1987 Canada Cup: CCCP vs Canada (Game Three)

After treating hockey fans, across the globe, to a pair of overtime thrillers in the opening two games of the 1987 Canada Cup Final, one could only guess what round three of this epic matchup would bring. With the emergence of Mario Lemieux on hockey's biggest stage, one had to wonder if Wayne Gretzky and his crew of Edmonton Oilers teammates had enough left in the tank, after having just captured their third Stanley Cup in four years, to lead Canada past the mighty USSR?

1987 Canada Cup: CCCP vs Canada (Game Two)

After dropping the opening game of the 1987 Canada Cup Final to the Soviet Union, Team Canada were left facing a do or die scenario heading into Game Two. It was pretty simple. Win and they would force a third game. Lose and they would have to watch the Russians celebrate another Canada Cup championship, just as they did back in 1981.

1987 Canada Cup: CCCP vs Canada (Game One)

Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the 1987 Canada Cup Final. In what many still feel to be the best series of games ever played on a sheet of ice, Team Canada and the Soviet Union squared off at the Montreal Forum, in Game One of this classic series.