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Originally Posted by xxxdesign-net
I have to admit that the old czechoslovakia would be hard to beat today..
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They were hard to beat back then!
They were one of my favorite teams to watch play back then. Whenever they played the Russians it was always a very fast-moving technical/tactical game with less dirty stuff and more of the pure hockey, passing, puck-handling, all in a classic rivalry.
We may have taught those teams how to take and give a hit and to show some emotion after scoring a goal, but they definitely gave us a wakeup call back in the 70's on what pure passing and consumate teamwork is.