The Series

<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>&#160;SEPTEMBER 2 1972 MONTREAL FORUM GAME ONE:&#160;<br><i> </i><br>&#160;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>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;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&#151;on a weekday during work and school hours all across the country&#151;the nation stopped. Of Canada&#146;s 22 million people 16 million watched. Three thousand more were there in Moscow behind the Iron Curtain singing&#151;<i>Da da Ka-na-da nyet nyet So-vi-yet!</i><br>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <i> </i>It is a story long told often told. But never like this.<br>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Ken Dryden a goalie in the series a lifetime observer later a writer tells the story in &#147;you are there&#148; style as if he is living it for the first time. As if you the reader are too.<br>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The series as it turned out is the most important moment in hockey history changing the game on the ice and off everywhere in the world. As it turned out it is one of the most significant events in all of Canada&#146;s history.<br>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Through Ken Dryden&#146;s words we understand why.