In the opinion of this international hockey junkie, the two best All Star breaks didn't feature an All Star game at all. In 1979 the NHL All Stars played a three game series against the Soviet National team in a "showdown of the century" called the 1979 Challenge Cup. In 1987 they did the same in a two game extravaganza known as Rendez Vous '87.
Seeing as this is a hockey history website, I have featured each of these two tournaments significantly for the upcoming All Star festivities. Features include video footage, original articles and personal memories. Just click on the following links: 1979 Challenge Cup and Rendez Vous '87.
2 comments:
I got a question, in your stats of USSR, Semenov played only 1 game and scored 1 goal, but then you have the two scoring summaries that he played and scored twice. What is the correct information? Did he play 1 game and score 1 goal or did he play two games and scored 2 goals? If he did then USSR would have dressed too many men to play.
Well, so the Soviets won Rendez Vous -87, with the aggregate score of 8-7. Nice!
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