Summit Series: Members of the 1972 Team Canada Press Conference

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Summit Series, Paul Henderson, Ken Dryden and Serge Savard gathered at RS to reminisce about one of the defining events in Canadian Hockey history.
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[@discoveryman59]

Paul Henderson should be in the HHOF! You can make the argument that his play in 1972 he was the most important hockey player to wear a team Canada sweater EVER.

[@MrSteveBishop]

Exactly!!!

[@September2004]

Who gets in any Hof based on the performance in one tournament? Maybe the Dream Team but that team was never going to play together again and the rest of his career was not HoF worthy.

[@discoveryman59]

@@September2004 Why are people like Duke Keats, Moose Goheen, Phat Wilson or Fred Whitcroft. in the HHOF? Even Herb Brooks..

[@September2004]

@@discoveryman59 I don’t know who those guys are (then again there are lots of people who I don’t know) but in the case of Herb Brooks, didn’t he also have a notable college career as a coach?

[@joeidaho5938]

What is interesting here is how naive younger reporters are about the reality for NHL hockey players in the 60s and early 70s. It should have been stated that it's shameful how much money it takes to get to the NHL these days....and how much it costs to be a spectator.....dividing sport into the rich and poor in this country. I'm sure the players would clearly agree.

[@CodCats]

I used to play with Mcdavid as a kid and a few others like dermott, Mcdavid played a year up, but I remember having to go to you know, powerskating, checking clinics, off ice training etc that would cost tons of money per session! i did it for a bit while on those teams but unless you know you're going far it's insane money, let alone the travelling and focused 7 days a week. mcdavid was so focused on the play and game when we were little kids while everyone else was joking around on the bench, we always won 20-0 in year up tournaments too in the early days

[@Overtimewinner]

Greatest moment in Leafs history!!

[@dianadom4742]

Where's The Captain of The Team, Phil Esposito?

[@trevorwilliams7015]

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[@jeffreycairns767]

Yes it does

[@manyuogale4879]

Ken Dryden's response to the silly question regarding Phil Esposito was legendary: outwardly polite and respectful, with a well-deserved tinge of disdain. This is debatable, of course, but a case could be made that Esposito's performance in Game 8, especially the third (1G, 2A in the most pressure-packed environment imaginable) is the greatest performance, given the stakes and the history involved, by any North American team sport athlete in a single period or quarter of a championship game (or perhaps even the whole game itself).

[@PWS1717]

What a series..Thank you Team Canada!!

[@bigguygoogle457]

I'm sure all here have watched the series because of their age ( I was 11, a Bruins fan.) If you haven't, you can thankfully to you(tube..) The most on the edge of your seat hockey ever..Then the next series (76 and beyond) to come were absolutely fantastic..A must watch for both fans and audiences in general..The excitement, pride and comradery is exceptional...Can I say this, kudos to the players from Russia also beyond politics...They were amazing at their kraft...

[@bruce8321]

I watched all 4 games in Moscow at a little bar upstairs in the Royal York Hotel called Merry Mary's on one little colour TV sitting on a bar stool. You quickly learned to get there early and do not drink to much beer. If you had to go pee you would never get the stool back as it was packed solid. Little work got done that week. All my customers were watching so there was nobody to sell too.

[@huey166]

I love Paul Henderson, having to play with Montreal players. Go Leafs!