The new CBC documentary series Summit 72 is healthily realistic about events smothered in nostalgia
In Canada there is never a bad time to talk about the Canada-USSR Hockey Summit Series of 1972. But talking and reminiscing is one thing. We’ll natter and chunter about hockey until kingdom come.
Little wonder. A new look at iconography lathered in nostalgia for defining national moments isn’t an easy task. As the story goes, for a long time nobody in Canadian TV wanted to attempt a TV movie or dramatic miniseries about the series of 1972.
The country was so cocky it believed the media narrative that Canada would win all eight games with ease. This was where the NHL was king. There, in Russia, they played well and were high achievers in international hockey. But, us, the sum of us, in hockey was innately superior. This narrative isn’t new in sports. In soccer, England isolated itself from the European game, mostly out of sheer, perverse disdain. Then, one day in 1953, England played Hungary at Wembley Stadium in London.
The series has a light but forceful touch in giving the context of Canada at the time. We see beer commercials from 1972 and get a music soundtrack that is superb, more thoughtful and subtle than the zealous nostalgia-pounding you’d expect. Thankfully too there are contemporary voices heard, including Harnarayan Singh, best known for announcing the Punjabi-language broadcasts of.
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