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GAME 6

Yvan Cournoyer scores
Yvan Cournoyer pops one in.
The series was beginning to look like a war by Game Six. Inefficient refereeing led a amazing stream of penalties against Canada and very rough play (they were actually using a two referee and no linesmen system for the whole series, as was the norm in Europe back then).

The second period featured a incident in which Bobby Clarke came up behind Valeri Kharlamov, wound up his stick and swung it, as he would a golf club, right across the ankle of the Russian forward. The blow took Kharlamov, for all intents and purposes, out of the series. He did came back in Game Eight but did not really contribute.

All the goals in the game were scored in the second as Paul Henderson, foreshadowing things to come, scored the eventual winning goal in a 3-2 Canadian win.

Game6


CANADA 3 USSR 2, Moscow, 09/24/72

First Period
No Goal
Penalties : Bergman 10:21, P.Esposito (double minor) 13:11.

Second Period
1- USSR Yuri Liapkin (Yakushev, Shadrin) 1:12
2- Canada Dennis Hull (Gilbert) 5:13
3- Canada Yvan Cournoyer (Berenson) 6:21
4- Canada Paul Henderson (Unassisted) 6:36
5- USSR Alexander Yakushev (Shadrin, Liapkin) 17:11
Penalties : Ragulin 2:09, Lapointe and Vasiliev 8:29, Clarke (minor and misconduct) 10:12, Hull 17:02, P.Esposito (major) 17:46, Canada Bench 17:46.

Third Period
No Goal
Penalty : Ellis 17:39.

Shots Canada 7 - 8 - 7 - 22 /USSR 12 - 8 - 9 - 29
Goalkeepers/ Dryden and Tretiak





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