Product Details

• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Limited Edition, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Video Service Corp
• DVD Release Date: December 6, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BQ7DDU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,639 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Almost thirty years later, hockey experts agree that the Team Canada that faced the world in the first Canada Cup was legendary from top to bottom - Orr, Hull, Lafleur, Esposito, Clarke, Perreault, Potvin, Dionne, Savard, Lapointe, Robinson, Barber, a veritable who's who of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Now for the first time ever on DVD, Video Service Corp. with the permission of Hockey Canada and the Hall of Fame has restored six complete games that is a must for hockey fans of all ages!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exelent, April 3, 2009

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Frode Blegen "Frode Blegen" (Raufoss, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canada Cup 1976 (DVD)

Exelent. We could viev all the famous big stars of hockey from the 70`s. This is hockey the way it should be played still. F.B

3.0 out of 5 stars what about the other teams?, November 3, 2011

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Brian Maitland (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canada Cup 1976 (DVD)

Even worse than the quality of the video (OK, I get it was 1976 but it's just average as far as '70s hockey pic quality on some of the games) is the skewed focus on the tournament itself? I am Canadian (no, this is not a segue into a Molson Chemical Swill commercial), but let's see some of the other non-Team Canada games, too. I want the Finland 8-Sweden 6 full highlights at least! I mean, playing in Winnipeg in 1976 where guys like the New York Rangers' Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson were making their return to the city where they began their North American pro careers. Sweden 2-Czech 1: A come-from-behind win in the third period on two Borje Salming goals. Czech 4-USA 4: A game that had six goals in one period.

Sure, I want the focus on Canada but it's a "Canada Cup '76" DVD, and it should not just be on "Team Canada '76."

Totally bogus and hugely disappointing despite my being a huge Bobby Orr fan and I did enjoy seeing how good he was on basically one good leg by 1976.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed watching the actual games, but I wanted to see the entire tournament not just the Team Canada games. (In fact back in 1976 I seem to recall paying a whopping $15 a month [equivalent to over $47 in 2010 dollars] for TSN which started just so I could see the other games.)

The box set comes with a mini-reproduction of the bilingual 1976 Canada Cup program and has some very cool vintage color pics.
There are two different slide covers (one with Orr and Denis Potvin, the other with Bobby Clarke and Darryl Sittler). The discs inside are exactly the same so don't go crazy and buy both box sets thinking you're getting something different with each.
The games on the set are:
Canada vs. USA, Sweden, Czechoslovakia (group game + the two in the Final) and USSR. The bonus feature includes both the English and French versions of the documentary on the tournament and luckily both have slightly different highlights.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars That's about time!, December 5, 2005

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Marcel Pedneault "raelian" (Tokyo Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canada Cup 1976 (DVD)

This rating of 5 is only for the fact that this is being released.
Wonderful to see more and more of the Canada Cup games available on DVD.
The incomparable 1972 series (series of the Century) was released a little while ago, and the 1987 Canada Cup as well. (though these were only the 3 final games and one highlight DVD - wish the whole series was available, too) and one highlight of the 1991 (Lords of the Ice) (would love to see at least the final round on this). This 1976 series was wonderful, with Booby Orr playing and... I won't tell you the rest, for those who've never seen it. Let's hope the 1974 Canada (WHA) - Russia summit will be done soon, though since it's not the NHL, we never know....
Eventually, all will be on DVD... hopefully.
I haven't seen that set on disc, yet, but no matter what's on the disc, I am just grateful they decided to release this...
Thank you very much!