Like you haven't heard it: Paul Henderson's goal

[Zine]

A singular transcendent moment in hockey history.

Define transcendent. Is it limited to the sport? Does it extend to cultural impact? International popularity?

At least in Russia, '72 is infinately more important and celebrated within the context of hockey/sportman community. But '80 might be more popular overall, as American culture seeps into crevasses all over the world. Then again, nowadays the average citizen has no clue about these 2 occurances.

It's all subjective at the end of the day.

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Define transcendent. Is it limited to the sport? Does it extend to cultural impact? International popularity?

At least in Russia, '72 is infinately more important and celebrated within the context of hockey/sportman community. But '80 might be more popular overall, as American culture seeps into crevasses all over the world. Then again, nowadays the average citizen has no clue about these 2 occurances.

It's all subjective at the end of the day.

There is a decent chance someone has heard about the USA vs USSR game in 1980 if they follow sports.

 

[PrimumHockeyist]

Define transcendent. Is it limited to the sport? Does it extend to cultural impact? International popularity?

For me, transcendence occurred when Southern housewives, who don't know the difference between a face-off and a face-lift and could not care less, get pulled into a hockey drama as many Americans did in 1980. Transcendence occurred in 72, when over 100 million Soviets and 80 percent of the Canadian public from the era get pulled into another hockey drama, as they did in 72 - since most of them weren't 'hockey people' either.
So yes, for me transcendence requires extending beyond the sport.

In Canadian culture, transcendence certainly occurred in 02 Salt Lake. Our eagerness to win back Olympic gold in men's hockey after a half-century became a story unto itself. Likewise in 2010, but then because the thought of Canadians winning hockey gold in their own back yard would be such a uniquely fitting Olympic ending, given hockey's noted status as Canada's national obsession.

For all of their glory, 87 for Canada and 96 for Americans were not transcendent, because the Canada Cups and World Cups were set up in ways that could only hope to appeal to us, hockey people.

 

[Silky Johnson]

No. Just no.
There’s a reason Disney was able to make the movie ‘Miracle’. It was because the public had an existing knowledge of and interest in 1980.
Try doing that with any other historical moment in our game. It would be a total flop instead of grossing 65 mil like Miracle did.

Globally speaking, there is no other goal as well known as Eruzione’s.

Your thesis is dumb. Disney has made like 6 dog sledding movies including the awful "Snow Dogs" that grossed 115 mil.

Is there some national knowledge or interest in the Iditarod & the sport of dogsledding generally that made these movies successful?

Slap Shot & Mighty Ducks are both Hockey Movies with a higher (adjusted) gross than Miracle. They didn't need a "historical moment" to not flop.

The Alamo, is a film about an event with much higher knowledge and interest and it flopped harder than any of these films.

A films box office success does not necessarily correlate to the importance of the event/topic they portray.

 

[Czechboy]

Is there some national knowledge or interest in the Iditarod & the sport of dogsledding generally that made these movies successful?

Thank you for that line...

Now to clean up the coffee spit out while reading it.