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Originally Posted by Fidatelo
You realise we are the same nation that celebrates sending Bobby Clarke over the boards to break a young Russian's ankle, right?
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I was too young to see the series but I've got it on DVD. It's incredible watching the series from start to end, the swings in emotion, the genuine animosity between the teams and delgations. It was a different time and place. It was Us against Them like never before. Clarke would never have done that in a Stanley Cup against a North American player.
One of the best parts was hearing a contingent of Canadians in Moscow screaming "Nyet, nyet Soviet! Dah, Dah, Canada!" The Soviet crowd was virtually silent.
It's likely we'll never see anything like that again.