Edited sentence: Canada also had a negative overall goal differential for the series (32-31), and Team Canada's extremely unsportmanlike conduct shocked Swedish, German, and other international observers, making their victory a marginal and  Pyrrhic one, at best.Yet the Soviets had nothing to do with Bobby Orr's absence, because it was Canada's choice not to play him, but Canada was entirely responsible for Valery Kharlamov's absense because they chose to illegally and deliberately fracture his ankle