Canada Cup 1976
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Actor: Canada Cup 1976DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Limited Edition, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Video Service Corp
Movie Reviews of Canada Cup 1976
Movie Review: Good entertainment
Summary: 4 Stars
Yes, the video and audio quality is degraded and there are gaps, but none that are too obvious.
Either the original video direction was quite bad, or the current editors used play break footage (of takes of pretty girls or dignitaries) to cover up gaps or bad video sections in gameplay footage.
Having said that, most of the series was very entertaining... except for the Canada-Sweden game, which was a real snorer(I literally fell asleep twice while trying to get through that game). The late game action in the 2nd Czech game was as good as it gets.
This was Bobby Orr's swansong appearance, and there are a number of glimpses of his greatness... as one of the players said of his performance in the series; "He played better on one leg than the rest of us did on two". There are times when I see Orr "standing around"... and yet the puck would come right to him - this guy had an amazing hockey sense.
Top 5 stars for the series:
1) Barber's overtime game winner.
2) Orr's backhand goal around the middle of the 2nd Czech game.
3) Orr's point-shot goal in the top-left corner, against a screened goalie.
4) LaFluer's first goal in the series (he had been stymied by everyone previously).
5) Clarke tucking in a very important goal at close range (this little guy had a gameplayer's heart the size of Lake Ontario).
Some side comments...
1) Why didn't Cheevers get more playing time?
2) Why weren't there more than 2 WHA players on Team Canada? Paul Shmyr could have certainly played on this team, and as I recall, "Shakey" Walton had had another good year the year before... all the good foriegn WHA players on the non-Team Canada team show how out-of-date the NHL was at the time - Anders Hedberg was in better shape than anybody in this series.
3) Marcel Dionne, in general, had a bad series, and only showed brief periods of his playmaking and goal-scoring capabilities.
4) It took Team Canada a number of games to get their stride, and they did not play well as a team in the first half of the series.
5) Bobby Hull, while past his prime, had a decent series, and was fun to watch on his up-rink dashes, which would alway get a rise from the crowd.
Summary of Canada Cup 1976
For the first time, the best players from the worlds best hockey countries - Canada, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Finland, Sweden and the US competed in an international tournament. Canada was naturally considered the team to beat. Led by legendary coach ScoSports DVD Video
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