Frank Mahovlich - 1972 Summit Series Game 2, Goal 5

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[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

As an American, I am so happy to have been able to have watched this series (lived just across the border, and got the CBC broadcast). Canadians have every right to be proud of their team in this series!! Beating the Soviets in any sport just made my day!!!

[@Lava1964]

The broadcasts were split between CTV and CBC.

[@stumarston6812]

1:12 That's Cornyouer shooting it from center and then that's him about 3 seconds later with the puck in the corner. Holy crap was he quick.

[@dinojay8410]

The Roadrunner.

[@davidbradshaw3107]

Pete's one of the greatest goals of all time.

[@jamesanthony5681]

Frank Mahovlich may have been the most exciting Leaf player of all time, with those long strides and that speed coming down the left wing.

[@stumarston6812]

Leave it to the Leafs to totally screw up a great player.

[@my3dviews]

He was with Montreal at the time of the Summit Series in '72.

[@34Packardphaeton]

We can be very sure that, of all the players for Canada, none more than Stan Mikita must have loved beating those Rooskies. He made the play here, perfectly feeding F. M..

[@mrktyb]

This is not true. the pass was very very very far from perfect.

[@34Packardphaeton]

@Dave Clifford ... Obviously, he didn't remember much at 2 yrs. old.... but surely he knew the history... later... as an adult

[@hollywoodjoe123]

FRANK MAHOVLICH and his brother PETER both scored goals in game 2 - 1972 Summit series in Moscow !

[@charlesdansereau-menard3347]

Game 2 was at Maple Leafs Garden, in Toronto.

[@donhuber9131]

@@charlesdansereau-menard3347 Wonderful to hear the crowd in Toronto cheer The Big M's goal. Imlach treated him horribly.

[@theretiringbarber]

My favorite player .

[@Forza8423]

Bästa laget var Sovjet, Kanada spelade fult bara, så typiskt på den tiden

[@Classicrocker6119]

The Big “M” was my very first favourite player when I started following the NHL as a nine year old halfway through the 1970-71 season. He got traded from Detroit that year to Montreal and helped the Habs to their Stanley Cup victory.

[@mrktyb]

me too !

[@34Packardphaeton]

Trust me: nobody wants to score goals against the Russians like the Czech, Mikita; and the two Croats, the Mahovlich brothers.

[@stanislavdermek4982]

Stan Mikita was Slovak Canadian not Czech.

[@garyknowles8378]

Yvon Cornoyer. I think Yvan didn’t care. He was a missile. Show him paydirt and he found it. Immensely important to Montreals success.

[@christrudell7966]

THE BIG M

[@casparuskruger4807]

Great work by Stan the Man on this one! But man oh man, even the Russians look slow.

[@fleurafricaine5740]

That’s a nice Frank Mahovlich goal. Makita was a good match-up vs cccp because he knew them, despised them and cursed them in Russian on & off the ice. And Mikita showed tremendous skill and patience controlling the puck against the cccp. Sindon should have kept him in the lineup.

[@waltermameli2026]

Mikita to Frank Mahovlich...back of the net...that is how you do that...

[@mrktyb]

well Mahovlich was what he was, but he rarely missed a chance. Here the pass was not perfect but he controlled the puck. A true sniper.

[@408Magenta]

Frank gets grade "C" for being on the ice.

[@prun8893]

I don't know who that Corney, A. kid is, but he's pretty fast.

[@jmulchino]

Bill Hewitt could never pronounce Yvan Cournoyer. He always called him “Ca-nor’-ee-eh”

[@jamesanthony5681]

Sorry, was that Bill Hewitt or Foster Hewitt calling the play-by-play?

[@eddiefaccioni2453]

@@jamesanthony5681 Foster Hewitt. I remember a political cartoon where Foster pronounces all the Russian names perfectly but can't get Cournoyer's name right.

[@jamesanthony5681]

@@eddiefaccioni2453 That's funny! It must be genetic, as Bill Hewitt called Dino Cicarelli, 'sick-a-relly.'

[@Lava1964]

It came out as "corn wire" a few times during the series.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

❤🤍 🇨🇦

[@curtgottler9961]

I always felt Mahovlich was overrated. He didn"t work that hard, in this series he often threw the puck away and was not aggressive at all.

[@dinojay8410]

Must be a Maple Leafs fan.

[@robertl8481]

Foster Hewitt couldn't be bothered to pronounce anyone's name properly. Apparently his play by play in radio was entirely fictional as no one who listened and who were at the game saw anything he described he built up the Leafs and made it sound they were dominating every shift and if the opposition scored it was a fluke.

[@Lava1964]

Yes! My grandfather and a buddy from work watched a Saturday game at Maple Leaf Gardens in the 1930s. It was terribly dull and they left the game early. On Monday at his place of work, everyone was pestering the two of them for more details about the exciting game that they heard Foster Hewitt describe. From that point onward, my grandfather would not trust radio announcers' versions of sports events.

[@billyrock8305]

Frank was one weird dude. 😬 The Big M was probably the worst player in the ice. He sucked! 🤮