Nicholas de Pencier will serve as producer and showrunner alongside a team of writers and directors that includes musician and writer Dave Bidini, director and producer Robert MacAskill and journalist Ravi Baichwal. Producers say the project will feature interviews with Team Canada players including Phil Esposito, Ken Dryden, and Serge Savard, in addition to voices from Team USSR, and never-before-seen archival footage“The 72 Summit Series is in our DNA as a nation,” de Pencier said Monday in a statement. “It was a life-altering experience for the players and their fans from both sides of the Iron Curtain, that changed the cultural, political, and sports landscapes in ways that no one could have foreseen at the time. “It is a story that endures and needs to be told through the prism of the present day to understand what it meant, how it changed hockey, and how it changed Canada.”This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 25, 2022. The Canadian Press

Source: CBC News January 25, 2022 21:42 UTC