the 1972 Summit Series was the first hockey event between communist USSR and NHL all stars from Canada....in the final and decisive game, played in Moscow, the Russians had Tretiak, their goalie, protect a goal in which the netting was wound tighter then rubber...
early in the first period the Canadians scored a goal but the light never went on and the puck ricocheted out of the net almost as fast as it went in because of the tight netting...the Canadians lifted their sticks to celebrate then looked on in disbelief when the goal was not counted...
the game was tied late in the third period when the same EXACT thing happened....this time the Canadians continued the celebration, forcing the Soviet officials on hand to count the goal...Canada won the game and the series...
btw- in 1980 I was a 16YO Olympic hopeful training for the decathlon.....my hatered for jimmah carter deepened the way he made our athlete’s stay home...just about all who were pure amatuers with many living on food stamps and working part time jobs while they trained for the olympics...this was on the heels of the hostage crisis in Iran...
****btw- in 1980 I was a 16YO Olympic hopeful training for the decathlon.....my hatered for jimmah carter deepened the way he made our athlete’s stay home...****
You mean you didn’t go to the Freedom Games held in opposition to the Moscow games and win one of those gold plated Liberty Bell coin banks?
I have two of them unplated.