Denmark conquered Canada. What are the biggest sensations in hockey history?
Stockholm. When Canadian hockey players left Stockholm on Wednesday, few doubted that they were two days back.
The quarter -finals in Herning against the Domestic Danes were supposed to be a short unplanned turn on the way to the World Championship title.
Canadians had to move to the second venue MS in hockey 2025 Despite winning the A-group. The fourths from the B-group Danes had a pre-guaranteed home environment.
Their quarterfinal victory 2: 1 over Canada will be one of the biggest surprises in the history of international hockey.
Sportnet offers short stories of the three largest sensations that took place on ice during the World Cup or the Winter Olympics.
Miracle on ice, Winter Olympic Games 1980
The match between the US and the Soviet Union in the final group at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid entered history as a miracle on ice (Miracle On Ice). It was not just a hockey event of the century (according to IIHF).
In the era of the Cold War, it meant much more. Both teams came against each other in a tense political situation, just a few weeks after the Soviet invasion to Afghanistan. The Soviets led by the legendary coach Viktor Tichonov at that time ruled world hockey.
Video: Last minute of USA – USSR at the Winter Olympics 1980
They triumphed at the World Cup 1979 on home ice when they won all nine matches with a score of 70:17.
The American selection was led by coach Herb Brooks. He shaped his for the Olympic tournament for a year and a half. He chose from several hundred adepts who completed the preparatory camps, where they underwent psychological tests.
The representation consisted of large rivals from university teams. Brooks united them – even against each other. The American team played 61 matches in preparation for the Olympic tournament. The last one in Madison Square Garden, New York, three days before the start of the Olympic tournament against the Soviet Union. The result? 3:10.
« We looked with them with hanging chins and open mouths. We had no idea they were so good, » Neal Broten recalled after years.
Two weeks later, both teams met again. « Great moments are born on great opportunities. And you have one such tonight, boys. If we played with them ten times, they will overcome us nine times. But not in this match! » He motivated his Brooks men.
The Americans surprised the favorite opponent from the beginning with an aggressive game and an active attack, but the Soviets in the first period twice led the goal and seemed to be a matter of time when they break American resistance.
But in the last seconds of the first act of Dave Christian, a light puck has thrown away from behind the red line, which only set out in front of him.
A pair of Soviet defenders seem to have been waiting for the siren, Mark Johnson fell off and equalized.
Coach Tichonov replaced Vladislav Treťjak in the goal, replaced by Myškin. Tichonov later claimed that Soviet officials were instructed to alternate a third -sovat and apologized for Trijak.
The Soviets led again in the match (3: 2), but in the third act there was an American fitness. The goals of Johnson and Captain Mike Eruzione turned the score.
« For the first time I saw the Soviets as they fell panic. They just cast the puck in advance, hoping that he would find someone there, » Jim Craig recalled.
The surprised favorite could not shoot seven minutes in the third act on the goal. The Soviets did not even withdraw the goalkeeper. They reportedly did not even exercise this possibility in trainings, Nichonov did not believe her.
« Eleven seconds. We are already counting down the last ten. Five seconds to the end of the match! Do you believe in miracles? Yes! » The commentator Al Michaels was screaming.
The Americans also overcame Finland in the last match of the final group and celebrated sensational gold.
Shock in Katowice, World Championship 1976
Ten thousand people were crowded in Katowická Hall Podek on April 8, 1976. None of them even thought they were singing Dabrow Mazurk at the end of the match.
The Polish hockey team has previously lost all 25 matches with Soviets. Just two months before the World Championship was held, the Zborná loaded Poliak on the way to the Olympic gold in Innsbruck 16: 1. At the World Championship 1973, the Poles suffered a record loss with Soviets – 0:20.
Television broadcasted a hockey match in Katowice only from the record – fear that the viewers are coming on the ice of the Soviets.
Until 1989, Poland was part of the socialist camp until 1989 and worked according to orders from Moscow. The fans in the podk lobby had to wipe their eyes from astonishment.
Video: Match Poland – USSR to World Championship 1976
Home hockey players led after the first period 2: 0 after the goals of Jaskierský and Nowinski. Also thanks to the goalkeeper Andrzej Tkacz pulled out great interventions.
However, his goalie art would not be enough for that evening if another hero – striker Wiesław Jobczyk, author of the hetrika, did not skate in the Polish jersey.
It was only when the Poles increased to 4: 1, the coach of the Soviet team Boris Kulagin sent Vladislav Tripojak’s goal instead of Alexander Sidnik. But that did not help either.
« It was only after my last 6: 3 goal.
The goal of Boris Mikhajlova at 6: 4 in the last minute no longer perceived the hall in the pool.
« It was hard for us to believe what we achieved. When the anthem was, the Russians stood for the first time with our heads hung. Until then, they always looked at us with almost anthem with respect. Certainly there were better players.
Ice hockey was the second most popular collective sport after football in Poland. After the victory over the Soviets, the Polish political authorities promised a small car hockey player Fiat.
Players have already been in the factory in the factory to choose cars according to color. The condition was that Poland to stay among the elite. He missed 21 seconds. In the group to maintain the West Germany 1: 2.
In that year the last two teams dropped out and although the Poles won a record eight points at the championship, they finished 7th, before the GDR. Instead of the car, hockey players got at least a watch. The world champion became Czechoslovakia.
Bad Dream Tommy Sala, Winter Olympics 2002
The Swedish hockey team showed great hockey at the Olympic Tournament in Salt Lake City. For the second time in history, NHL players also played under five circles and the tournament on the American continent attracted great attention.
In the basic group Severians conquered strong Canada, the Czech Republic and the Germans gave 7: 1. In the quarterfinals they came against Belarus, which was in this duel in the position of a clear outsider.
The Swedes with Captain Mats Sundin from Toronto Maple Leafs and 18 NHL players in the line -up shot 21: 8 in the first period, but they lost 1: 2. The Belarusians also led 3: 2, Sundin equalized in the third period. And then something happened to this day in the dreams of goalkeeper Tommy Sala.
Defender Vladimir kicking in 58 minutes passed the red line and fired the puck on the Swedish goal. Salo drove it with a catch, but hit him in the mask and fell behind him and rolled behind the line.
« If I said I wanted to score this goal, no one would believe me. I just shot the red black, nothing more, » Kopat explained to the journalists through an interpreter. Belarusians have already maintained the lead and eliminated the favorite.
Video: Swedish match – Belarus at the 2002 Winter Winter Olympics
« Sometimes he also shoots a gun without charges, » said Belarusian goalkeeper Andrej Mezin. « That was we today, » he added.
Mesin showed 44 interventions in the match. At that time he caught Berlin Capitals in Germany. For five years, he tried to fight for the NHL in the overseas, when he did not work out, he went to Europe.
« I think it’s incredible, » quoted Los Aneles Times Ruslan Salej, the only Belarusian in the NHL (Anaheim Mighty Ducks). The Belarusians reached their ceiling with this victory, and fourth finished in the tournament.
« It is overwhelming for us and our country. Such things happen … every two decades, or somehow, » said Swedish striker Markus Näslund. But the sad hero of the match was Tommy Salo.
« Until then, we played good hockey. But in the quarterfinals we failed everything. We played at eleven in the morning and our brains never took over. We played as in a slowed film, » he said with a distance of 20 years for Aftonbladet. He wrote the book « My Life under the Mask », in which he also touched on a bad match.
He claims that he was faced with remorse from Captain Sundin, who then told him he was just joking. « I didn’t feel like he’s just joked, and I didn’t find anything funny about it anyway. At that moment it touched me, » Salo says in the autobiography.
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