MOSCOW, Sep 21, Andrey Senchenko. President of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF) and the famous Soviet goalkeeper Vladislav Tretyak recalled moments of meetings with Canadian hockey players in the 1972 Super Series. According to Tretyak, after the first of eight matches in the series, Canadians began to respect Soviet hockey players. «But the great Anatoly Tarasov did everything to ensure that those games of the Super Series took place, and the Canadians found out about us. Then we opened a window to North America. The Canadians did not want to say hello to us, but after the first full-time match everything changed. We were respected, everyone wanted to join us take a picture,» Tretyak said during a press conference in Moscow. He also added that the 1972 Super Series is similar to Yuri Gagarin's flight into space in its significance for Russian sports. e 50 years, but everyone remembers those matches. And they will remember how the flight of Yuri Gagarin. We represented all of Europe. That Super Series played a big role — hockey has changed a lot. The Canadians adopted the European style, we learned from the Canadians,» Tretyak said.
