Back in 1972 Canada played an 8 games series against the Soviet Union called the Summit Series. Four games were played in Canada and 4 in Moscow. The Canadians underestimated the Russians and headed to Russia down in the series, only to come back and win the final 3 games to win the series by the slimmest of margins. The hockey was brilliant, hard fought and often dirty. I was 16 in 1972. TVs were set up in schools libraries and cafeterias so we could watch the games live from Moscow. The Cold War was still raging and the series has been described as war on ice. It is well worth a watch.
The Golden Goal. I was watching the game in downtown Vancouver. When Sid put the puck in the back of the net, you could hear an eruption of noise-people, cars, freight ships. I'll never forget it. Every time I see and hear that call, I get goosebumps. Then 2011 happened. 😢
The absolutely most iconic goal in Canadian history is Paul Henderson scoring against the Russians in the 1972 Summit Series. You really should do a 2 or 3 part reaction to the 1972 Summit Series. Hell that series should be a movie! It has everything: Politics, Intrigue, Sports, Canada closing during the games, etc.
@@Mythos131 Apparently you are either wilfully ignorant or simply stupid. 1972 was only a "goon" tournament to those who think basketball is a contact sport. There was some great hockey played and it set the stage for the evolution of the game.
The World Junior Tournament, international in nature, has long been a tradition over the Christmas Holidays in Canada. One of the best pure tournaments in sports. Pure joy to watch.
i think you mean london/kitchener. as an ottawa 67s fan we get ~3k average until playoffs which will get MAYBE ~4.5-5k average. it's a 10k arena. the away fans are louder, it's humiliating.
The Tournament at the 7:00 mark is the World Cup of Hockey. A semi-regular event organized by the NHL. This was from 2016, which is last time it was held. Rather than a qualifying tournament the top 6 nations in the world were entered (Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland, and Czechia). Additionally a team consisting of the top European players from other nations (Slovakia, Germany, Switzerland, etc) was entered. A North American team was also entered consisting of the top U23 players from Canada and USA.
In the # 3 highlight package Russia had an outstanding rookie and Russia was ahead 3 nil after the first period and the Russian Rookie was taunting the Players and Fans !! As YOU heard the FANS and saw , ' We ' came back and WON the GAME !! Needless to say , The Russian Rookie and his Team Learned a LESSON IN SPORT RESPECT AND GAMESMANSHIP !!! THAT SHOULD have been a TOP 20 because as you seen in the last highlight , The Canadian WOMEN'S team has had a lot of SUPER HIGH LIGHTS !! MANY people will tell you THERE IS NO BIGGER RIVALRY IN ALL SPORTS THAN THE CANADA / USA !!! USED TO BE THE HOCKEY RIVALRY BETWEEN CANADA / Russia !!! Now I would say the HOCKEY RIVALRY WITH FINLAND AND SWEDEN is a little larger than with Russia !!! WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP JUST 3 WEEKS AWAY !!! HOPE YOUR ABLE TO ENJOY !!!!! 👍🏿👍🏽👍✌🖖🇨🇦🍁🌻💛💙🇺🇦
I was on my way to play a game of hockey when Crosby scored that last goal. I watched the first part of it at home and was listening to the last part on the car radio. When he scored I was tooting the horn like an idiot but I was too happy to care. Mert, when you move here, you will see the impact on the country for the World Junior tournament. It is bonkers.
We don't get that many best-on-best tournaments except for the World Junior Championship. It's played every year. There is the World Championship of hockey, but the NHL playoffs are still happening, so it never sees all the best players. So that's partly why the World Juniors are so popular. It's the hilghight of the year for me. Most people are looking forward to Christmas, but World Junior starts the day after Christmas every year.
The World Junior Hockey Championships (for Under 19 years of age) takes place every year immediately after Christmas and runs just past the new year. The tournament is so big in Canada that they went a stretch of holding it every second year here (other years are hosted in Europe or the USA). Most times the tournament is held in an NHL city using the NHL arena and all Team Canada games will be sold out (both preliminary round and playoff rounds) so that would be approximately 18,000 fans per game for Team Canada. It has really become a Christmas tradition in Canada to watch one of the few best-on-best tournaments in hockey. Because most International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) sanctioned championships are run when the NHL is playing, the best players will be found playing for their NHL club teams rather than participating in nation-based tournaments. Finland, Sweden, the USA, and Canada will hold a best-on-best tournament in February but it is an NHL tournament (the NHL will stop playing during this event) and not an IIHF tournament.
I was at the game in entry number 9 with my dad, where Tavares scored the hattrick against team USA. It was in Ottawa, Canada's capital. So naturally, world watching, in Canada's capital, you can guess that the fans were absolutely buzzing that night. It was actually a very dramatic world tournament for Canada. The same tournament as entry number 3, in fact! I was lucky enough to be in attendance for that game as well. The atmosphere was electric. Complete strangers high-fiving and hugging. Chanting the names of players on the team in the arena halls after the game was over. The gold medal game was less exciting, because Canada handled Sweden quite easily, winning the final game of the tournament 5 to 1. But damn if the comeback against team USA and the nail-biter against Russia weren't some of the most intense and exciting sporting moments I've seen in my life.
My biggest memory of watching Team Canada is not a win, but the loss in the shoot out to the Czech Republic at the 1988 Olympics with Ray Bourque being selected in the shootout over Wayne Gretzky. I got up at 4 in the morning to watch that loss with my dad. I remember that game better than watching Canada win Olympic gold on his 50th birthday to end Canada's 50 year, to the day, gold medal drought at the Olympics.
The IIHF World Junior Championship (the Juniors) is the icing on the Canadian Christmas cake. 20 gold, 35 medals total over the 47 years since it started (officially) in 1977. The Russians have 13 gold, the US has 6. To grow up Canadian is to grow up in the shadow of a bigger, more famous older cousin with all the cool shit that sometimes steals YOUR cool shit. So ya, little bit of a rivalry. CAN/USA is always a banger, especially the Women's teams. But it's the Russians. It's always the Russians. Watch the '72 Summit Series and the Punch-up in Piestany.
6:34 That #6 was from the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. The tournament featured 8 teams: Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Finland, Team Europe (other European countries combined) and Team North America (under 23yo North American players). That was a good time! Team Europe had a great showing, losing in the final against Canada.
I remember during an Olympic gold medal game the US women's team had the Canadian flag on their locker room floor and they all stomped on it. When Canada won our team captain Hayley Wickenheiser asked the US captain if she would like her to autograph it. Pride goeth before the fall.
That was in the 2002 Olympics and the Ref's were Americans. Canada had to play the team plus the Ref's. Those ref's never reffed another International game. They were banned.
@@darcymartin7608 Apparently the Americans didn't actually do that. But the Canadians thought they had And damn Russian refs, hey If they're not doping or invading countries they're cheating at something
the golden goal. i was 12, sitting at home on the couch. the moment he score i spilled my tea all over the floor. my mom got mad/ i stood up and danced around.
I was watching the game at my friend's house during the Olympics , the Sidney Crosby goal. We were so close to the stadium we could hear it and see The Stadium from the balcony. We Spilled Out into the streets it was insanity
I was watching the 2010 Olympic gold game in Vernon British Columbia , at the movie theatre ! The golden goal , and my sister was a volunteer for the games and was part of dancing acts for the opening and closing ceremonies 2010 Vancouver
The 2016 World Cup Canada 🇨🇦 was brilliant and Brad Marchand was a Hero , he plays for Boston Bruins so people hate him but when he puts on the Maple Leaf 🍁 he is unbelievable
The USA thinks they are the biggest rivals, but it is Russia and before that the Soviet Union. That said for us the beating the USA is like Scotland beating the Auld Enemy, while beating the Russians is like them beating Germany.
I think once the war in the Ukraine is over will we see Russia back once again. The advantage of the Canada Russia rivalry is a good versus evil dynamic which they like to play up on TV, as opposed to the Yanks, where it gets sold more like we are putting our brother back into place when he tries to beat us at our game.
@@jebgordon6608 Russia will have to pay trillions in war reparations before they are ever accepted as a civilized nation again--they won't be doing that anytime soon.
Every time Canada wins the world cup or the Olympics, my town erupts into an almost riot like state with cars honking people screaming and fires lit, what a time to be alive
Major Junior Hockey in Canada is HUGE. There's 3 Leagues and you can have anywhere from 10 000 to 18 000 people at regular games. These are "Professional" leagues for players from 16-20. Kids that play in these leagues can get a weekly pay and a full University scholarship paid by the teams if they don't make it in hockey as a adult pro player. They need to mix in hockey and school and often living away from their parents in cities that might be far away. In Quebec City there's an International Pee-Wee hockey tournament (Under 13) That can bring in over 200 000 people to attend. There's teams that show up from everywhere in the world all the way from Australia to local teams. There's been some big legends that have been spotlighted from that yearly tournament... Players like Guy Lafleur who scored over 60 goals in these tournaments even made National News.
Yes, in WJC you're allowed to use the same shooter after the first three attempts. Canadian coach Craig Hartsburg had the option to choose any player from his bench, and he went with Toews again after saves by each goalie. Toews beat Frazee again, but Peter Mueller beat Price to tie the score. Two more players failed to score, so Hartsburg went to Toews for a third time, and for a third time the 18-year-old scored
I'm not sure if you noticed, but the 2nd and 3rd best goals were scored by Canada's WOMENS' National Hockey. Team. Canada's Manon Rhéaume is the only woman to play in an NHL game, which she did in 1992 as a goaltender for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Rhéaume was also the first woman to sign a professional hockey contract. That was until the start of "The Professional Women"s Hockey started their 1st season last year. The 2nd season just started like 1 or 2 weeks ago..
World Junior Championship - the WJC - is a very important tournament for us, it's starting later this month, you should watch some games! (Not matches...games.)
Junior hockey is epic and it's that time of year for when it starts . If you get a chance, try and catch some Junior games starting boxing day. And John Tavares was the captain of the Toronto Maple leafs last year and stepped down and is now the assistant
Mert, on Feb 12-20 2025 the four nations cup featuring the best NHL players from Canada, Finland, Sweden & USA will play in Montreal & Boston. The World Juniors are in Ottawa this December, great hockey. A New Years tradition is the game between USA and Canada this year at 8 PM eastern on December 31. Our biggest hockey rivalry is the USA
World juniors starts every december 26th. Best time of year. Also team europe was a one time thing in the "2016 world cup of hockey". It was basically the "rest of europe" team for everyone not from finland, sweden, russia, and czech
So that clip of Canada Vs team Europe was from the 2016 World Cup of hockey. They had teams for all the major nations and then they had a team NA full of young Canadians and Americans who didn’t make their national team due to how insanely skilled Canada and the USA are, and they also had a team Europe full of players who either didn’t have a national team in the tournament or just like the NA team didn’t make their national team because of how highly skilled it was ma
The world Juniors are the most hype because every player on the ice is basically playing for a chance to play in the NHL, it’s a tournament that’s basically one big tryout. Hardest playing hockey you can watch lol
Answering your questions as I watch: 1. The World Junior Hockey Championship (IIHF U20 World Championship) takes place just after Christmas every year. Most of the players in the tournament are about to go pro and all the junior hockey teams in the world allow their players to go. Since the NHL wasn't at the olympics for a long time it became the biggest competition because it was the closest to "best-on-best" a world championship could be because the actual World Championship takes place during the NHL Playoffs so playoff teams won't allow their players to go. 2. Canada draws the biggest crowds at the World Juniors. To the point that the host rotation gives North America every 3rd tournament minimum. 3. Canada/USA is a big rivalry, especially at the Junior level. Canada/Russia is more iconic historically. 4. It was Team Europe. The World Cup of Hockey was an NHL sponsored event so limited non-NHL players were allowed to play. To get to an acceptable quota of teams they added a Team Europe. Any european player outside of Russia, Sweden, Finland & Czechia was eligible. People thought they'd be bad but they made it all the way to the final before losing to Canada. 5. IIHF rules state after the inital set of shooters players can repeat. Since Canada and USA had absurd penalty shot takers in Toews and Muller, they just repeated shooters until one missed. 6. I was at work at a hotel booking center when Crosby scored his Golden Goal. Frequent guests were calling us, not to book, but to give us updates.
World Juniors is basically like watching the Olympics every winter....it's all the best junior players from around the world basically showcasing there talent for NHL teams. USA and Canada are usually to 2 power house teams.....Russia and Sweden are also pretty good teams. The world hockey championship is also another tournament that happens every 2 years.... problem is this tournament happens while NHL playoffs are happening so teams don't always have there best players available.
It used to be allowed to have any player take shootout attempts after the first round of 5 in the IIHF. Now you can't repeat a shooter until you've gone through the entire lineup. This may have been the catalyst for that rule change.
Our best players are better than anyone else’s best players, so now you have to go through the whole roster because it’s more likely to be more even odds.
Can't wait for the upcoming international tournament in February Canada USA Finland and Sweden and then Olympics 2026 for the first time since 2010 the NHL players are participating..Stoked 😁😄 And the World Juniors at Christmas time every year 😀
2014 olympics in russia and canada rolled to gold with final 2 games by shutout then the 2016 world cup of hockey and brad marchand cup winning goal and crosby a dominant force
It might be different now that they're put in electronically via the video production, but prior to that, no matter where on Earth the World Junior Championship was held, the majority of the ads on the boards were for Canadian companies because the audience here absolutely dwarfs any other country's.
The shootout in hockey is the same as football. 5 players are designated to take the shots. If it's still tied, then they go one on one. I think in hockey a player may take a second shot. Stand to be corrected if I'm wrong. One of you hockey guys let this old dame know. Best goal ever - Paul Henderson. 🇨🇦
I don't know if it's changed since but the shootout with Toews against the USA at that time international rule was 3 shooters each then if still tied you could use the same person as many times as you wanted after
@@Vanquish79 Thanks for that. Interesting rule. In football (soccer to North Americans), if it's still tied after the designated five, then they start using the rest of the team who were on the field when the game ended. Even the goalie might get pressed into service. I've never seen it, but I imagine once they've used every player, which would be 11, counting the goalkeeper, then players could take a second shot. I wonder what game featured the greatest number of penalty kicks or shots, ever.
Canada and Russia was once the rivalry but I understood the USA have had a program for their Jrs the last 20 yrs or so and they can now field a 20 man team that can give Canada a run for their money. Canada with a pretty small population and the Americans with 300 plus million if a small fraction of Americans take an interest in hockey that percentage would far exceed Canada's population. Only the wine and cheese crowd miss Canadian international games.
Another suggestion is a short video about the Canadian gold medals at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Long story, Canada had hosted the Olympics twice before; the summer games in Montréal in 1976 and the winter games in Calgary in 1988. Usually the host nation wins more medals than usual, especially gold medals. Canada set the dubious record of hosting two Olympics and not winning a single gold medal on Canadian soil. In fact, the IOC(one of the most corrupt sports organizations in the world, right up there with FIFA) ignored Canada as a possible Olympics’ host. However, after Calgary, Canadian governments started funding amateur sports a lot more. So in Vancouver, Canadian athletes won 14 gold medals, which set a new record for gold medals by a host nation at the Winter Olympics. The video is only 3 or 4 minutes long but captures the moments beautifully. Brings back lots of good memories as I live in Vancouver. Highly recommend it!
For another reaction, see: "The Unknown History of how HATE fuelled the 2002 women's hockey gold-medal game | CBC Sports". It's really quite a story I think you'd find interesting. The rivalry between the US and Canada when it comes to women's hockey far surpasses anything on the men's side, and that's saying something.
Ok this is my 5th and last comment haha but winning the 1986/87 Canada 🇨🇦 Cup beating the Soviet Union in 3 game series MERT YOU MUST WATCH IT ! 🙏 please do a video on that 3 game series
In the days of the cold war, the evil Soviet empire was Canada’s official foe for world domination in hockey. Since the collapse of the iron curtain, we feel that we did our job and now concentrate on the USA.
To answer your question: Yes, the USA are our rivals on the ice (even more for the women) and YES Canada is better. (In the NHL 40+% of all players are Canadian with the rest made up of several countries.)
I understand this was meant to be "recent" goals but I have to say most of these goals were nothing special if you watched Team Canada before 2010. The 1st and 3rd Tavares goals are only special for the occasion but are far from "the best" even in their time period and most of the others weren't particularly memorable.
Junior hockey is very exciting. Young guys with talent and no big heads yet .... lol. I'm assuming Russia will be banned again this year because of the Ukraine issue.
While this gives you a taste of great hockey moments it certainly isn't the best of Team Canada goals. Try this ruclips.net/video/8T0z_eziGx0/видео.html
Who is Canada's biggest Rival? Russia. The Americans like to say they are, but the true rivals are the Russians. It started in '72 and continued in the 80s during the, uhm... Momentary ban that both the USSR and Canada got from International hockey for fighting. Yes. Really.
Junior hockey is considered the purest hockey, they are trying to make it to the big leagues, Xmas time is junior hockey time
With the WJHC, we get to see future Hall of Famers battle it out before they even get to the NHL.
Boxing Day is a staple in our household, everyone watches the first day.
Back in 1972 Canada played an 8 games series against the Soviet Union called the Summit Series. Four games were played in Canada and 4 in Moscow. The Canadians underestimated the Russians and headed to Russia down in the series, only to come back and win the final 3 games to win the series by the slimmest of margins. The hockey was brilliant, hard fought and often dirty. I was 16 in 1972. TVs were set up in schools libraries and cafeterias so we could watch the games live from Moscow. The Cold War was still raging and the series has been described as war on ice. It is well worth a watch.
The Golden Goal. I was watching the game in downtown Vancouver. When Sid put the puck in the back of the net, you could hear an eruption of noise-people, cars, freight ships. I'll never forget it. Every time I see and hear that call, I get goosebumps. Then 2011 happened. 😢
The absolutely most iconic goal in Canadian history is Paul Henderson scoring against the Russians in the 1972 Summit Series.
You really should do a 2 or 3 part reaction to the 1972 Summit Series. Hell that series should be a movie! It has everything: Politics, Intrigue, Sports, Canada closing during the games, etc.
That was a goon tournament. The Crosby goal is no. 1
@@Mythos131 Apparently you are either wilfully ignorant or simply stupid. 1972 was only a "goon" tournament to those who think basketball is a contact sport. There was some great hockey played and it set the stage for the evolution of the game.
The World Junior Tournament, international in nature, has long been a tradition over the Christmas Holidays in Canada. One of the best pure tournaments in sports. Pure joy to watch.
Only since the punch up in 1987 before that, nobody watched it after that everybody watched it
Junior hockey in Ontario sells out 10k fan arenas in a lot of areas.
There’s so many players
They fill 10k capacity arenas? That IS a lot of players!
@alainnervedamaged1669 When I was 14, we had over 5000 people watching tournament games in northern Ontario. Its our game of choice.
i think you mean london/kitchener. as an ottawa 67s fan we get ~3k average until playoffs which will get MAYBE ~4.5-5k average. it's a 10k arena. the away fans are louder, it's humiliating.
@ yeah southern Ontario has so many teams and leafs are too expensive so the junior games fill up good
The Kitchener Rangers holds at least 10k
I've been a fan of the PWHL since it started, and though she's on the wrong team, she's insanely fun to watch. Always exciting when she's on the ice.
The Tournament at the 7:00 mark is the World Cup of Hockey. A semi-regular event organized by the NHL. This was from 2016, which is last time it was held. Rather than a qualifying tournament the top 6 nations in the world were entered (Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland, and Czechia). Additionally a team consisting of the top European players from other nations (Slovakia, Germany, Switzerland, etc) was entered. A North American team was also entered consisting of the top U23 players from Canada and USA.
The Tavares 3 goals came in a game where the Americans were winning and some were mocking the Canadians. Then he takes over
Since he became Johnny Toronto 3 goal magical stuff doesn't happen any more
@@Colin32269 I presume you have a point
In the # 3 highlight package Russia had an outstanding rookie and Russia was ahead 3 nil after the first period and the Russian Rookie was taunting the Players and Fans !! As YOU heard the FANS and saw , ' We ' came back and WON the GAME !! Needless to say , The Russian Rookie and his Team Learned a LESSON IN SPORT RESPECT AND GAMESMANSHIP !!! THAT SHOULD have been a TOP 20 because as you seen in the last highlight , The Canadian WOMEN'S team has had a lot of SUPER HIGH LIGHTS !! MANY people will tell you THERE IS NO BIGGER RIVALRY IN ALL SPORTS THAN THE CANADA / USA !!! USED TO BE THE HOCKEY RIVALRY BETWEEN CANADA / Russia !!!
Now I would say the HOCKEY RIVALRY WITH FINLAND AND SWEDEN is a little larger than with Russia !!! WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP JUST 3 WEEKS AWAY !!! HOPE YOUR ABLE TO ENJOY !!!!! 👍🏿👍🏽👍✌🖖🇨🇦🍁🌻💛💙🇺🇦
@Colin32269 actually Tavares had a few hat tricks in 18/19 playing with Marner
How sad you don't know your facts
Watched Connor Bedard score 4 goals against Austria and it was nuts. Canada ended up winning 11-2, it was really cool to be there for that
I was on my way to play a game of hockey when Crosby scored that last goal. I watched the first part of it at home and was listening to the last part on the car radio. When he scored I was tooting the horn like an idiot but I was too happy to care. Mert, when you move here, you will see the impact on the country for the World Junior tournament. It is bonkers.
We don't get that many best-on-best tournaments except for the World Junior Championship. It's played every year. There is the World Championship of hockey, but the NHL playoffs are still happening, so it never sees all the best players. So that's partly why the World Juniors are so popular. It's the hilghight of the year for me. Most people are looking forward to Christmas, but World Junior starts the day after Christmas every year.
"IGGY!!!!!"
AWESOME PASS!!!
Without Iggy’s Golden Pass there would be no Crosby’s Golden Goal!
World Juniors in a few weeks!
Mert brother we can’t thank you enough for all your Canada 🇨🇦 content ! You are Canadian brother welcome to the club 💪
1987 GRETZKY TO LEMIEUX Vs. Russians
Canada CUP tournament
That's a beauty too
One of my favorite goals of all time. Good call. I actually thought it was going to be on this list.
The World Junior Hockey Championships (for Under 19 years of age) takes place every year immediately after Christmas and runs just past the new year. The tournament is so big in Canada that they went a stretch of holding it every second year here (other years are hosted in Europe or the USA). Most times the tournament is held in an NHL city using the NHL arena and all Team Canada games will be sold out (both preliminary round and playoff rounds) so that would be approximately 18,000 fans per game for Team Canada. It has really become a Christmas tradition in Canada to watch one of the few best-on-best tournaments in hockey. Because most International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) sanctioned championships are run when the NHL is playing, the best players will be found playing for their NHL club teams rather than participating in nation-based tournaments.
Finland, Sweden, the USA, and Canada will hold a best-on-best tournament in February but it is an NHL tournament (the NHL will stop playing during this event) and not an IIHF tournament.
I was at the game in entry number 9 with my dad, where Tavares scored the hattrick against team USA. It was in Ottawa, Canada's capital. So naturally, world watching, in Canada's capital, you can guess that the fans were absolutely buzzing that night. It was actually a very dramatic world tournament for Canada.
The same tournament as entry number 3, in fact! I was lucky enough to be in attendance for that game as well. The atmosphere was electric. Complete strangers high-fiving and hugging. Chanting the names of players on the team in the arena halls after the game was over. The gold medal game was less exciting, because Canada handled Sweden quite easily, winning the final game of the tournament 5 to 1.
But damn if the comeback against team USA and the nail-biter against Russia weren't some of the most intense and exciting sporting moments I've seen in my life.
Junior hockey is the most exciting hockey I've ever seen.
My biggest memory of watching Team Canada is not a win, but the loss in the shoot out to the Czech Republic at the 1988 Olympics with Ray Bourque being selected in the shootout over Wayne Gretzky. I got up at 4 in the morning to watch that loss with my dad. I remember that game better than watching Canada win Olympic gold on his 50th birthday to end Canada's 50 year, to the day, gold medal drought at the Olympics.
I sat and watched all of these games! Epic
The IIHF World Junior Championship (the Juniors) is the icing on the Canadian Christmas cake.
20 gold, 35 medals total over the 47 years since it started (officially) in 1977. The Russians have 13 gold, the US has 6.
To grow up Canadian is to grow up in the shadow of a bigger, more famous older cousin with all the cool shit that sometimes steals YOUR cool shit. So ya, little bit of a rivalry. CAN/USA is always a banger, especially the Women's teams.
But it's the Russians. It's always the Russians. Watch the '72 Summit Series and the Punch-up in Piestany.
6:34 That #6 was from the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
The tournament featured 8 teams: Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Finland, Team Europe (other European countries combined) and Team North America (under 23yo North American players).
That was a good time! Team Europe had a great showing, losing in the final against Canada.
I remember during an Olympic gold medal game the US women's team had the Canadian flag on their locker room floor and they all stomped on it. When Canada won our team captain Hayley Wickenheiser asked the US captain if she would like her to autograph it. Pride goeth before the fall.
That was in the 2002 Olympics and the Ref's were Americans. Canada had to play the team plus the Ref's. Those ref's never reffed another International game. They were banned.
@@darcymartin7608 Apparently the Americans didn't actually do that. But the Canadians thought they had
And damn Russian refs, hey
If they're not doping or invading countries they're cheating at something
WOOOO back to hockey! you gotta do more NHL stuff man
Back in high-school we would skip the day during these games and go to someone's house to watch it. Good times. Lol
World Juniors is an awesome tournament...starts on Boxing Day.
Was there at the World Cup. Best 2/3 series in the finals. Canada vs Europe. Very good hockey. Great two games.
the golden goal. i was 12, sitting at home on the couch. the moment he score i spilled my tea all over the floor. my mom got mad/ i stood up and danced around.
Love watching Canada in international events .
I was watching the game at my friend's house during the Olympics , the Sidney Crosby goal. We were so close to the stadium we could hear it and see The Stadium from the balcony. We Spilled Out into the streets it was insanity
I watched the 2023 world juniors golden medal match in a bar in Edmonton with my friend. That’s my favourite team Canada moment.
Canada loves it’s Junior hockey.
World Jr hockey is a Christmas / New year T.V must watch.
The world Junior hockey championship starts on December 26th. Definitely a must watch
I was watching the 2010 Olympic gold game in Vernon British Columbia , at the movie theatre ! The golden goal , and my sister was a volunteer for the games and was part of dancing acts for the opening and closing ceremonies 2010 Vancouver
The 2016 World Cup Canada 🇨🇦 was brilliant and Brad Marchand was a Hero , he plays for Boston Bruins so people hate him but when he puts on the Maple Leaf 🍁 he is unbelievable
IGGY! The most iconic moment in Canadian sports history.
you need to be in the rink to appreciate how fast this game actually is
The USA thinks they are the biggest rivals, but it is Russia and before that the Soviet Union. That said for us the beating the USA is like Scotland beating the Auld Enemy, while beating the Russians is like them beating Germany.
I think it is the US now. Especially after the war--I think it should be a very long time before Russia ever gets to play internationally again.
I think once the war in the Ukraine is over will we see Russia back once again. The advantage of the Canada Russia rivalry is a good versus evil dynamic which they like to play up on TV, as opposed to the Yanks, where it gets sold more like we are putting our brother back into place when he tries to beat us at our game.
@@jebgordon6608 Russia will have to pay trillions in war reparations before they are ever accepted as a civilized nation again--they won't be doing that anytime soon.
@@jebgordon6608 Russia will have to pay back trillions in war reparations first.
I got 2 favourites : #1 The golden goal ( Crosby ) #2 CAN YOU BELIEVE IT ( Jordan Eberly )
Yeah I'm a guy but for me it's Marie Philip-Poulin's overtime goal in the Olympics
This years world juniors are happening in my city, I'm pumped!
Every time Canada wins the world cup or the Olympics, my town erupts into an almost riot like state with cars honking people screaming and fires lit, what a time to be alive
I still think that Paul Henderson's three goals in the last three games of the first Canada-Russia hockey series has still the most exciting goal.
Major Junior Hockey in Canada is HUGE.
There's 3 Leagues and you can have anywhere from 10 000 to 18 000 people at regular games. These are "Professional" leagues for players from 16-20. Kids that play in these leagues can get a weekly pay and a full University scholarship paid by the teams if they don't make it in hockey as a adult pro player. They need to mix in hockey and school and often living away from their parents in cities that might be far away.
In Quebec City there's an International Pee-Wee hockey tournament (Under 13) That can bring in over 200 000 people to attend. There's teams that show up from everywhere in the world all the way from Australia to local teams. There's been some big legends that have been spotlighted from that yearly tournament... Players like Guy Lafleur who scored over 60 goals in these tournaments even made National News.
Yes, in WJC you're allowed to use the same shooter after the first three attempts. Canadian coach Craig Hartsburg had the option to choose any player from his bench, and he went with Toews again after saves by each goalie. Toews beat Frazee again, but Peter Mueller beat Price to tie the score. Two more players failed to score, so Hartsburg went to Toews for a third time, and for a third time the 18-year-old scored
The Golden Goal in Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010. 🥇🇨🇦🤝🇺🇲🥈
I'm not sure if you noticed, but the 2nd and 3rd best goals were scored by Canada's WOMENS' National Hockey. Team. Canada's Manon Rhéaume is the only woman to play in an NHL game, which she did in 1992 as a goaltender for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Rhéaume was also the first woman to sign a professional hockey contract. That was until the start of "The Professional Women"s Hockey started their 1st season last year. The 2nd season just started like 1 or 2 weeks ago..
World Junior Championship - the WJC - is a very important tournament for us, it's starting later this month, you should watch some games! (Not matches...games.)
We love our hockey!
Junior hockey is epic and it's that time of year for when it starts . If you get a chance, try and catch some Junior games starting boxing day. And John Tavares was the captain of the Toronto Maple leafs last year and stepped down and is now the assistant
Team Canada
and the
'72 Summit Series
You should check out the juniors brawl in Russia when they turned the lights out
Punch-up in Piestany. a classic.
Mert, on Feb 12-20 2025 the four nations cup featuring the best NHL players from Canada, Finland, Sweden & USA will play in Montreal & Boston. The World Juniors are in Ottawa this December, great hockey. A New Years tradition is the game between USA and Canada this year at 8 PM eastern on December 31. Our biggest hockey rivalry is the USA
World juniors starts every december 26th. Best time of year.
Also team europe was a one time thing in the "2016 world cup of hockey". It was basically the "rest of europe" team for everyone not from finland, sweden, russia, and czech
So that clip of Canada Vs team Europe was from the 2016 World Cup of hockey. They had teams for all the major nations and then they had a team NA full of young Canadians and Americans who didn’t make their national team due to how insanely skilled Canada and the USA are, and they also had a team Europe full of players who either didn’t have a national team in the tournament or just like the NA team didn’t make their national team because of how highly skilled it was ma
The world Juniors are the most hype because every player on the ice is basically playing for a chance to play in the NHL, it’s a tournament that’s basically one big tryout. Hardest playing hockey you can watch lol
In goal #1, you can hear Sid call "iggy" when he was breaking to the net.
Answering your questions as I watch:
1. The World Junior Hockey Championship (IIHF U20 World Championship) takes place just after Christmas every year. Most of the players in the tournament are about to go pro and all the junior hockey teams in the world allow their players to go. Since the NHL wasn't at the olympics for a long time it became the biggest competition because it was the closest to "best-on-best" a world championship could be because the actual World Championship takes place during the NHL Playoffs so playoff teams won't allow their players to go.
2. Canada draws the biggest crowds at the World Juniors. To the point that the host rotation gives North America every 3rd tournament minimum.
3. Canada/USA is a big rivalry, especially at the Junior level. Canada/Russia is more iconic historically.
4. It was Team Europe. The World Cup of Hockey was an NHL sponsored event so limited non-NHL players were allowed to play. To get to an acceptable quota of teams they added a Team Europe. Any european player outside of Russia, Sweden, Finland & Czechia was eligible. People thought they'd be bad but they made it all the way to the final before losing to Canada.
5. IIHF rules state after the inital set of shooters players can repeat. Since Canada and USA had absurd penalty shot takers in Toews and Muller, they just repeated shooters until one missed.
6. I was at work at a hotel booking center when Crosby scored his Golden Goal. Frequent guests were calling us, not to book, but to give us updates.
There’s nothing I would rather watch more than the world juniors.
best goal the golden goal. battling for the puck in the o-zone corner boards. iggy(assist) to crosby(goal).
World Juniors is basically like watching the Olympics every winter....it's all the best junior players from around the world basically showcasing there talent for NHL teams. USA and Canada are usually to 2 power house teams.....Russia and Sweden are also pretty good teams. The world hockey championship is also another tournament that happens every 2 years.... problem is this tournament happens while NHL playoffs are happening so teams don't always have there best players available.
Let's do that hockey!
When it comes to Team Canada, you dont want to be even, 1 more player or 1 less player against
Our real biggest export hockey players
It used to be allowed to have any player take shootout attempts after the first round of 5 in the IIHF. Now you can't repeat a shooter until you've gone through the entire lineup. This may have been the catalyst for that rule change.
Our best players are better than anyone else’s best players, so now you have to go through the whole roster because it’s more likely to be more even odds.
Can't wait for the upcoming international tournament in February Canada USA Finland and Sweden and then Olympics 2026 for the first time since 2010 the NHL players are participating..Stoked 😁😄 And the World Juniors at Christmas time every year 😀
2014 olympics in russia and canada rolled to gold with final 2 games by shutout then the 2016 world cup of hockey and brad marchand cup winning goal and crosby a dominant force
It might be different now that they're put in electronically via the video production, but prior to that, no matter where on Earth the World Junior Championship was held, the majority of the ads on the boards were for Canadian companies because the audience here absolutely dwarfs any other country's.
The shootout in hockey is the same as football. 5 players are designated to take the shots. If it's still tied, then they go one on one. I think in hockey a player may take a second shot. Stand to be corrected if I'm wrong. One of you hockey guys let this old dame know. Best goal ever - Paul Henderson. 🇨🇦
I don't know if it's changed since but the shootout with Toews against the USA at that time international rule was 3 shooters each then if still tied you could use the same person as many times as you wanted after
@@Vanquish79 Thanks for that. Interesting rule. In football (soccer to North Americans), if it's still tied after the designated five, then they start using the rest of the team who were on the field when the game ended. Even the goalie might get pressed into service. I've never seen it, but I imagine once they've used every player, which would be 11, counting the goalkeeper, then players could take a second shot. I wonder what game featured the greatest number of penalty kicks or shots, ever.
The reason the junior’s are as popular as they are in Canada is because of the punch up in piestany 1987 we actually have that one recorded from 1987
i believe penalty shot are best of 5, and if its tied at the end, they co shot for shot until there is a winner!
14:18 this is the goal I’ll remember for a very long time
Canada and Russia was once the rivalry but I understood the USA have had a program for their Jrs the last 20 yrs or so and they can now field a 20 man team that can give Canada a run for their money. Canada with a pretty small population and the Americans with 300 plus million if a small fraction of Americans take an interest in hockey that percentage would far exceed Canada's population.
Only the wine and cheese crowd miss Canadian international games.
Another suggestion is a short video about the Canadian gold medals at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Long story, Canada had hosted the Olympics twice before; the summer games in Montréal in 1976 and the winter games in Calgary in 1988. Usually the host nation wins more medals than usual, especially gold medals. Canada set the dubious record of hosting two Olympics and not winning a single gold medal on Canadian soil. In fact, the IOC(one of the most corrupt sports organizations in the world, right up there with FIFA) ignored Canada as a possible Olympics’ host. However, after Calgary, Canadian governments started funding amateur sports a lot more. So in Vancouver, Canadian athletes won 14 gold medals, which set a new record for gold medals by a host nation at the Winter Olympics. The video is only 3 or 4 minutes long but captures the moments beautifully. Brings back lots of good memories as I live in Vancouver. Highly recommend it!
better watch is reaction videos to people at home/pubs/watch parties
Too many other iconic goals not shown here. Paul Henderson 1972, Lemieux from Gretzky 1988.
Yes it will along as egos can be set aside
Dont let Americans tell you they run this league all time gold medals go to #1 Canadians, #2 Russians, #3 Czechia #4 Swedes and #5 Finland
For another reaction, see: "The Unknown History of how HATE fuelled the 2002 women's hockey gold-medal game | CBC Sports". It's really quite a story I think you'd find interesting. The rivalry between the US and Canada when it comes to women's hockey far surpasses anything on the men's side, and that's saying something.
You should look at Canadian reactions
Ok this is my 5th and last comment haha but winning the 1986/87 Canada 🇨🇦 Cup beating the Soviet Union in 3 game series MERT YOU MUST WATCH IT ! 🙏 please do a video on that 3 game series
Shoudl make a reaction video to sidney crosby golden goal reactions part 1 and 2
Russia is our biggest hockey rival
Games, tournaments....not matches. 😊
Rock em Sock em Hockey with Don Cherry(Scotsmin) shows the biggest hits and fistfights on the ice
Reviewing that would blow your minds
Look up Carey Price highlights from team Canada. Other worldly goal tending
In the days of the cold war, the evil Soviet empire was Canada’s official foe for world domination in hockey. Since the collapse of the iron curtain, we feel that we did our job and now concentrate on the USA.
Or you could watch the summit series of 72 Canada vs Russia
is there a rivalry between canada & usa? i think you've heard of celtic vs rangers.
How old is this video? They missed Bedards goal against Slovakia in the semis
And Akil Thomas' goal
And Lafrienieres beauty performance
To answer your question: Yes, the USA are our rivals on the ice (even more for the women) and YES Canada is better. (In the NHL 40+% of all players are Canadian with the rest made up of several countries.)
Do they even know how to make ice in Malay.?😂😂😂
There must've been a time constraint in this video, because there's nothing from the 72 Summit Series or the Canada Cups. Big hole in this list.
I understand this was meant to be "recent" goals but I have to say most of these goals were nothing special if you watched Team Canada before 2010. The 1st and 3rd Tavares goals are only special for the occasion but are far from "the best" even in their time period and most of the others weren't particularly memorable.
This is a reminder that Pierre McGuire ruined so many great calls by Gord Miller and others
Four Nations Faceoff is coming up. will you be watching ?
Junior hockey is very exciting. Young guys with talent and no big heads yet .... lol. I'm assuming Russia will be banned again this year because of the Ukraine issue.
While this gives you a taste of great hockey moments it certainly isn't the best of Team Canada goals. Try this ruclips.net/video/8T0z_eziGx0/видео.html
Who is Canada's biggest Rival?
Russia.
The Americans like to say they are, but the true rivals are the Russians.
It started in '72 and continued in the 80s during the, uhm...
Momentary ban that both the USSR and Canada got from International hockey for fighting.
Yes. Really.