OG 64. USSR - Canada (08.02.1964)

USSR: Viktor Konovalenko; Alexander Ragulin - Eduard Ivanov, Viktor Kuz'kin - Vitaly Davydov, Oleg Zaitsev; Konstantin Loktev - Alexander Almetov - Veniamin Alexandrov Evgeny Mayorov - Vyacheslav Starshinov - Boris Mayorov Leonid Volkov - Viktor Yakushev - Anatoly Firsov.
Canada: Ken Broderick, Seth Martin, Terry O'Malley, Rod Seiling, Barry MacKenzie, Hank Akervall, Roger Bourbonnais, Gary Dineen, Marshall Johnston, Paul Conlin, George Swarbrick, Brian Conacher, Bob Forhan, Gary Begg, Terry Clancy, Ray Cadieux.

[@user-kc8yc6ud4m]

Ндааааа, увы, сейчас так не играют!

[@MW-lb4tw]

Супер

[@dvotzmusiccompilationsandc5647]

This is pretty good quality for 1964. Honestly I've probably seen live recordings in the past year with worse quality.

[@ragnarjonsson1122]

La grande rossa macchina

[@peterhunt9020]

Disagreeing with you is not easy..

[@peterhunt9020]

Rus = Dynamite!!

[@peterhunt9020]

Approximately 75% of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics team are Rus!!

[@bobgibson4913]

Soviets superior Physical Conditioning showed in 3rd Period towards the end of the Game.

[@invaderjaymz]

Yes. And it helped that they were playing against a senior A team too.

[@lawrencewright2816]

@@invaderjaymz
Hell, most of that Canadian team were barely out of junior hockey.

[@peterhunt9020]

😀 🇨🇦!!

[@justinschiferl213]

Is this the ‘64 gold medal match?

[@bobgibson4913]

Yes

[@nhlvan]

@@bobgibson4913 Personally don't consider it to be the gold medal game, since the Soviets finished with 7 wins, the next best team finished with 5, so I'd say the 6th win by the soviets vs Sweden was the gold medal game.

[@invaderjaymz]

@@nhlvan really? I thought the 18-0 win over Hungary was the marquee match up.

[@VonOzbourne]

@@nhlvan That's kind of the problem with the old round robin format. Really there is no "Gold Medal" game. [other than maybe the one that clinched it, and that might not even involve the gold medal winning team]
Technically you could consider this the Gold Medal game because had the Soviets lost, and had the Czechs beat Sweden in the final game of the tournament, both teams would have been tied with 6 wins. Although the Soviets would have still gotten the gold due to the tie breaker, which is a bit anticlimactic, but there you are.
The only possible difference would be that Canada could have gotten silver instead of giving that jerk Ahearne the pleasure of watching the Canucks get shut out. So I guess you could say that this was the Silver medal game.