The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, was the 12th Olympic Championship.
 Games were held at the Makomanai Ice Arena and at the Tsukisamu Indoor Skating Rink.
 The Soviet Union won its fourth gold medal.
 The United States won the silver, while Czechoslovakia won the bronze.
 Canada did not send a team to the event for the first time since ice hockey was first competed at the Olympics in 1920, instead competing with and defeating the Soviets in a competition later that year known as the Summit Series.
 Canada would not send a men's hockey team to the Olympics until 1980.
Ice hockey has been a key element of Canada's cultural and social history.
 This has been captured on various releases from Canada Post.
 In 1956 Canada Post Office released a 5¢ stamp paying tribute to Canadian hockey players for "the prestige they have earned for Canada in international competition."
 Releases of the late 20th Century included the commemoration of the XV Olympic Winter Games held in Calgary, a three stamp set honouring the 75th Anniversary of the National Hockey League, the 100th Anniversary of the Stanley Cup, and the 25th Anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series.
 In the 2000s, the key release has been the series of National Hockey League All-Stars.
 The series lasted from 2000 to 2005.
 Other hockey issues have included a commemorative envelope to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the International Postal Hockey Tournament and a stamp to commemorate the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah featured a hockey player.
Robert Alan Eagleson (born April 24, 1933) is a disbarred Canadian lawyer, convicted criminal in two countries, former politician, hockey agent and promoter.
 Clients that he represented included superstars Bobby Orr and Darryl Sittler, and he was the first executive director of the NHL Players Association (NHLPA), which was initially lauded for improving the bargaining power of National Hockey League (NHL) players.
 He is also well known for providing the opportunity for professional players to compete in international hockey, by promoting the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union, and the Canada Cup (now the World Cup of Hockey).
 However, Eagleson was convicted of fraud and embezzlement and briefly imprisoned, after it was revealed that he had abused his position for many years by defrauding his clients and skimming money from tournaments.
 After his convictions, he was removed as a member of the Order of Canada and resigned from the Hockey Hall of Fame where he had been inducted in the builder category.
The 2007 Super Series (Russian: Суперсерия 2007 ; French: "2007 Super Série" ) was an eight-game Under-20 ice hockey challenge between Russia and Canada.
 The series was won by Canada, who shocked the Russians with seven wins and one tie (there was no overtime in this series).
 Over the course of the eight games, Canada outscored Russia 39-13.
 The Series was held from August 27 to September 9 in various venues in both countries.
 The event commemorated the 35th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series between the USSR and Canada.
The Summit Series, or Super Series (in Russian "Суперсерия СССР — Канада"; "Superseriya SSSR — Canada"), known at the time simply as the Canada–USSR Series, was an eight-game series of ice hockey between the Soviet Union and Canada, held in September 1972.
 It was the first competition between the Soviet national team and a Canadian team represented by professional players of the National Hockey League (NHL), known as "Team Canada".
 It was the first international ice hockey competition for Canada after Canada had withdrawn from international ice hockey competitions in a dispute with the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
 The series was organized with the intention to create a true best-on-best competition in the sport of ice hockey.
 The Soviets had become the dominant team in international competitions, which disallowed the professional players of Canada.
 Canada had had a long history of dominance of the sport prior to the Soviets' rise.
The 1974 Summit Series was the second of two competitions between Soviet and Canadian professional ice hockey players.
 Canada was represented by World Hockey Association players instead of the National Hockey League players that played in the 1972 Summit Series.
 The Soviet team won the series 4-1-3 over Canada.
 The format was the same as the 1972 Summit Series, with four games across Canada and four in Moscow.
 Canada's lone victory came at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
Yury Ivanovich Blinov (born January 13, 1949 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a retied ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
 He played for HC CSKA Moscow.
 He was also a member of the Soviet team for the Summit Series against Canada.
 He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972.
The Summit Series was an eight-game series of ice hockey between the Soviet Union and Canada, held in September 1972.
Rick Noonan is a Canadian ice hockey executive.
 He was the general manager of the Canada men's national ice hockey team for the 1980 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, New York.
 Noonan began his sports career in Ontario as an athletic trainer, and in the 1960s served as trainer for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.
 In 1970, he joined the University of British Columbia where he was the sports trainer.
 In 1972, during the Summit Series, Noonan was assigned by Hockey Canada to assist the Soviet Union national ice hockey team while they were in Canada.
 Noonan was the only Canadian to have regular access to the Soviet's locker room, and he was behind the Soviet's bench as a trainer during the first four games of the Summit Series.
Franz Baader was a German referee and linesman.
 He is a member of the German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.
 He was the referee during Game 6 of the 1972 Summit Series, played between Canada and the Soviet Union.

Question: Robert Alan Eagleson (born April 24, 1933) is a disbarred Canadian lawyer, convicted criminal in two countries, former politician, hockey agent and promoter, he helped promote the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union, the Summit Series, or Super Series, known at the time simply as the Canada–USSR Series, was an eight-game series of ice hockey between the Soviet Union and Canada, held when?
Answer: September 1972