Paul Henderson

2022 - 9 - 28

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Canada's Paul Henderson reflects on Summit Series' Game 8 goal ... (Sportsnet.ca)

Paul Henderson scored one of the biggest goals in hockey history 50 years ago Wednesday, helping Canada beat the Soviet Union in Game 8 to capture the 1972 ...

People come up to me, it doesn’t matter where I am: ‘You should be in the Hall of Fame.’ I tell everybody, ‘The worst thing they could do is put me in the Hall of Fame.’ If you put me in there, nobody would be ticked off anymore and then they’d forget all about me.” A: “No one on the team would have ever believed 50 years on we’d still be celebrating. Imagine I jumped over the boards and the Russians went down and scored and we lost the series. A: “It was ridiculous. Without Bobby Clarke I would have never ever have the series that I had.” I knew it was a big goal, but the blasted thing has not gone away. We felt that we might be able to make it as the shutdown line. When you scored that goal, I became a Canadian.'” I never did that before and I never did it again. I really felt sorry for some of the Hall of Famers. We were just sitting there looking at each other across the dressing room. Canadians, we’re not great at celebrating a lot of the time, so it’s very satisfying.”

Opinion | Should Paul Henderson be in the Hockey Hall of Fame ... (Toronto Star)

It doesn't seem right to some that the Canadian who scored the epochal goal is yet to be enshrined while the Soviet who failed to stop it, Vladislav Tretiak ...

By 2012 Clarke appeared to have changed his mind: “The Hall of Fame is a special place for hockey players who do special things … What of Petr Svoboda, who potted the biggest goal in Czech hockey history to beat Russia in the gold-medal game of the 1998 Nagano Olympics? And certainly he’s learned to see the bright side of his reality. And it doesn’t bother me one iota that I’m not in the Hall of Fame.” It was 25 years ago that Scotty Morrison, the NHL’s former referee in chief, who was then a member of the selection committee, offered some rare public insight into Henderson’s chances at that time. “It’s time to enshrine him in the Hockey Hall of Fame, and let his legacy be forever etched among the greats.” He is a member of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, and the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame. “So many Canadians get upset that I’m not in the Hall of Fame, and I tell them all the time if I was on the committee I wouldn’t vote for me,’’ Henderson has said. Olympic team that upset the Soviets en route to gold at the 1980 Games, seemed to signal that a moment of brilliance on the international stage could push a career that wouldn’t otherwise be hall-worthy over the threshold. The Hockey Hall of Fame seems to favour players with more robust career resumés. It doesn’t seem right to some that the Canadian who scored the epochal goal is yet to be enshrined while the Soviet who failed to stop it, Vladislav Tretiak, was inducted in 1989. Through the decades, it has come to be ranked among the greatest events in Canadian history.

How Paul Henderson Autographs Ended Up In 1997-98 Certified ... (Sports Collectors Daily)

Selling an American trading card maker on highlighting Canada's greatest sports moment was no easy task for Jeff Morris 25 years ago, but it happened (and ...

I had the cards and the Sharpies ready on the table and I went over the table and went over the instructions one more time. Then I told him what happened, and I tried to sugar coat it saying that I probably couldn’t have crossed the border with them. What was I going to do now? “Kind of,” I said, thinking it was time to play the humor card. And I was saving the best for last. I was the mayor of Chalantville. It was the greatest and most definitive series ever played.” I was about as chalant as one could be. I had just assumed that everyone who was involved in sports was fully aware of the most famous goal ever scored. It was the biggest event in Canadian history. Tom was one of the guys lucky enough to survive the implosion of the hobby in the early-to-mid 2000s and remain in the industry. He made the comparison to the Miracle on Ice in 1980 when the U.S.

TAIT: How Paul Henderson's goal united Canadians in 1972 (Edmonton Sun)

Not on a Montreal bridge. But in a hockey rink in Russia. In an eight-game series against Russia, Team Canada, awkwardly and perhaps embarrassed, found ...

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Readers share memories of 1972 Summit Series final (Brantford Expositor)

Kim O'Grady and Lois Deneau well remember where there were when hockey hero Paul Henderson scored his famous goal for Canada to win the 1972 Summit Series ...

“It may be 50 years ago, but I remember that particular day at that specific time in great detail,” Gowling said. “Well, I resisted, and when Henderson scored with 34 seconds left, the entire arena went nothing short of berserk. When Paul Henderson scored that winning goal the room erupted in incredible cheers!” “With less than a minute to go, the entire arena was watching or listening, but one of the mothers in my 4-H group, the late Mrs. O’Grady, who works in Brantford, is one of the people who shared their memories of the final match of the famous eight-game series with The Expositor. 28 marked marked the 50th anniversary of Henderson’s goal and the series win.

Summit Series Game 8: Paul Henderson's storybook goal puts ... (NiagaraFallsReview.ca)

Editor's note: This story was originally published in the Star on Sept. 29, 1972, following Canada's 6-5 win in Moscow, and is part of Summit Series At 50 ...

He has driven himself to exhaustion and the brink of a nervous breakdown, especially here in Moscow where he’s borne the brunt of the Sovietskies’ psychological filibustering. People like Sinden and his assistant, John Ferguson, and Eagleson didn’t like to dwell on the matter when they lost two and tied one of the games played during the first week of September. Their workouts are softer now, apparently because the athletes refused to go on accepting ironfisted methods of coach Anatoli Tarasov, even though he was the individual who created the Soviet school of hockey and elevated it to the present heights. Soviets](https://www.thestar.com/content/thestar/sports/hockey/2022/09/04/summit-series-game-2-canada-shows-why-theyre-the-nhl-stars-evening-series-vs-soviets.html) [Summit Series Game 1: Soviets embarrass Canadians on home ice — and demonstrate how the game should be played](https://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/opinion/2022/09/02/summit-series-game-1-soviets-embarrass-canadians-on-home-ice-and-demonstrate-how-the-game-should-be-played.html) [Skip Advertisement] That was language the NHL understood, and the series was on. Eagleson, as head of the National Hockey League Players Association, has been more or less in charge of Team Canada and Ballard was in Moscow as a spectator. The players’ association, he said, would agree to forego a boost it had been seeking in pension payments — an estimated $80,000 a club. Batja and Kompalla signalled a score, but Eagleson didn’t notice and he bounded out of his seat, ready to charge out to redress this injustice. In the morning he engaged in tough negotiations with Soviet shinny officials who were attempting to inflict two terrible referees on Team Canada for last night’s final and decisive match. That was in the spring when many National Hockey League owners said they would refuse to let their employees take part. Last night’s crucial shot gave Team Canada a 6-5 advantage in the closing minute and an edge over the Soviet Union in the first world series of hockey. I’m convinced that kind of support is what kept us going and in the end pulled us through.

Retiring No. 19 a fitting tribute to Team Canada '72, Henderson (TSN)

Paul Henderson's No. 19 should be retired from all of Canada's men's national hockey teams. It`s not going to happen on this, the 50^th anniversary of Team ...

USSR in Canada Cup ’87 and Canada vs. Whether Henderson had a Hall of Fame career – if not as a player, perhaps as a builder – is a matter of endless debate but one thing is for sure: he had a Hall of Fame September, 1972, in what was a series for the ages. There have been gigantic wins since then – Canada vs. “Henderson made a wild stab,” said Foster Hewitt. Henderson has scored for Canada!” First and foremost, it would honour all of Team Canada ’72, creating a virtual link to a team that recorded the most Canadian win ever (and all the good and bad that entails).