1980 03 Jan Superseries 1979 80 Buffalo Sabres vs Red Army

[@searchforthestrangler5034]

For Soviet hockey teams playing the Buffalo Sabres was a nightmare in The Auditorium in Buffalo. The Sabres were really talented from 1975 and the early eighties. One of those terrific teams that didn't win a Stanley Cup. What a great crowd that night in Buffalo to cheer the Sabres as they wasted Tretiak and the so formidable Red Army team. Loved watching this classic.

[@antoniosciara7322]

Different teams. The '75 game was the Soviet Wings, not Red Army

[@pullthetrigger9158]

Can't thank you enough. Was a Sabres game goer during this time. Don't know if the season tickets covered the Russia games, but I was school aged and I think the games were played during day time hours. Sweet memories of my Father. Great distraction from the rage I feel towards today's infant/feminine "society". Not civilized, but domesticated. We over did our loved ones "safe space". Reality eludes them. Spasibo, khoroshaya igra. Thank you for the game. Happy New Year

[@godsavenger5599]

The Buffalo Sabres was the only team Soviet teams couldn't beat. It's amazing this Buffalo team never won a Stanley Cup.

[@larrygolaszewski2389]

Great memories. I was at this one. Amazing how small the goalies look compared to today.

[@user-bm6cm4ii3m]

..."and what a game it was''... Happy rural residents

[@rufus2731]

I watched this game live on tv. USSR national tv! :D Loved it!

[@searchforthestrangler5034]

I love the Sabres. The Soviets always met their match playing them.

[@barbaradarnell.3802]

Great call on the Don Luce shorthanded goal by Bernie Pascal!

[@buddha7178]

That backhand was a lazer

[@hollywoodjoe123]

wow - 6 to 1 - - BUFFALO SABRES beat the Red Army - and the last goal at 5 seconds left !

[@buddha7178]

Edwards snd Sauve were at the top of their games in 1980

[@radioman6489]

Great Game

[@Michaelbos]

The days when goalies mostly played on their skates.

[@gibby100]

interesting the Sabres were wearing their road uniforms at home and also the advertising on the boards back then.

[@akbarmahamadjanov3167]

Its o.k

[@JOHNWLOUCKS]

And no idiotic fans pounding on the glass.

[@chuckshuldiner2649]

Очень хороший матч. Ещё больше мне счёт нравится. GO CANADA GO

[@user-mz9it4op8r]

Побеждены,но не сломлены..В следующих играх наши побеждали и канадцев и американцев с таким же разгромным счётом и не раз!Смотрю не первый раз,все игры того времени доставляют истинное удовольствие...

[@BBQFanNo1]

Национальные хоккейные клубы СССР и клуб Советской лиги Московской Красной Армии на протяжении 35 лет с 1956 по 1991 год входили в число лучших спортивных команд в мировой истории. Если вы сыграете против них 10 раз в любой серии, они всегда выиграют большинство игр в течение этого 35-летнего периода. 8-я серия встреч на высшем уровне 1972 года была одним из очень редких матчей с 1956 по 1991 год, когда Национальный хоккейный клуб СССР проиграл Международную хоккейную серию.

[@garbageday587]

79-80 was the beginning of players wearing helmets and advertising on the boards. Buffalo was an awesome team in the 70's till mid 80's. As a Quebecer my favorite team should have be Montreal but it was the Sabres instead . Tretiak was unbelievably weak in this game I suppose all good players have their share of bad days.

[@miskwaad]

Being on the road on the small rinks of the NHL affected them. The Aud was also smaller than an ordinary NHL rink..I think only 196 feet. The game is completely different and skating means much more.

[@drobson8004]

Why does skating mean much more on a small rink?

[@miskwaad]

It means more on a larger rink. Olympic rinks..non NHL..are 60 meters by 30 meters. Nearly as long but fourteen feet wider. The neutral zone is eight feet longer. The nets are further out from the end boards (two feet). Having played on both surfaces the extra room changes the game for speed, especially on the outside. As a defenseman, intelligence and speed mean more as you're more vulnerable to breakouts.

[@glen6945]

2 VERY GOOD HOCKEY TEAMS

[@BudSchnelker]

I wonder if Herb Brooks took a long look at the tape of this game?

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Soviet league goal scoring leaders were in 1980 Shalimov 34 goals Drotzdetzky 31 Varnakov 30 Priodin 27 Lavrentjev 27 they did not played in 1980 olympics! Canada have 650000 hockey players today! USA have 500000 hockey players today! Ovechkin's Russia have only 80000 hockey players today! Canada and USA should have 15 guys who have scored over 800 goals like Ovechkin today! USA had More Ice rinks and hockey players than Russia in 1980! The Hard truth is that Soviets could score 6,5 goals against young USA! In 1980 two games 10-3 3-4 and Good will games in 1990 10-3 3-3 and Calgary olympics 1988 7-5! Soviets scored 6,8 goals against us Finland 1970-1980 and we Finland were trash because only 21 ice rinks buildings!, Today Finland is power house hockey team because today we have 274 ice rinks! Tv ratings young USA vs Soviet 34 million in 1980! Baseball world Series drew 54 million tv watchers! Super bowl drew 82 million tv ratings!! How low you can get when slow boring baseball had two times bigger tv ratings than hockey game!!

[@buffalobraves9]

Don Edwards was the MVP, he was brilliant.

[@buddha7178]

Cool n collected like another day at the office

[@billbauer9861]

Leather pads and a jofa cage helmet. The apple does not fall very far from the Tree... Coach Bauer.

[@glen6945]

BUFFALO SABRES-RULE

[@garbageday587]

At the time yes

[@jimmypye4460]

Tretiak and the Soviets could not handle the well coached Buffalo Sabres. I think the Soviets now know what it was like in CC 1981 when Mike Liut couldn'st stop a beach ball.

[@procyonant6805]

Bowman's decision is still unclear. Don Edwards confidently played in this match and in the round robin of the Canadian Cup

[@karilentz5000]

The 6-1 score was misleading because the Soviets showed good skill and effort but just had a bad day.

[@garbageday587]

Thanks for ruining my watch of the game by telling the score 😠

[@jimturner4937]

@@procyonant6805 I saw some interviews from players on that team in 81. A few players were very critical of Bowman's managing of the team. One said the practices were poor. One other player said the travel schedule was butchered Bowman wasn't organized. These were credible interviews with credible players. The Liut decision would corroborate those interviews.

[@buddha7178]

The soviet giveaway on the 4th Buffalo goal had him sent to Siberia

[@user-bm6cm4ii3m]

That was the funniest.. joke I've ever heard, yo. u have an excellent sense of buffalo and erie county humor

[@allenrappaport2595]

Man red army just stopped playing after 3-1.

[@Fehrman21114]

Great to see Donnie Edwards outplay Tretiak. That must have made his day to outplay one of the "premier" goaltenders in the world.

[@user-fu8qb1um8y]

Thanks a lot for the video!Soviet Hockey till 1989 was the best in the world!!!!Tarasov,Tichonov,Michaylov,Harlamov,Balderis,Krutov,Makarov,Tretiak and many,many others...Понятно,что мотивация была своя"Советская",понятно,что "жили на сборах" и "чувствовали партнера",как себя.Также понятно,что после открытия занавеса в NHL все стало заканчиваться(причем обвинять русских парней в том,что они захотели много денег и примкнули к бывшим соперникам,наверное,неправильно)и победы,и гордость,и Советский(не Российский,его так и не стало)хоккей(((

[@user-hx5je7pf8m]

Не беда! Победил сильнейший) Получили урок, в дальнейшем - преподали

[@user-hv1bh4wj8u]

На здоровье! Приезжайте ещё в Баффало - главным спецам по совковым клубам. Настоящие терминаторы!

[@Johnjohn-gq3du]

Jerry Korab obviously despised communism.

[@ogenryvgb753]

Харламов бледная тень самого себя в этой игре

[@anonnomus6070]

10:09 Buffalo 1-0. 24:51 Buffalo 2-0. 1:28:03 Red Army 1-2. 1:30:46 Buffalo 3-1. 1:39:59 Buffalo 4-1. 1:42:14 Buffalo 5-1. 1:48:16 Buffalo 6-1.

[@quentin3330]

Does anyone know Scotty Bowman's record vs Soviet/Russian teams? just wondering. ...

[@Andyvas375]

0-6 in 1979 and 1-8 in 1981. I suppose it was a record for him

[@quentin3330]

Huh? he won this game 6-1 and tied on New years Eve when he coached Montreal 3-3. You forgot those 2 games.

[@Andyvas375]

They(those 2 games) weren't a record. But 0-6 and 1-8 were. No? May be I misunderstand word " record"

[@quentin3330]

oh my apologies. . misunderstanding, no record meaning head to head..like all time record of wins, losses, ties.Basically I'm asking what was Scotty Bowman's record head to head.

[@jimmypye4460]

@@Andyvas375 Bowman was unlucky in 81, with Canadian goalie Mike Liut play terribly. Just like Tretiak in this game. It happens. Same thing happened in 79 challenge cup. Dryden and Cheevers played terrible goalie. But Canadians didn't make good technical choices on some players, sometimes popularity versus technical ability. For example in 1979 Bill Smith would have been a far better choice over Cheevers and Dryden. Don Edwards was the Vezina winer that year and never got selected to be NHL goalie against Soviets. Bad choices based on popularity.

[@rasheedsharipov3941]

Сборная СССР проигрывает Баффало Сэйбрс 1-6.

[@user-wy8sj3ed3f]

Если к ЦСКА добавили тройку горьковчан ,это ,ещё,не.сборная.А плохие матчи бывают и у сборных

[@user-hv1bh4wj8u]

Ага, ага! Надрали как щенят! Молодцы!

[@anonnomus6070]

I wonder if Buffalo's smaller ice rink, screwed up the Soviets in 1976 and in this game. From the blue line to the blue line, in the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, was shorter than most rinks, if not all ice rinks.

[@gibby100]

Boston’s as well

[@user-gv5yr6ms5d]

1980 год, похоже, худший в истории советского хоккея. И начался он некрасиво.

[@godsavenger5599]

The Sabres in an 8 game series against the Soviets would have won easier than Team Canada did. They were a fast, and very talented team, and the Soviets had a hard time containing them. The Soviets were an awesome team, but I believe the Sabres overall were a better team. They definitely had a better goalie than Team Canada did.

[@godsavenger5599]

Absolutely correct! The Soviets could never beat the Sabres. The Red Army was a great team, but I believe the Sabres would beat them in an 8 game series easier than Team Canada did, and yes Edwards was a far superior goalie than Dryden.

[@user-bm6cm4ii3m]

@@godsavenger5599 What's up with part 3, yo?!

[@BBQFanNo1]

@@godsavenger5599 Edwards and the Best Players on the Sabres Team were All Canadian.

[@quentinraffensperger1699]

Ya and Dryden never played well vs. the Soviets. Habs 3 Red Army 3 on new years eve was a great game but Tretiak had to make double if not triple the amount of saves as Ken Dryden.

[@BBQFanNo1]

+Quentin Raffensperger Exactly. Montreal Rookie Goaltender Sevigny shut the same guys down to 2 goals 4 years later helping Montreal win 4-2. i read the reason that Dryden wasn't added to the 1976 Canada Cup team was because of his sieve performance against the Red Army blowing Montreal's 3-1 lead.

[@BBQFanNo1]

+Quentin Raffensperger Dryden also blew the lead for the NHL in the 2nd Challenge Cup Game in 1979 giving up 3 shitty goals again against the Russians. Dryden and Cheevers always sucked against the Soviets

[@quentinraffensperger1699]

***** thx, I forget, ws it Rogie Vachon in 76 vs. Czechoslovakia?

[@aholli8748]

Excuse me, but what BS! NHL All-Stars blew the lead themselves, because they couldn't create much offense at all especially later in the game. And they shouldn't have been ahead in the first place, it's just that Tretiak was awful in the game, as he faced only 16 shots and yet gave up 4 goals (Dryden faced 31, let in 5). In fact, coach Tikhonov was so unhappy with Tretiak's performance that he put a newcomer like Myshkin in goal for game 3 (and he recorded a shutout, hah!). USSR certainly did have any advantage in goal in game 2 of the Challenge Cup. And BTW, Cheevers didn't suck in the 1974 Summit Series between the Soviet national team and WHA's Team Canada at all, quite the contrary.

[@aholli8748]

Well, I've read that Dryden was injured, and thus didn't play at the 1976 Canada Cup. Sounds much more believable, as far as I'm concerned.

[@tommygunn1022]

Where was Kapustin?

[@user-je5yb8gq9y]

He was at home ,because of injury , from the same reason he was out of squad at Lake Placid Olympics .

[@vrokhlenko]

Remember was watching that game as a kid and crying from joy. Boy I hated those 'amateurs'. On top of that it was not the Red Army team - it was fortified with the three forwards from Torpedo Gorky. They added some 'civilians' to help out. Did not work. I read that Don Edwards claimed that he was set to prove that the Canadian way of life was better. And he did!

[@ragnarjonsson1122]

Not a great evening for Tretiak

[@aholli8748]

Understatement of the year :D Seriously, there are at least 3 goals that are scored from anywhere else but a prime scoring area. People tend to badmouth Ken Dryden vs the Soviets (see e.g. the comments below), but when did he ever play this badly? Tretiak was a great goalie and had many legendary performances, but he had his fair share of awful games too. Like the 1979 Challenge Cup, USSR won that in spite of Tretiak, not because of him.

[@jimturner4937]

@@aholli8748 I saw the comments about Dryden. Let's be honest, Dryden never had even one good game against the Soviets. Not one. He was way over rated as a goalie. He stood out only because he had the Montreal Canadiens in front of him. There were far better choices available. Villemure, Vachon, Edwards were all much better goalies. Roy Edwards isn't well known but he was spectactular that year. He had a great GAA even though he was on a fairly mediocre team.

[@amholli9616]

@@jimturner4937 What was wrong with Dryden in game 6 of the 1972 Summit Series? Or in game 1 of the 1979 Challenge Cup? I fail to see it. Tretiak certainly wasn't any better in game 2 of the Challenge Cup either, like said. And it was Tretiak who let in 3 goals (Dryden zero) in the 3rd period of game 8 in the 1972 series, and so Team Canada won. And if Vachon was a "much better" goalie than Dryden, why didn't he become the Habs' #1 goalie in the 1970s? Re-writing the history a little bit?

[@user-bm6cm4ii3m]

@@jimturner4937 That's alright, Jimmy. Dryden WAS(!) A COLANDER

[@BBQFanNo1]

The Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres in this Super Series along with Team USA in the 1980 Olympics proved that the HC CSKA Moscow Team could be beaten playing clean without the dirty garbage that Bobby Clarke did to Valeri Kharlamov in the 1972 Summit Series and Ed Van Impe did to Valeri Kharlamov in the Super Series 1976 against the Philadelphia Flyers.

[@nataliaoleksander6386]

The Van Impe hit was a legal and clean hit from what I recall. I was young then, but eve watching recorded game it seems the hit was legitimate. I think if you watch that game, it is more about the Flyers checking the Soviets very closely and stymieing their free wheeling skating game is why they lost. They couldn't move very far without being checked.

[@user-bm6cm4ii3m]

@@nataliaoleksander6386 you ARE(!) crazy woman, Natasha!

[@nataliaoleksander6386]

@@user-bm6cm4ii3m Why? Physical checking is part of good hockey. Not the soviet stick work . Like we see right now Russians are cheaters and whiners and they can get out of my country now. Your government is killing tens of thousands of Ukrainians. Yes I am Ukrainian.

[@roberthuot7887]

Never seen tretiak look so awful. Buffalo had their # in this game.

[@zipoman77]

Have not see any NHL team playing on USSR soil.

[@BBQFanNo1]

Actually a Team of Canadian NHL Players nearly 50 years ago already played 4 Games on USSR soil in 1972.

[@BBQFanNo1]

Монреаль Канадиенс и Баффало Сэйбрз в этой суперсерии вместе с командой США на Олимпийских играх 1980 года доказали, что московская команда ХК ЦСКА может быть обыграна, играя чисто, без того грязного мусора, который Бобби Кларк сделал с Валерием Харламовым в серии саммитов 1972 года и Эдом Ван Импом. сделал Валерий Харламов в суперсерии 1976 года против Филадельфии Флайерз.

[@Andyvas375]

Man, don’t use google translator

[@user-hv1bh4wj8u]

Да нормально там всё было! "Кони" просто струсили и закатили истерику!

[@trud2003]

@@user-hv1bh4wj8u смотри не обосрись от ненависти...

[@user-hv1bh4wj8u]

@@trud2003 Отдыхай, малолетка! Рано тебе ещё сюда, школота!

[@robertyoung3992]

Sabres definition of detant ,make Soviet faces redder then their uniforms

[@user-bo4ue1zy2s]

это позорнее чем у "Крылышек" в 1976м: тогда счёт быв 2 раза, в данном случае в 6 раз

[@user-fw6gl7kv8l]

Ошибок детских наделали, просто ужас. Похоже акклиматизация повлияла.

[@Konstantin_Terletskiy]

Так и в матче с Монреаль Канадиенс то же самое. Ошибки детские в защите. Причины трудно назвать. Ну что ж, это спорт, всякое бывает

[@hard8994]

Неужели не понятно, что это была установка партии. Если бы у ребят были "развязаны" руки счет уже в первом периоде был бы как минимум 10:0 в нашу пользу.

[@jimmypye4460]

@@hard8994 Советы были не так хороши, как утверждали. Это доказательство.

[@jimmypye4460]

@@hard8994 что? Вы живете в мире снов? Когда советские играют против хороших команд НХЛ, которые вместе и знакомы, у них нет шансов. Запад лучше

[@user-hv1bh4wj8u]

Хм... Плохому танцору... Как всегда, короче. А к судьям претензий нет? Или ещё к чему?

[@dmitriynaik5265]

нелжиданно ,третьяк подвел

[@jimmypye4460]

Soviets, despite all of their playing together, superior conditioning, could not defeat the best NHL teams. This is an example of how the NHL teams destroyed Soviet team easily. Only Soviet can win against amateurs, or weak teams that did not play together much.

[@jalachkasascha]

So stupid 😂😁foolish man.

[@BBQFanNo1]

The USSR National Hockey Clubs and Soviet League Moscow Red Army Club for 35 years from 1956 to 1991 were among the best Sports Teams in World History. If you played against them 10 times in any series they would always win most of the games during that 35 year period. The 8 Game 1972 Summit Series was one of the very rare match ups 1956 to 1991 that the USSR National Hockey Club lost an International Hockey Series .

[@user-bm6cm4ii3m]

What does IT FEEL like to be brainless... jimmy?

[@user-fu8qb1um8y]

Вроде не так давно было(относительно),а качество говно

[@user-up2qt2uv5d]

What if it was possible to take drug (doping test) of NHL players at that time?

[@buddha7178]

Lol. 1970s NHL hockey was a drinking culture

[@dmitriynaik5265]

Позор!!!

[@user-je5yb8gq9y]

У каждой команды бывают провалы - таким провалом и был для ЦСКА этот матч . В команде шел процесс смены поколений , поколение Михайлова , Петрова , Харламова , уже сдавало свои позиции , поколение Фетисова , Макарова , Крутова еще не вышло на пик своей формы .

[@user-hv1bh4wj8u]

@@user-je5yb8gq9y Blahblahblahblah... Плохому танцору...! Молодцы канадцы!

[@user-je5yb8gq9y]

They could handle , but not at that day -it wasn't the CSKA 's day - the team was at process of generation's replacement at that time . If the game would took place two years later - it would be quite another game , and soviet players would be far more better played on this occasion - THAT IS IT .

[@jimturner4937]

Win with honor! Lose with honor. Soviets had bad game like Liut had horrible game in 81. It happens in sport.

[@nataliaoleksander6386]

I'm Ukrainian & feel embarrassment when Russian fans behave dishonorably when they lose. Canadian people took great effort to replicate Canada Cup for the Soviet Team in 81. They accepted their defeat with honor. It's not same for Soviets. Of course now we have a Dictator in Moscow who is provoking a cold war and authorizing cyber attacks on the West and murders of his opponents in Russia.

[@alco3943]

This is a box for boxing, not for hockey. Soviet hockey is the best hockey in the world for all time!

[@clubhouseme]

CANADA

[@jimmypye4460]

Spread your propaganda in the Soviet Union you idiot. We will not listen to your lies and nonsense. The Sabres embarrassed the Soviet National team because they are on the same playing field -- a team together and familiar with each other, not cobbled together three weeks before the tournament. Swallow Soviet Bitch!

[@daved1535]

Not on that day they weren't. I believe the Sabres beat the Red Army again in 1989, 6-5 in overtime to take the friendship series for the NHL

[@jimturner4937]

@@jimmypye4460 Were you having a bad day. I agree that the Sabres humiliated the Soviet team, but I don't think it is called for to call others names like bitch. You're point is a good one. If the Soviets were as superior and dominant as they would have everyone believe they would not lose to an average NHL team by this score, and only a few short months later they would be defeated by a bunch of college kids.

[@basilcarroll9729]

Soviet referee .