The Greatest Comeback: How Team Canada Fought Back, Took the Summit Series, and Reinvented Hockey

The series you thought you knew: the first book written with the complete co-operation of the whole team

“They’d stolen our beer and our steaks, and then to make it worse . . . they give us this Russian beer—the warm, skunky sh*t, and not the good, cold Labatts our sponsor sent. I remember thinking, ‘These pricks will never beat us again! They are not going to win another f*cking game.’”

—Rod Gilbert

When the Summit Series began on September 2, 1972, Cold War tensions could not have been hig...