I always found it interesting, but also somewhat ironical that Paul Henderson is not in the Hockey Hall of Fame, but the goalie he scored on is.

They brought one of those black and white TVs on a huge roller stand into our class to let us watch the games. But there was at least one of the contests in the afternoon where they just let everyone go home. Might have been for the final match. I remember a group of kids came over to my parents' house to raucously see it. I believe we had a colour set by then.

I couldn't tell you anything I learned in that grade that year, but I certainly remember that day.