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the final period of play. In the third period, Johnson scored again to tie the game at three. With ten minutes left in the game, Mike Eruzione scored the go-ahead goal for the Americans, making the score four to three. With solid play in net by goaltender Jim Craig, the Americans were able to keep the Soviets from tying the game in the remaining minutes (“MIRACLE ON ICE”). In the final seconds of the game, TV broadcaster Al Michaels asked the people of the United States, “Do you believe in miracles

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Despite their Clarkson Cup loss to the Calgary Inferno on Sunday, the Les Canadiennes (formerly known as the Montreal Stars) had an excellent 2015-16, including winning the Commissioner's Trophy for the best regular-season records for the fifth time in seven years, playing their first ever outdoor game in professional women's hockey against the Boston Pride in December, and ending their season with a .875 points percentage and sitting in first place with 42 points. On September 24th, the Montreal

The Olympic Games has been a lens through which to scrutinize the world’s political, social, and economic spectacles. It has seen tsarist autocracy, fascism, despotism, and the great associated movements of the political solidity and contrariety of communism and capitalism. During the Cold War, sport was a sphere in which the USSR and the West competed bitterly. Following World War II, the Soviet Union utilized the Olympics to assure the world of its superiority and to prove communism’s stability

The Toronto Maple Leafs cup contenders? Impossible, you might say, and that would have been the case just a mere two seasons ago when they fell off the cliff and crash landed into the bottom of the Eastern Conference, but the Maple Leafs are a different team now. They have rebuilt, oted, and redeemed themselves in a city where winning has become a dot on the horizon. They have accumulated all of the things that take a team to the playoffs: improved defense, explosive offence, and unbelievably talented

Sidney Crosby The place was Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Day was Friday, August 7, 1987. On this day, a man, Troy, and a woman, Trina, rejoiced in the birth of their first born child, a son. A son that would soon choose to live, eat, and breathe hockey. A child, unknown at the time, who would soon take the National Hockey League by storm. A child who would become the greatest, talented player of all the hockey world, and who would remarkably achieve this goal by the age of nineteen. This is Sidney

HL, the Canadiens played two teams from Western Canada for the Stanley Cup. They defeated the Vancouver Maroons of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) in two games of a best-of-three series and then faced the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL).[22] In the first game against Calgary, Morenz scored a hat trick as the Canadiens won by a score of 6–1. He scored another goal in the second game, as Montreal defeated the Tigers 3–0 to win their second Stanley Cup championship

Hey there! Long time, no see. With June right around the corner, the Montreal Canadiens enter one of their most crucial periods in years - specifically for general manager Marc Bergevin. The draft will yield some high-end prospects, and pave the way for one or more massive trades. Max Pacioretty and others may be on the move, and the Canadiens' roster may have a vastly different look come training camp. We took to Twitter to ask you, the fans, want to hear about most. We took your suggestions,

Paul Harris Veo Gladun 12/5/15 Sport Econ Final History of the NHL Part 1 Founding Era Part 2 Original Six The Original Six era spans from 1942-1967. Due to the Great Depression and World War II, the National Hockey League, (NHL) went down to six teams, according to NHL.com. The Great Depression aided in the dismissal of the Montreal Maroons, Philadelphia Quakers, St. Louis Eagles, and Brooklyn Americans. They cited financial problems as the reason they dissolved. Many teams lost quality

Allowing gender bias to infiltrate professional industries has many different effects, but one of the most problematic would be pay disparity. The gender discrimination that exists in our society today causes expansive wage gaps which favor men, and this is a problem that exists across all levels of working fields. There is a healthy amount of new studies being published every year that lay out the facts about what the gender wage gap looks like for the average American. One of the easiest ways to