The Game That Saved the NHL: The Broad Street Bullies, the Soviet Red Machine, and Super Series '76

by Ed Gruver

In late 1975 and early 1976, at the height of the Cold War, two of the Soviet Union's long-dominant national hockey teams traveled to North America to play an eight-game series against the best teams in the National Hockey League. The culmination of the "Super Series" was reigning Soviet League champion HC CSKA Moscow's face-off against the defending NHL champion Flyers in Philadelphia on January 11, 1976. Known as the "Red Army Club," HC CSKA hadn't...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493074970
• ISBN13: 9781493074976
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.6"