The Series av Ken Dryden

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<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br><br>A new book by Hall of Fame goalie and bestselling author Ken Dryden celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series</b><br><br> SEPTEMBER 2, 1972, MONTREAL FORUM, GAME ONE: <br><i></i><br> The best against the best for the first time. Canada, the country that had created the game; the Soviet Union, having taken it up only twenty-six years earlier. On the line: more than the players, more than the fans, more than Canadians and Russians knew.<br>    So began an entirely improbable, near-month-long series of games that became more and more riveting, until, for the eighth, and final, and deciding game—on a weekday, during work and school hours all across the country—the nation stopped. Of Canada’s 22 million people, 16 million watched. Three thousand more were there, in Moscow, behind the Iron Curtain, singing—<i>Da da, Ka-na-da, nyet, nyet, So-vi-yet!</i><br>     <i></i>I