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Two years later, Orr played for Team Canada in the 1972 Summit Series against an all-star team from the Soviet Union. The idea behind the series was to pit the world’s two best hockey-playing nations against each other in a test for ultimate hockey supremacy. The Soviets won three of the first five games, Canada won one, and one was tied. So the eight-game series stood at 3-1-1 for Russia going into game six. Canada won that game and the next to force a deciding game eight. The game was back and forth until the Russians took a 5–3 lead at the end of the second period. But in the third, goalie Ken Dryden shut the door, and Phil Esposito and Yvan Cournoyer scored to tie it. Then, with just 34 seconds left, Paul Henderson scored his famous goal off his own rebound to win the series and become a Canadian legend. "Henderson has scored for Canada"

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