Rendez-vous '87 869479 224623847 2008-07-09T18:27:17Z 71.115.3.243 /* Game Two - February 13, 1987 */ {{Infobox ice hockey game | game_name = Game 1 of Rendez-vous '87 | image = [[Image:7236.gif|150px]] | visitor = [[Soviet Union national ice hockey team|U.S.S.R.]] | home = '''[[NHL|NHL All-Stars]]''' | visitor_per1 = 0 | visitor_per2 = 1 | visitor_per3 = 2 | visitor_total = 3 | home_per1 = 1 | home_per2 = 1 | home_per3 = 2 | home_total = 4 | date = [[February 11]], [[1987]] | arena = [[Le Colisee]] | city = [[Quebec City, Quebec]] | attendance = 15,398}} {{Infobox ice hockey game | game_name = Game 2 of Rendez-vous '87 | image = [[Image:7236.gif|150px]] | visitor = '''[[Soviet Union national ice hockey team|U.S.S.R.]]''' | home = [[NHL|NHL All-Stars]] | visitor_per1 = 0 | visitor_per2 = 3 | visitor_per3 = 2 | visitor_total = 5 | home_per1 = 1 | home_per2 = 0 | home_per3 = 2 | home_total = 3 | date = [[February 13]], [[1987]] | arena = [[Le Colisee]] | city = [[Quebec City, Quebec]] | attendance = 15,395}} '''Rendez-vous '87''' was an [[ice hockey]] exhibition series between the [[Soviet national ice hockey team]] and a team of All-Stars from the [[National Hockey League]], held in [[Quebec City]]. It replaced the [[National Hockey League All-Star Game|NHL's All-Star]] festivities for the [[1986–87 NHL season]]. The Soviet team was paid $80,000 for their appearance in Rendez-vous '87, while the NHLers raised $350,000 for the players' pension fund. Rendez-vous '87 was designed as a follow-up to the [[1979 Challenge Cup|Challenge Cup]] series in [[1978–79 NHL season|1979]], hoping that the team of NHL All-Stars could beat the Soviet team, unlike before. To this end, the series was a two-game affair instead of a three-game affair in 1979. The two-game series took place during five days of festivities starting on [[February 9]], [[1987]] and finishing on [[February 13]]. The series was very successful, with some, including [[Wayne Gretzky]], calling for more international hockey, especially between [[Canada]] and [[Russia]], the two top powers of hockey at the time. ==Television coverage== While the telecast in Canada was on [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] as usual, it was not a ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'' production. The game was done as a [[CBC Sports]] production as [[Molson]], who owned ''Hockey Night in Canada'''s rights at the time, was not allowed access to [[Le Colisee]] in [[Quebec City]]. [[Carling O'Keefe Breweries]] assumed advertising rights for the telecast and the normal host(s) for ''Hockey Night in Canada'' in [[1986–87 NHL season|1987]], rookie [[Ron MacLean]] and [[Dave Hodge]] (before his late season firing) were replaced by [[Brian Williams (sportscaster)|Brian Williams]]. Even the ice blue blazers normally worn by ''Hockey Night in Canada'' commentators were replaced by the orange CBC sportcoats. [[Don Wittman]] and [[John Davidson (hockey player)|John Davidson]] called the action for CBC. The games were shown in the United States on [[ESPN]], with [[Mike Emrick]] and [[Bill Clement]] in the booth. </div><br clear="all"> == Game One - [[February 11]], [[1987]] == Among one of the few things that did not change over the years was the biased officiating that showed its ugly head in the first game. The Soviet referee, [[Sergei Morozov]], had called one penalty on the Soviet team the entire game, despite numerous violations on the Soviet part.{{Fact|date=May 2007}} Despite this, the NHL All-Stars managed to squeak out a 4–3 victory, thanks to the line of [[Wayne Gretzky]], [[Jari Kurri]] and [[Esa Tikkanen]]. {| class="wikitable" style="width:100%" ! !! NHL All-Stars !! U.S.S.R. |- ! Final Score || 4 || 3 |- ! Head Coach || [[Jean Perron]] ([[Montreal Canadiens]]) || [[Viktor Tikhonov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) |- ! Assistant Coach(es) || [[Michel Bergeron (hockey coach)|Michel Bergeron]] ([[Quebec Nordiques]]) <br/>[[Bob Johnson (ice hockey)|Bob Johnson]] ([[Calgary Flames]]) || [[Igor Dimitriev]] ([[Khimik Moscow Oblast|Khimik Voskresensk]]) |- ! Lineup | * 1 - G [[Clint Malarchuk]] ([[Quebec Nordiques]]) * 3 - D [[Mike Ramsey (ice hockey)|Mike Ramsey]] ([[Buffalo Sabres]]) * 4 - D [[Rod Langway]] ([[Washington Capitals]]) * 5 - D [[Rick Green (ice hockey)|Rick Green]] ([[Montreal Canadiens]]) * 6 - D [[Ray Bourque]] ([[Boston Bruins]]) * 8 - D [[Ulf Samuelsson]] ([[Hartford Whalers]]) * 9 - LW [[Glenn Anderson]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]]) * 10 - C [[Dale Hawerchuk]] ([[Winnipeg Jets]]) * 11 - C [[Mark Messier]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]]) * 14 - RW [[Kevin Dineen]] ([[Hartford Whalers]]) * 15 - RW [[Esa Tikkanen]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]]) * 16 - RW [[Michel Goulet]] ([[Quebec Nordiques]]) * 17 - RW [[Jari Kurri]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]]) * 19 - LW [[Kirk Muller]] ([[New Jersey Devils]]) * 20 - C [[Dave Poulin]] ([[Philadelphia Flyers]]) * 24 - D [[Douglas Wilson (hockey player)|Doug Wilson]] ([[Chicago Blackhawks]]) * 25 - D [[Chris Chelios]] ([[Montreal Canadiens]]) * 28 - RW [[Tomas Sandström|Tomas Sandstrom]] ([[New York Rangers]]) * 31 - G [[Grant Fuhr]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]]) * 32 - RW [[Claude Lemieux]] ([[Montreal Canadiens]]) * 66 - C [[Mario Lemieux]] ([[Pittsburgh Penguins]]) * 99 - C [[Wayne Gretzky]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]], Captain) | * 1 - G [[Sergei Mylnikov]] ([[Traktor Chelyabinsk]]) * 2 - D [[Viacheslav Fetisov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]], Captain) * 4 - D [[Igor Stelnov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 5 - D [[Vasily Pervukhin]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) * 6 - D [[Mikhail Tatarinov]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) * 7 - D [[Alexei Kasatonov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 8 - D [[Alexei Gusarov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 9 - RW [[Vladimir Krutov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 11 - C [[Igor Larionov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 12 - D [[Sergei Starikov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 13 - F [[Valeri Kamensky]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 14 - D [[Zinetula Bilyaletdinov]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) * 15 - LW [[Andrei Khomutov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 16 - RW [[Sergei Svetlov]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) * 18 - C [[Alexander Semak]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) * 19 - RW [[Mikhail Varnakov]] ([[Torpedo Gorky]]) * 20 - G [[Evgeny Belosheikin]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 22 - LW [[Sergei Priakhin]] ([[Soviet Wings]]) * 24 - LW [[Sergei Makarov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 27 - C [[Viacheslav Bykov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 29 - LW [[Yuri Khmylev]] ([[Soviet Wings]]) * 30 - C [[Anatoli Semenov]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) |- ! Scoring Summary | * Kurri (Gretzky, Tikkanen) 5:23 1st * Anderson (M. Lemieux) 17:00 2nd * Dineen (Poulin, Hawerchuk) 7:03 3rd * Poulin (M. Lemieux, Wilson) 18:45 3rd (GWG) | * Kasatonov (Makarov) 18:42 2nd * Bykov (Khomutov, Starikov) 2:03 3rd * Semenov (Tatarinov, Varnakov) 8:04 3rd |- ! Penalties | * C. Lemieux 10:30 1st * Bourque 15:34 1st * Hawerchuk 12:28 2nd * Tikkanen 8:18 3rd | * bench (served by Kamensky) 14:37 2nd |- ! Shots on Goal |11–9–7–27 |5–9–10–24 |- ! Win/Loss || '''W''' - [[Grant Fuhr]] || '''L''' - [[Evgeny Belosheikin]] |} * '''Referee''': [[Sergei Morozov]] * '''Linesmen''': [[Ron Finn]], [[Ray Scapinello]] == Game Two - [[February 13]], [[1987]]== Perhaps complacent about the game one victory, the NHL squad allowed the Soviet team to match them shot for shot and hit for hit, and, like the NHLers did in game one, to win the contest 5–3 despite the referee being from "the other team". This game featured the emergence of the young Soviet forward line consisting of [[Valeri Kamensky]], [[Viacheslav Bykov]], and [[Andrei Khomutov]]. After the game, the players on each team exchanged hockey sweaters as part of the hockey tradition. {| class="wikitable" style="width:100%" ! !! NHL All-Stars !! U.S.S.R. |- ! Final Score || 3 || 5 |- ! Head Coach || [[Jean Perron]] ([[Montreal Canadiens]]) || [[Viktor Tikhonov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) |- ! Assistant Coach(es) || [[Michel Bergeron (hockey coach)|Michel Bergeron]] ([[Quebec Nordiques]]) <br/>[[Bob Johnson (ice hockey)|Bob Johnson]] ([[Calgary Flames]]) || [[Igor Dimitriev]] ([[Khimik Moscow Oblast|Khimik Voskresensk]]) |- ! Lineup | * 1 - G [[Clint Malarchuk]] ([[Quebec Nordiques]]) * 3 - D [[Mike Ramsey (ice hockey)|Mike Ramsey]] ([[Buffalo Sabres]]) * 4 - D [[Rod Langway]] ([[Washington Capitals]]) * 5 - D [[Rick Green (ice hockey)|Rick Green]] ([[Montreal Canadiens]]) * 6 - D [[Ray Bourque]] ([[Boston Bruins]]) * 8 - D [[Ulf Samuelsson]] ([[Hartford Whalers]]) * 9 - LW [[Glenn Anderson]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]]) * 10 - C [[Dale Hawerchuk]] ([[Winnipeg Jets]]) * 11 - C [[Mark Messier]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]]) * 14 - RW [[Kevin Dineen]] ([[Hartford Whalers]]) * 15 - RW [[Esa Tikkanen]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]]) * 16 - RW [[Michel Goulet]] ([[Quebec Nordiques]]) * 17 - RW [[Jari Kurri]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]]) * 19 - LW [[Kirk Muller]] ([[New Jersey Devils]]) * 21 - D [[Normand Rochefort]] ([[Quebec Nordiques]]) * 20 - C [[Dave Poulin]] ([[Philadelphia Flyers]]) * 24 - D [[Douglas Wilson (hockey player)|Doug Wilson]] ([[Chicago Blackhawks]]) * 25 - D [[Chris Chelios]] ([[Montreal Canadiens]]) * 31 - G [[Grant Fuhr]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]]) * 32 - RW [[Claude Lemieux]] ([[Montreal Canadiens]]) * 66 - C [[Mario Lemieux]] ([[Pittsburgh Penguins]]) * 99 - C [[Wayne Gretzky]] ([[Edmonton Oilers]], Captain) | * 1 - G [[Sergei Mylnikov]] ([[Traktor Chelyabinsk]]) * 2 - D [[Viacheslav Fetisov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]], Captain) * 4 - D [[Igor Stelnov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 5 - D [[Vasily Pervukhin]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) * 6 - D [[Mikhail Tatarinov]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) * 7 - D [[Alexei Kasatonov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 8 - D [[Alexei Gusarov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 9 - RW [[Vladimir Krutov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 10 F [[Viacheslav Lavrov]], ([[SKA Leningrad]]) * 11 - C [[Igor Larionov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 12 - D [[Sergei Starikov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 13 - F [[Valeri Kamensky]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 14 - D [[Zinetula Bilyaletdinov]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) * 15 - LW [[Andrei Khomutov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 16 - RW [[Sergei Svetlov]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) * 18 - C [[Alexander Semak]] ([[HC Dynamo Moscow|Dynamo Moscow]]) * 20 - G [[Evgeny Belosheikin]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 21 C [[Sergei Nemchinov]], ([[Soviet Wings]]) * 22 - LW [[Sergei Priakhin]] ([[Soviet Wings]]) * 24 - LW [[Sergei Makarov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 27 - C [[Viacheslav Bykov]] ([[HC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]) * 29 - LW [[Yuri Khmylev]] ([[Soviet Wings]]) |- ! Scoring Summary | * Messier (Kurri, Gretzky) 3:32 1st (PPG) * Wilson (Gretzky, Goulet) 7:33 3rd (PPG) * Bourque (Lemieux, Gretzky) 19:23 3rd | * Kamensky (Khomutov, Bykov) 3:13 2nd * Krutov (Fetisov, Larionov) 5:41 2nd * Kamensky (unassisted) 19:41 2nd * ? (Larionov) 9:19 3rd (GWG) * Khomutov (Kamensky) 12:59 3rd |- ! Penalties | * Anderson 9:50 1st * C. Lemieux 11:33 1st | * Nemchinov 3:22 1st * Krutov 9:50 1st * Fetisov 17:04 1st * Nemchinov 6:05 3rd * Kasatonov 11:46 3rd * Priakhin (minor and misconduct) 17:20 3rd |- ! Shots on Goal |6–13–12–31 |7–9–13–29 |- ! Win/Loss || '''L''' - [[Grant Fuhr]] || '''W''' - [[Evgeny Belosheikin]] |} * Referee : [[Dave Newell]] * Linesmen : [[Ron Finn]], [[Ray Scapinello]] == External links == * [http://www.geocities.com/canadavsrussia Canada Versus the Soviet Union] The heyday of the battle for world hockey supremacy (1972–1987) * http://www.greatesthockeylegends.com/search/label/Rendez%20Vous%20'87 Rendez Vous '87 {{NHL}} [[Category:1987 in Canada]] [[Category:1987 in ice hockey]] [[Category:National Hockey League All-Star Games]] [[Category:Ice hockey in Quebec]] [[Category:Ice hockey in the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Ice hockey tournaments]] [[Category:CBC Sports]] [[de:Rendez-vous ’87]] [[fr:Rendez-Vous '87]] [[fi:Rendez-vous '87]]