!! Haha!
That wasn't hockey...........
Have you had a chance to watch ESPN's 30 for 30? It's airing right now...........
It gives great insight into what the Russian players had to truly endure in order to remain on the team........for them it was hockey or nothing, with "nothing" meaning exactly that.
Of course we here in the United States can rejoice from that outcome but there were dramatic repercussions for the actual players of that team in the years that followed.
Am I a sympathizer for that Russian team? Considering what their lives were like playing for their communist national team as compared to the lives of our own skaters, yea, I truly am.
And while the 1980 soviet team included Slava Fetisov, who is currently in the NHL hall of fame, there should be a special award made to him for personally opening the soviet door to Russian hockey players to come to this country........