Canada-Soviet Hockey Series, 1972 In 1972, Canada and the Soviet Union met in the World Cup of hockey. The series became a vindication of lifestyles and political ideologies, and became an intense competition based on national pride. In these activities, students have an opportunity to create a timeline of the events in this historic hockey meeting, to create a poster to chart the emotions of the series, to write and role-play interviews reflecting the feelings and events of the series, to research and summarize the Canadian and Soviet political systems of the 1970s and discuss their impact on competitive sport, and to research the fate of the main players in the 1972 Canada-Soviet hockey series as well as the organizations and governments active at the time.
