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Originally Posted by Huysmans
That's exactly my point. It was amateurs.
Was it an amazing display and exhibition of the best hockey skills in the world? Hardly.
The summit series on the other hand was the first major meeting between Canada and Russia, the two world hockey powers....
So its almost impossible to quantify its importance.
Can we call the '80 victory important to the US, especially at the time? Definitely.
If you started a thread asking for the biggest game with socio-political implications....you might have something. Or a thread asking for the biggest upset in sports...then we're in agreement. But to call it one of the GREATEST games period.... it doesn't register on my list.
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Sure, you're not an American, why would it mean anything to you? The game you mention between Canada and the Soviets means exactly nothing to me...neither does any of the soccer matches listed above. Everything is relative. IMO though a game doesn't have to showcase the best skills in the world to be among the greatest games of all time. I'll take a rag tag group of amateurs shutting down some of the most skilled players in the world if only for one game. It was probably a one in a million happening (hyperbole? eh, whatever), that's why it was great, no one gave the US a chance. No one.