BLACK DAY IN JANUARY!

This is how we saw the ‘Punch-up in Piestany’ in the immediate aftermath of the 1987 WJC

TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, the party’s over. As far as the participation of Canada and the Soviet Union at the 1987 World Junior Championships in Czechoslovakia was concerned, that was both literally and figuratively correct on Jan. 4. International hockey suffered what may be its blackest day ever when the tourney’s final game between the Soviet Union and Canada was called after a wild brawl broke out at 13:53 of the second period. Canada, assured of a medal but needing a victory margin of at least five goals to win gold, was comfortably ahead 4-2. “I’ve seen some wild stuff before,” said Hockey Canada’s Alan Eagleson, who watched the game on television from his home in Toronto. “There was fighting between the Soviets and Americans in the 1985 World Championships and there was the…

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