1976 canada cup game winner

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[@goalieguy41]

lovely goal...the loudest cheer you will ever hear for a Toronto Maple Leaf in Montreal

[@frankderudder7290]

Love it when leaf players score the winning goal!! Henderson and sittler!!!!!

[@brucemorton7787]

never had the chance with the Loafs.... lol... Ballard tore down that team with his bullshit.... lol.

[@joeidaho5938]

Funny how that happened, eh? 72 was a crappy period for the Leafs...and 76 is when the Leafs were showing promise....but always to be ruined by the stupidity and greed of Harold Ballard.

[@PopShoppekid]

@@brucemorton7787 yes so true. If the Smythe family ran the team in the 70's instead of that clown Ballard maybe I say maybe the Leafs do end up winning a Cup. ? At least so many great players would not have been traded away for next to nothing , sadly.

[@elvicare35]

As I was watching this (Donnie and Dahli think that Garlands goal against Edmonton was similar to Sittlers) it CAME TO ME, hey, in both the '72 and '76 series the winning goals were scored by Toronto Maple Leafs, the Leafs that you loved or at least liked... My favorites, David Keon, Doug Favell, Jacques Plante, Tim Horton, Darryl Sittler, Tiger Williams...

[@wilmanric1]

I can't beleive it's been two years since I watched this clip! Wow, that is such a beautiful goal. I mean a goal's a goal, and a a win's a win no matter what, but this was art.

[@MMcG25]

What the heck was the Czech goalie doing on that goal - He was WAY out!

[@mijf1171]

Orr, Potvin, Park Savard, etc., is that possibly the greatest defencemen tandum on one team?

[@joeidaho5938]

Even the forwards were amazing.....so many great ones all on the same team. This was the time of the Montreal dynasty with Dryden as goalie.

[@ldhorricks]

sad I didnt know Dzurilla died...he was just normal guy who loved to play the game...and real gentleman

[@blackdenali7]

Sittler....my idol...10 points in one game...nobody has done that...except him...and to play for ballard....sheesh...makes him a hero...great guy...and a Christian I am told...good for you Darryl...may god bless...

[@austinnicholl8891]

I heard he has since converted to Hinduism.

[@russelljdj]

Daryl Sitler, one of the pros that taught us kids at Orr/Walton Hockey Camp in 1972. Champions Hawk Jrs!!

[@Michal103818]

CSSR had a good team at those times, we were World Champions in years 1972,76,77, in Insbruck 1976 half of CSSR team got flu so they did not manage more than olympic silver and we also won 1st match against this Canadian team. RIP Vladimir Dzurilla, we will never forget...

[@ThePiratebhoy]

Darryl had a good year in '76

[@tommyarmour986]

Props to the Czech team for taking this NHL line-up full of Hall of Famers deep into overtime. They were serious skaters.

[@FischerFan]

Start at 2:29 when Serge Savard starts the play and notice how all five Canadian skaters touch the puck with Sittler, of course, being the last!

[@Exotic3000]

I never get tired of watching this OT goal!

[@nsakic]

Who would've thought Peter Statsny, here playing for Czeckoslavakia, will play for Canada in this tournament 8 years later, and his Canadian-born sons will represent US in international hockey. He and his progeny have played for Czeckoslavakia, Canada, Slovakia, and USA.

[@tommyarmour986]

Yeah, I'm so glad I grew up playing in this era to watch the game expand and watch the NHL grow into a truly international sport.Today it's,by FAR, the Best,most talented league in all professional sports.

[@KsaundersPI]

beautiful goal darryl! Still is.

[@ajaxmaintenance3894]

I would argue that this 1976 Team Canada was as at least as good as the 1987 team. Lafleur, Hull, Orr, Esposito, Serge Savard, Sittler, Lanny McDonald, Denis Potvin, Lapointe, Perreault, Dionne, Clarke, Robinson, Gainey… holy moly!!

[@FischerFan]

I just know this team was clearly better than the one that faced the Soviets in '72. The Canada Cup team was absolutely stacked with hall-of-famers. This tournament was proof that the Hockey Canada made a mistake in prohibiting Bobby Hull from playing on the '72 team. Hull played a number of exhibition games against the Soviets when he played in the WHA, and he was as much a nightmare to Soviet netminders as Henderson was.

[@wobblertv8083]

Fair bit of talent that .😯

[@BBQFanNo1]

Although the best Russian players were missing from this Tourney, their Top Core Mikhailov,Petrov,Kharlamov,and the other did play these Czechs in the 1976 and 1977 World Championships and still lost against them. The only time the Soviet Union beat the Czechs in 1976 and 1977 in any Medal Round Match was in the 1976 Winter Olympics. This was about the best Czech National Team put together ever along with their 1998 Olympic Gold Medal winning Team.

[@MildlyAnnoyedAHM]

Orr. Perreault. Potvin. Sittler. McDonald. Martin. Dionne. Vachon. Savard. Robinson. Etc. Etc. My God! The memories! Absolutely the best there was and the best there ever will be!

[@FischerFan]

Lafleur, Esposito, Hull, Clarke, Barber, Shutt, P. Mahovlich. Most of that team is in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

[@PeterSdrolias]

Sittler was my hockey idol growing up. What a beauty!

[@johnziegelbauer4999]

Living in Niagara Falls we run into Marcel Dionne all the time , what a great guy ....

[@Lava1964]

Yes, indeed: Don Cherry advised the team that Dzurilla could be fooled by a fake shot--and he was. Don is a smart man.

[@paulshaw372]

The Czeck goalie came too far out trying to cut down the angle. Sittler was a goal scorer. He knew exactly what to do. And The Great Bobby Orr was named the MVP of this Series. Orr was well past his prime due to numerous knee injuries but Bobby Orr was better with one leg than most with 2. The guy was magical. he could and would kill a 2 minute penalty by himself. Bobby would rag the puck and dance around others with grace and ease. You really have to see what he could do. That Canada Cup Team had 18 Hall Of Famers on it. Im a Bruins fan but I love the game of Hockey everywhere. I did not realize that Dennis Potvin was the greatest at his craft in those days. I definitely have to google Potvin. I believe he played for Chicago. The Canada Cup was better than The Stanley Cup in those days

[@bashbrannigan]

That 76 Team Canada team was the greatest hockey team ever.

[@joeidaho5938]

I think I would agree, as compared to the 72 team. Both were great, but this one was just full of superstars.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Beautiful moves, goal, by Mr. Sittler 🍁🌲

[@pastorfergus]

+d2d4e6 The commentator (Ken Dryden) is referring to two disallowed goals by Canada. The first one was scored in the net which the Czechoslovakian player had just knocked off its posts deliberately (he got a penalty for this). The second was scored right at the 10 minute mark in the 1st OT period, which was being treated in this Tournament like the third period in international hockey, so the goal didn't count, as play stopped at the 10 min. mark to change sides.

[@quincee33]

i can't believe it was on CTV and not CBC.

[@nsakic]

i agree .. however, as those who where born in the 70s, we can't relate to this team. We can relate to 87 team. However, I do agree with you as the 76 team was the best - the sheer # of hall of famers on that team.

[@CanadaMMA]

When you put on a Team Canada Jeresy, it doesn't matter where in Canada you are from. They might hate a blue maple leaf, but they sure love the red one.

[@aai3661]

It's odd to me that such a large Canadian city like Toronto doesn't have an NHL team.

[@rgibbs4652]

With your big head and small brain it no wonder The leafs live in there rent free ! Go Leafs go ! Haaaa now thats funny

[@jeffclark7888]

Haaa!

[@jimmason1072]

Canada had some big name players on that team....

[@dougbrowne9890]

Were there any non-HOF'ers among that squad? What a great team.

[@ldhorricks]

@scottwill19 Did you actually watch the series...Dzurilla played a great tourney, I was at both final games...Dzurilla wasnt even supposed to be playing...he was a last minute replacement. Back then Czechoslovak players had full time day jobs and didnt earn hardly a Koruna from playing hockey. Dzurilla was a refrigerator repair man in real life. The CSSR teams werent like the Soviets with fulltime players and coaches...thats what makes his and his teams performance even greater Ty Vole!!...

[@elliekatt9740]

I don't think Darryl ever got a louder cheer in this building than he did when his name was announced as the goal scorer. Great video. Brings back memories. Hard to say if this was the greatest Canadian team ever... but you can certainly make the argument.

[@mikestevenson576]

I think '87 was a better team, but this was the most famous team. All three Bobbys!

[@elliekatt9740]

Gretzky Mario Bourque Messier Coffey power play...yeah that was a great team.

[@joeidaho5938]

As far as overall superstars, this was the greatest team, in my opinion...absolutely loaded with superstars. The 87 team, of course had that handful of great players.....with the Edmonton dynasty happening....but this team had so many great players from many teams. Boston was just coming down from it's stanley cup period and Montreal was winning cups every year. Toronto was also on the upswing.....and then there is Bobby Hull, of course and the players who had gone to the WHA. It was a great era in hockey. Perreault was also in his prime here, with Buffalo having a few real stars.

[@JamesCook-tj2fq]

This was my generations Hendersob

[@johncritch6812]

I see "Guy" out there. Godspeed.

[@landrykkb]

That was a super power team of players assembled for that era!!!I couldn't be bothered to compare any of the Canada Cup teams,although I remember 1987's well because I was 14 at the time and was more in awe of that team of Gretzky,Messier,Lemieux,Hawerchuk,Fuhr,etc.

[@fastfootedone]

'84 gets overlooked --- a team with Bossy, Trottier, Messier, Gretzky, Coffey, Potvin etc etc

[@brucemorton7787]

The beginning of this clip had LaFleur, Perreault, Bobby Hull, Orr, and Lapointe.... not too shabby.

[@FischerFan]

@@brucemorton7787 Had Rene Robert been added to this team; you probably would've had the top two or three lines in the game at the time stacking this team. You'd have had Buffalo's French Connection line, and the Flyers' L-C-B line.

[@jacktwokay]

can't imagine what it would've been like to see it there live

[@ldhorricks]

Prestne Tak Michale....Playing for the Soviet National Team was tantamount to be professional...they didnt work a day at anything else...they practiced and played hundreds of games together all year...The Czech teams always did remarkably well for the difficulties the National team had...thats why in the 60's and 70's Canadians always cheered for the Czechs against the Soviets...also because of what happened in 1968...I wish Czechs didnt hate Canadian Hockey so much now...its really sad.

[@chaseman12]

great goal

[@ldhorricks]

Dzurilla made his living as a electrical appliance repairman...all these players has regular day jobs to go to...they were not like the Soviets at all

[@CravoryShot]

lmao my that's the uncle of my friend who i've known since i was 6, sittler

[@lonehorseman09]

bernie pascall from all star wrestling.

[@daveni2]

can you believe thos names? watch after the goal, sittler, macdonald, Potvin, Orr, lafluer, esposito, savard, shutt that had to be the greatest team ever assembled, the ussr didn't send their best though i remember.

[@fastfootedone]

Hull, Dionne and Perreault weren't too shabby either.

[@RayJacksonbighmw]

What, no love for Rogie Vachon??? One of game's all-time great goaltenders with 3 Stanley Cups (with Montreal, 1968, 1969 and in 1971) and a Canada Cup winner (1976)??? HE TOO, is in the Hockey Hall Of Fame (inducted in 2016, and IMO should've been inducted into the HHOF decades ago!!!) and also proudly wore the #30 for my Los Angeles Kings from 1971-78, GO KINGS GO!!!

[@quincee33]

@BBQFanNo1 for sure, and they beat Canada 1-0 nothing in the round robin... they had 2 great goalies, Druzilla was the backup. Ivan Hlinka was the best or second best (jagr) Czech player of all-time!

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

Look at all those Hall of Famers!!!

[@BBQFanNo1]

This Czechoslovakia team would have never been blown out in the 1980 Winter Olympics 7-3 by the United States team. This team was a lot better than their Czechoslovakia 1979,1980 and 1981 teams. It is incredible that a European Country with much smaller population than the Soviet Union for talent to choose from could be so good.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

The game of the century.Czechoslovakia against the Soviet union in march 21th 1975 in Prag Czechoslovakia.Ccechoslakia beat the Soviets 9 goals to 3 goals.The goals scores that game.Czechoslovakia Ebermann 2 Jiri Holik 2 Marticec Hlinka Pouzar E.Novak Bubla and the soviets goals by Lyapkin Yakushev Petrov.What this the commentartor says 0.15 to 0.25.Two goals has been disallowed whos goalsCanada goals or Czechoslovakian goals??

[@goalieguy41]

to cut down the angle...when you do this you are hoping your defence will help

[@user-kk7xk6wc7r]

Харламовский гол красиво исполнено

[@nuckster94]

Wow 33 years ago already, time keeps on ticking......

[@Torontogal1973]

10year old post. time keeps on ticking.......

[@ThePiratebhoy]

Orr played on one leg dominated the games he played. Thats how good he was.

[@davidjorgensen877]

Yup, it capped a magnificent comeback that, sadly, was also the swan song of his all-too-brief career. The knee flared up again because of his MVP accomplishments in the series. After a couple of rehab-stunted seasons in Chicago, the greatest defenseman of all time called it a career after only a single brilliant decade. The '76 Canada Cup was truly the final display of the pure hockey brilliance that was Bobby Orr.

[@stevemmmm1341]

Sittler scores Canada wins 5-4 unreal in sudden death overtime 1976

[@Michal103818]

It was not Czech goalie, this guy was from Slovakia, his name is Vladimir Dzurilla, in the first match he shot out team of Canada with all the stars like Orr, Esposito, Hull, Sittler, Dionne, Potvin, Lafleur, Savard, Clarke.... This was a mistake, but in Slovakia, Dzurilla was chosen the best player of the century, ahead of Peter Stastny(who is on this footage as well, nobody knew in 1976, he will became a legend with Nordigues), Golonka, Bondra...

[@clubhouseme]

CTV must have done this game with Bernie Pascall doing the call.

[@PreacherAtArrakeen]

And yet, Toronto couldn't win the Stanley Cup if their lives depended on it! lol.... I got to go to one of the practices at the Montreal Forum for this season. Not as good as a game, but I still got to see the Canadian players in all their glory.

[@joestone8576]

man was that team loaded

[@chrisuncleahmad]

How come the Montreal Forum had advertisements on the boards back then for international tournaments, but not the NHL games?

[@edmourgagnon1504]

Maybe they had not thought about it yet!

[@DeathWish1974]

Don Cherry was the guy who told Sittler to fake the shot and get the goalie to commit and then....

[@bassiejazz]

From the bench?!?

[@MrKruger88]

No he did not. He told the entire team that the Czech goalie was playing way to far out, so if you could catch him out like that then you will be able to beat him with a sharp angle shot. Sittler used the fake shot to freeze the goalie in place, then took 2 more strides to get around him and shoot it into the open net.

[@goalieguy41]

@@MrKruger88 absolutely correct. Don was their eye in the sky so to speak

[@quincee33]

if you put the Czech Republic and Slovakia back together i would say they are slightly better than Sweden......does anyone else agree? imagine Zdeno Chara and Halak mixed with Czech players.

[@ohlalaale]

who cares?

[@malcolmclayton6651]

Don't find fault with yourself or others ,find a way to win.

[@BBQFanNo1]

i felt that the Czechoslovakia team during this period was as dangerous as the Soviet Union team. It is baffling how Sweden actually beat them 3-2 in this tournament because this period Czechoslovakia team played very well against the Soviet Union and Canada. i don't think they ever were the same for years after 1977 until the Winter Olympics team in 1998.

[@wilmanric1]

@ldhorricks Well said....

[@johncritch6812]

Long shift !

[@LegendofDelzaLol]

not entirely sure why the goalie came like a half mile out

[@ldhorricks]

Sorry I should have written Ceskoslovakian Teams...as it was Ceskoslovakia then...and yes Dzurilla was Slovak

[@JamesCook-tj2fq]

What the heck was the Czech goalie thinking?

[@goalieguy41]

its called cutting down the angle and hoping your defence helps

[@11leverhume]

as a leaf fan im so proud sittler scored that goal from macdonald....who was that weirdo standing beside trudeau?

[@11leverhume]

what cherry said was, the czech goalie committed too soon to coming out and therefore a fke shot would be too much for him to handle

[@junkboxxxxxx]

Rogatien le bonhomme

[@megaforcemedia]

The right defenceman on the Czech team screwed up by playing the puck.

[@karlcooper7016]

Why did the CZEK goalie come so far out? That was dumb.

[@gussideris7186]

Best teammates sittler and mc Donald...

[@brucemorton7787]

and Ballard traded both of them

[@September2004]

Wouldn't it have been more amazing if the goal had been scored by Bobby Hull with an assist from Bobby Orr? Two of the players who couldn't play in 1972?

[@ejomamma6234]

Yeah, you got that! Probably my two all time faves, well maybe Gretzky too, lol.......

[@lancelot1953]

It is a team effort - every player counts towards the same purpose. Whenever Orr started an deep offensive, his partner defense man (Lapointe, Savard, ...) would back him up, to prevent a break-away from the other team. Often also, when Orr would be in front of the opponents net, his wing or center would cover his position. That is how the team works. Hull was one of the most powerful player and had the fastest slapshot (at the time). His team mates would clear the area (open the space) so he could unleash the shots he was so famous for. Hockey is a great sport, enjoy! Ciao, L

[@September2004]

Ok... kinda missing the point here.

[@Pece17]

2:36 What the hell was that goalie thinking?! He basically gave that one as a gift!

[@LouSevijina]

coming out of his net to cut the angle of the shot down, unfortunately this tactic didn't work in this case

[@Pece17]

Drew P. Wiener Too much it would seem. He was way out! Also, it appears that goalies used to do this more often in the olden days as opposed to hockey nowadays when they rarely wander out of their nets.

[@LouSevijina]

Pece17 yeah, the many rule changes kind of made the tactic die down a bit, brodeur and luongo occasionally come out to the top of the crease to challenge a shot

[@Pece17]

Drew P. Wiener Though, one can argue whether it was a very good tactic from the beginning :)

[@phelimheming8593]

Pece17 This goalie had a great tournament. In Don Cherry's biog, he said that there was a meeting at the end of normal time with the Czech tender as the main subject. Cherry said that he had been a spotter and had noticed the goalie coming out too much and that it might be a good idea to take it round him. How true this is, I do not know.

[@daveni2]

would have been a good game but all these guys in their prime would have won.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

CZECHOSLOVAKIA SCORED 6 GOALS IN THIS GAME.TWO WERE DISALLOWED.IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GAME 3

[@jeffkeats4890]

It was Canada that had both goals disallowed. Both in overtime

[@Chrisman77]

Don cherry takes credit for sittlers move of faking the shot and going around... but how did the players not realise that in their own? Never understood how dzurilla could survive playing like that. One quick pass or a deke like in this case and ur dead meat every time. Ah well..we would have won anyway

[@diamonddog13]

Cherry is full of shit and just wants credit for anything since he never won anything.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

CZECHOSLOVAKIA SCORED 6 GOALS IN THIS GAME.TWO WERE DISALLOWED.IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GAME 3.CECHOSLOVAKIA WON THIS MATCH

[@fastfootedone]

snooze......Canada wins again ;-)

[@jeffkeats4890]

Canada had both goals disallowed not Czechoslovakia

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

GROUP GAME DZURILLA GOT A SHUTOUT AGAINST ORR LAFLEUR BOBBY HULL ESPOSITO SITTLER PERREAULT POTVIN LEACH.CZECHOSLOVAKIA WON GAME TWO 6GOALS TO 4.TWO GOALS WERE DISALLOVED.CANADA THE GREATEST TEAM EVER IN GROUP GAM ZERO GOALS.THE MOST AN AMAZING GAME EVER AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA WON.CZECHOSLOVAKIA BEAT CANADA IN 1976.THE BEST HOCKEY TEAM EVER CANADA LOST

[@MrKruger88]

You know, just because you use all caps doesn't make your bullshit true. You can try to slice it any way you want, but Canada always has been and always will be the greatest hockey nation. Cheers!

[@CountCristo729]

yeah but you were all pros disguised as amateurs

[@Michal103818]

You do not know much about hockey in CSSR in 1970-ties, do you? These guys all had jobs and got just ridiculous money for playing hockey after shifts at work...Orr alone had a few times higher monthly salary than all CSSR players together anually...that's fact...situation with CSKA in USSR was much different, they were army employees and just played hockey, they could be considered profesionals.

[@amirhomesrealtyinc5301]

Don cherry told sitler to make that move

[@quincee33]

Too bad Slovakia is it's on sovereign country..... If you put the Czech Republic players together with Slovakian they would be better than Sweden.

[@MrKruger88]

lol

[@The1Tarbender]

As great as this team was, I'd put Team Canada '87 up against these guys any day.

[@fastfootedone]

'87 had Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, but '76 had D-men like Orr, Potvin, Robinson and Savard.....tough to call.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

CANADA WAS NOT THE BEST TEAM IN 1972 OR 1976.CZECHOSLOVAKIA BEAT BOTH CANADA AND SOVIETS IN 1972 AND IN 1976.CZECHOSLOVIKIA SCORED 8 GOALS IN MOSCOW IN 1977 AGAINST THE SOVIETS.THE BEST TEAN EVER THAT CZECHOSLOVAKIA.THEY WERE WORLD CHAMPIONS IN 1972 AND 1976

[@fastfootedone]

I could have sworn Canada beat the Czechs for the Canada Cup in 1976.... will have to try and find video LOL

[@pastorfergus]

+d2d4e6 Actually, Canada and Czechoslovakia played to a 3-3 tie in 1972, in Czechoslovakia, just after Canada's gruelling 8 game series against the Soviets. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJfGg3uihayBqqM. Also, you're incorrect about 2 disallowed goals for Czechoslovakia in Game 2. The 2 disallowed goals were for CANADA. I gave the details in a comment above from 5 years ago. Canada certainly did lose 1-0 in the Preliminary Round, in what (I think) was one of the best games ever played. In Game 1 of the Finals the score was Canada 6, Czechoslovakia 0. And this game, of course, ended up 5-4.