MOSCOW, Sep 2 It would be interestingly, such an idea was 25 years ago, but then the North American National Hockey League refused, said Vladislav Tretyak, a participant in the 1972 super series, a member of the State Duma sports committee. Exactly 50 years ago, the legendary super series of the USSR — Canada began. Then the world saw it as a daring attempt by upstarts to fight the «hockey gods» of the NHL. The matches caused an unprecedented stir in the USSR. The USSR national team sensationally won the first game in Montreal — 7:3. The series consisted of eight matches, and according to its results, the USSR national team lost (three wins, four losses, one draw), but despite this, the world learned about the power of Soviet hockey. «I think that, of course, it would be interesting, Naturally, both Canadian fans and Russian fans,» Tretyak said. He noted that the 25th anniversary of the Super Series-72 was widely celebrated, «Stamps and dollars were issued in Canada, there were very big celebrations.» According to him, then the NHL abandoned the idea to repeat the series. «I turned to the president of the National Hockey League, Hockey Canada (Hockey Federation of Canada — ed.), even to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister said that it was interesting, but in the NHL «They said it's no longer interesting. Why? Because we have many Russian hockey players playing in the NHL. Why only with Russia? Finns, Swedes … play, Czechs. In general, they did not accept this idea, «Tretiak said.
