[X-FID]

Include me. USA College kids vs. USSR army pros. What a game!

Indeed, I followed the Russian team during the 70's they were an awesome, very professional team, a machine, and they got beat by our boys, you couldn't make up a better story.

[mosby]

How good was that USSSR team? In 1972 Canadian NHL all-stars played the USSR for the first time. It was an 8 game series, 4 games in Canada, 4 games in the USSR. The Canadians won the last 3 games in Moscow to take the series 4-3-1, with Paul Henderson scoring the winning goal in the last minute of the 8th game. That Canadian team had all the NHL greats of that era on it - Esposito, Savard, Dryden, etc (although Bobby Orr was injured and missed the series). During the 70's Canadian NHL all-star teams played the USSR on numerous occasions. I would say that overall the results were about even - maybe a slight edge to the NHL.

The 1980 USSR team that the US college team beat was at least the equivalent of the 1972 USSR team. In effect a bunch of US college players beat a team equal in talent to the best in the NHL (NHL players couldn't play in 1980 because they were pro's). Difficult to think of a comparable sporting result. Amazing.

[Finalapproach29er]

The USA team lost to the Russians 2 weeks earlier at Madison Square Garden 7-2.