#Summit Series

In every sporting fandom, debate rages over who the best players are, whether it's Jordan or James, Brady or Rice, or Federer versus Nadal versus Djokovic. Canadian ice hockey fans are fortunate to have so many NHL greats come from their country, so the dispute here is about which Canadian hockey player is the best. Canada has two national sports,…

For Yvan Cournoyer, the Cold War truly ended with a splash. It was the early 1990s, two decades after the historic 1972 Summit Series, and Russian goalie Vladislav Tretiak was landing at Mirabel Airport north of Montreal, bound for Toronto with Cournoyer for an autograph signing. "I picked Vladislav up at the airport in the early afternoon, and we…