A Century of Memories Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/8/2009
"Henderson takes a wild stab at it Reserve he scores!" This lot will take you right back to September 1972, when Canada's best hockey players finally got an opportunity to face the red menace. The NHL pros quickly realized the Soviets were no paper tiger, ultimately needing three straight wins in Moscow to claim victory in the unprecedented eight-game Summit Series. Sinden, Ferguson, Tony and Phil Esposito, Frank and Peter Mahovlich, Henderson, Dryden, Cournoyer, Clarke, Mikita, Parise, Ratelle, Gilbert, Cashman, Ellis, Berenson, Dennis Hull, Savard, Lapointe, Bergman, Stapleton, White, Park, Seiling, Awrey, Perreault, Dionne, Redmond, Tallon, Glennie, Johnston, Guevremont, Martin and Hadfield have all signed a Team Canada photo. Individual ticket stubs from Game 2 in Toronto and Game 3 in Winnipeg are included here along with a vintage blank "Go Canada!" postcard sponsored by ScotiaBank and addressed to "Palace of Sports, Moscow, U.S.S.R." A Kentours Hockey Canada nametag has its owner's name handwritten on its face and a sticker on the reverse with flags on crossed hockey sticks and "Canada-U.S.S.R. Hockey Tour Moscow - 1972" printed. An "Official Home TV Program For the Moscow Series" sponsored by Ford and presented by Team Canada and Hockey Canada is a great vintage item, along with an original Hockey Canada series program featuring a bilingual $2 price on the cover. Four vintage books on the series - "Death of a Legend" by Henk Hoppener, Harry Sinden's "Hockey Showdown", Hockey Canada's "Twenty-seven days in September" and Jack Ludwig's paperback "Hockey Night in Moscow" - complete this great lot along with a 1987 "Relive the Dream" program marking the series' 15th anniversary.
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