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The game that saved the NHL : the Broad Street Bullies, the Soviet Red Machine, and Super Series '76
- Title
- The game that saved the NHL : the Broad Street Bullies, the Soviet Red Machine, and Super Series '76 / Ed Gruver ; foreword by Joe Watson.
- Author
- Gruver, Ed, 1960-
- Publication
- Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2024]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Watson, Joe
- Description
- xxiii, 263 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In the mid-1970s, at the height of the Cold War, two of the Soviet Union's long-dominant national hockey teams traveled to North America to play an eight-game series against the best teams in the National Hockey League. This book tells the story of the epic game, in which nothing less than the credibility of the NHL was at stake. If the Red Army team completed its series sweep by defeating the two-time Stanley Cup champion Flyers, the NHL would no longer have been able to claim primacy of place in professional-level hockey"--
- Alternative Title
- Game that saved the National Hockey League
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Chapter one : Broad Street Bullies -- Chapter two : Red Machine (Krasnaya Mashina) -- Chapter three: Freddy the fog -- Chapter four: Moscow's Mr. Go and Mr. No (Moskovsky Mister go yi Mister Nyet) -- Chapter five: Fire on ice in Philly -- Chapter six: Super series '76 -- Chapter seven: Realpolitik, Spectrum style -- Chapter eight: The Soviets strike back -- Chapter nine: Fort Wayne -- Chapter ten: The Bullies' final battle -- Epilogue : making the modern NHL.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3191
- ISBN
- 9781493074976
- 1493074970
- 9781493079445 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023014468
- OCLC
- 1342621061
- Author
- Gruver, Ed, 1960- author.
- Title
- The game that saved the NHL : the Broad Street Bullies, the Soviet Red Machine, and Super Series '76 / Ed Gruver ; foreword by Joe Watson.
- Publisher
- Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2024]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Watson, Joe, writer of foreword.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Gruver, Ed, 1960- Game that saved the NHL Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2023] 9781493079445 (DLC) 2023014469
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3191