Why are cheap shots necessary to tell a story like this? This first quotation needs its own headline until the matter is fully and properly investigated including police investigations.
“But the 50th anniversary of the Summit Series has arrived at a deeply troubling time for Canadian hockey, with its national governing body embroiled in scandal over historical sexual assault cases and millions of dollars in previously undisclosed payouts. The fledgling Hockey Canada, only founded in 1968, had been a key player in organizing the ’72 series.”
The next quotation is pure politics and has no place in this article.
“Meanwhile, Russia’s reprehensible invasion of Ukraine this year — including undeniable war crimes and nuclear threats recalling the darkest days of the Cold War — has left it in diplomatic deep-freeze with Canada and a virtual pariah state in the international arena.”
Perhaps it time again for this, even if Trudeau was a rabid communist.
“The thawing of relations that the Summit Series represented in 1972 — which took place the year after historic visits to each other’s countries by then-Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin and Canada’s then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau — seems like a distant memory today.”