booing???

The Vancover fans gave up on the team in 72...shame on you.

OK, so after reading the "battle of wits" here, I have a few things to say:

1. I have only seen the TV movie as I was not around in 1972. However, from other videos and report(including authentic news reports from throughout that series I have come to the conclusion that although the booing did not start until midway through the game, many of the people of Canada were being extremely hard on the Canadian team; the Vancouver game was just the breaking point.

2. What Bobby Clarke did with the infamous slash was vicious, disgusting and disgraceful(if you have only watched the movie, please understand that the part when Ferguson put Clarke out to do that is only one theory, and was never a proven fact). Yet what most people don't realize is that without that slash, the series may have been over much sooner, but not in favour of Team Canada. Karlamov was the Russian's leading scorer and leader in general. When his ankle was broken by that act of unnescessary agression, he was put out of the lineup, allowing Sinden's players an opportunity, which they did not cease to capitalize on. Now understand that I am in absolutely NO WAY justifying Clarke's slash as an act of good, but I urge you not to neglect the fact that it did become an assistance.

By now you may be saying "O, well of course that's the only way that Team Canada could win, to cheat by purposely injuring the Russian's best..." but wait a second and think about all the dirty *beep* that the CCCP Red Army Team pulled on OUR BOYS! What about when Mikhailov kicked Bergman? That's about as low as you can go when it comes to playing hockey! Think about it: attacched to everyone's feet are SHARP METAL BLADES! what happens when sharp metal hits something? It cuts it, as was the case with Bergman's shinpad, bud also his leg, which by the time he got the pad off, had completely lined the inside with his blood.

O and let's not forget how the Soviet's commisioner tried to screw Canada over by claiming he never made the agreement to ban Kompalla and Baader, yet two days later claim that there never was ANY agreement at all! Cheep buggers!

As well, the Red Army guards on duty during game 8 tried to overwhelm Alan Eagleson by outnumbering him, and who knows what the police may have done to him if Pete Mahovlich had gone over and battled off the fully armed guards, which drew all of Team Canada over, which led to Eagleson being escorted back across the ice by the team.

And think about why he went over as well: because Kompalla, the ref that the Soviets picked for game 8 (after the agreement that each team would chose one ref was put in place) had disallowed an extremely clear Canadian goal, which was, after the whole struggle with the guards, allowed.

So if you have read all the way down to this point, take the following thoughts into consideration: 1. Bobby Clarke, as vicious and unexceptable as the slash really was, did help (in it's own sick and twisted way) in the end and 2. Don't even try to sympathize the Red Army Team's situation or say that any Canadian booing and negativity directed at our own players was, or evr will be, acceptable. The Soviet Team was just as, if not more, cheap and dirty as Team Canada. And as for the boo's and bad press, if any fans truly wanted their Team, their Country to win, they would have tried to uplift the team, or at the least remain in a neutral state.

Yet, as Team Canada Coach Harry Sinden told his players in the final game of the Summit Series "All that matters now, is winning" and it matters a whole hell of a lot in Canada today.