Ken Dryden reflects on Summit Series 40 years later

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12 жыл бұрын

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@dempalundquist703 9 жыл бұрын

He´s so right. The russians showed that there is another way to play the game at the highest level. Thats why we now can enjoy the best of two worlds both in the NHL and internationally.

@JohnCee754 9 жыл бұрын

Few people today would even remember that 1972 series, had it gone the way everyone predicted (an 8-game sweep by the vaunted NHLers). Today's generation just doesn't realize how big an unknown the USSR was back then. A closed society, a rigid political system, and a hockey program (and players) we knew nothing about. But the way we came back to win it -- and the way a guy like Dryden, whose style was not at all tuned to the pass-pass-pass-score system employed by the Russians, adapted and won -- is why it lives on forever to a Canadian. Ken didn't have a good series -- but he was big at the end when it counted. Great interview.

@johnsambo9379 Жыл бұрын

The Canadians began to fight and cheat when they saw they weren't as good. Disgusting.

@foxmegamaster6403 Жыл бұрын

Cheater canada broke the leg of Kharlamov and had the dirtiest win in hockey series. Even usa failed to reach that level of dirtiness 😊😊😊😊

@vrokhlenko Жыл бұрын

@@foxmegamaster6403 Stop lying - that leg WAS NEVER BROKEN. Clarke is a POS - I will admit that. But there was no breakage.

@mariovaccarella6854 3 жыл бұрын

He's absolutely right. Not even a year prior, he and Tony O Esposito, were playing on opposite sides, Montreal and Chicago, respectively, in the 1971Stanley Cup, and, then, to see them as The Goalie Tandem on the Same Team/A Dream Team, was a Great Thing

@chicken_953 5 жыл бұрын

As a American I have the utmost respect for Ken Dryden! Man is brilliant in many ways other than hockey. You can tell by the way he always speaks! Could of been a politician if he wanted to

@johnlacey3857 3 жыл бұрын

He was!

@us-Bahn 2 жыл бұрын

Regardless of the final result, the Soviets won in Canada and the Canadians won in Moscow. And the biggest winner overall was the game of hockey itself.

@canbest7668 4 жыл бұрын

What a great orator with a grasp on the bigger context

@NicolletIslandSlim 9 жыл бұрын

Mr. Dryden was always more cerebral and articulate than the average athlete....light years ahead of the average professional hockey player of that time....most of whom stopped going to school at age 14 or 15.

@jamescurtis821 7 жыл бұрын

Dryden was a windbag who always loved the sound of his voice.

@johnlacey3857 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamescurtis821 Jealous?

@terryfrances8341 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamescurtis821 So what's your excuse?

@mariovaccarella6854 3 жыл бұрын

I hope that he acknowledges Tony O Esposito, who stood on his head in Game 2, after Team Canada got beat 7-3, with Ken in Net.

@forego49 8 жыл бұрын

Great humanitarian read his book Showdown at the Summit greatest hockey book ever written takes you inside the Team Canada team and the personal struggles they had but prevailed in the end

@MapleSyrupPoet 3 жыл бұрын

Thoughtful, sensitive man ...thanks for your Canadian contributions Ken

@rickattard2339 3 жыл бұрын

My Childhood hero ..

@bobcohoon9615 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent perspective and summary

@wiedep 9 жыл бұрын

Doesn't sound like an athlete, good to hear his articulation.

@christopherkennedy1807 5 жыл бұрын

Graduate of Cornell University, went on to become a lawyer...one smart cookie.

@September2004 3 жыл бұрын

Jesus... he must've been starving for great conversation while playing hockey.

@euchalob Жыл бұрын

@@christopherkennedy1807 Took a year off from NHL to complete law degree 🤓

@MapleSyrupPoet 3 жыл бұрын

Pride of Dryden Ontario ...special province, Ontario

@antonboludo8886 Жыл бұрын

Now it is 50 years later.

@September2004 3 жыл бұрын

If he hadn't played in 1972, we would be sitting wishing he had so we could hear *his* way of describing it.

@September2004 3 жыл бұрын

5:02 Did that guy ask how many Cups Dryden won? You can't look it up beforehand?

@jeancorriveau8686 2 жыл бұрын

In a sense, the Russians won the series because of their style of play (Europeans) that eventually was adopted by North America (as well as training).

@chevydryden4508 5 жыл бұрын

Dryden GOAT

@r.crompton2286 6 жыл бұрын

The Soviet Union teams were Dryden's bogeymen. He never played a single game against them that could be viewed as creditable.

@r.crompton2286 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the correction. He was steady in that game, but I don't recall him being spectacular i.e. on the level Tretiak was. Dryden's overall performance against Soviet teams was very disappointing.

@pastorfergus 6 жыл бұрын

R. Crompton: I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that no team sports player has ever faced more pressure than Dryden did in Game 8 of the Summit Series. How was this not a "creditable" performance by him? And was Tretiak's Game 8 performance NOT creditable? (He let in one more goal, after all.) Dryden was also solid in the NHL's Game 1 win of the Challenge Cup in 1979.

@howie9751 5 жыл бұрын

Tony Esposito played better than Dryden in the series.

@lawrencewright2816 5 жыл бұрын

Fergus Tyson Dryden and the rest of them team were also opposing rigged officiating.

@johndrmousenest 3 жыл бұрын

he was no Terry Sawchuk.

@barbossa70 4 жыл бұрын

he could be bill belichick's brother

@us-Bahn 2 жыл бұрын

Oh please

@Kerkopes 11 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a politician. ;)

@karlcooper7016 2 жыл бұрын

Mr.pretzel mask.

@victorm45 5 жыл бұрын

At 5:00 is a bizarre question...How many cups are you win?...This journalist is a ignorant or what?

@patrickpetersen1396 4 жыл бұрын

in 8 seasons!

@karlcooper7016 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder does he still practice law.

@brucewayne3602 6 жыл бұрын

... let us that the area of play was so very different ... where Russia should have excelled

@us-Bahn 2 жыл бұрын

Of stately Wayne manor?

@percys9427 6 жыл бұрын

The Soviets were the dirtiest players....spearing hacking constantly with their sticks!!!!!

@howie9751 5 жыл бұрын

The Europeans called Bobby Clarke the dirtiest player in the world.

@mrktyb 4 жыл бұрын

Many Canadians think that we, Canadians, were the dirtiest, starting with the most infamous of all: Bobby Clarke.

@us-Bahn 2 жыл бұрын

Well not all the Soviets were able to emulate the graceful passivity of Wayne Cashman.

@frankspadafora3419 Жыл бұрын

@@howie9751 Clarke was toothless, ruthless, dirty and highly effective.

@riptide8085 7 жыл бұрын

Canada did not win that series. The Soviets won because they scored more goals. It was never established beforehand that in an 8 game series neither team could win as it was an exhibition of them vs us. At the last game the soviets eased off in the last period as thy knew they had scored more goals. It was in fact a terrible loss for Canada due to Canada's style of play vs the soviet style. Ken Dryden was horrible compared to Tretiak. If you watched that series it was just a terrible display of sportsmanship from both sides. The one thing good that came out of it was that Canada had to start developing more skilled players as they kept coming over and beating the hell out of Canadian teams. It was the best lesson the NHL ever learned.

@riptide8085 7 жыл бұрын

indoctus41 The soviets agreed to play Canada to establish goodwill and to learn from the NHL style of play. Both sides agreed 4 exhibition games in each country would be played. I have never heard of any organization, NHL or otherwise that would play an eight game series to establish a champion! Why did they not have a way to establish a champion beforehand then? The reason was that everyone thought Canada would win each game by a big margin but they didn't and as time wore on and Canada began losing games they need a "cause" Soviet sports officials established that they had won because they had scored more goals. Canadians saw it otherwise. By the way Mr Ken Dryden was a sieve during that series. He was horrid. Tretiak showed us the first butterfly style of goaltending and he was fantastic.

@jamesdennier378 6 жыл бұрын

A key point to remember is that this wasn't team Canada, it was team NHL: no Bobby Hull, no Gordie Howe, no Garry Cheevers. Furthermore, the Soviets trained for years (literally) for this series, whereas this was an NHL training camp. Canada was then, and continues to be, by far the better hockey nation.

@howie9751 5 жыл бұрын

@indoctus41 Actually, in the MSL some of the playoff series wins are determined by total goals in two games.

@howie9751 5 жыл бұрын

@Rick Gross You re-writing history here?

@howie9751 5 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdennier378 Then explain 1976 and 1979...