If Russian and Canadian hockey players meet on the ice, then the best poster for the match, it seems, can no longer be invented. USSR Super Series - Canada - an 8-game hockey series between the national teams of the Soviet Union and Canada. The legendary confrontation dates back to 1972, when for the first time professionals who came out of two completely different hockey schools collided on the ice arena... The confrontation - which no one doubted - was not only sports, but also ideological. At the same time, the importance of each match was so high that hockey fans who missed television broadcasts for some reason regretted it for years. Interesting moments from the history of the 1972 super series are recalled by Andrei Kolesnikov