This is one of the few cards presented on this site where the front is perfectly alright. It definitely delivers what the title promises. The Maple Leaf is flying proudly, people’s mouths are agape in excitement, fists are shooting up into the sky. Not sure why there is an American flag in a photo from a hockey series exclusively featuring players from CANADA AND RUSSIA, but I can forgive a little over-exuberant patriotism. After all, it was the Cold War. Where the card goes wrong is in the back.

I know this is 1972 Moscow, so no, I don’t actually expect the crowd to be going “wild”. What I don’t understand, however, is how the front of the card and the back of the card can have two completely different illustrations of the expression “go wild”, and with absolutely nyet explaining this contrast. There’s no, “in Canada, in 1972, this is what a party looked like” and “in Soviet Russia, this is what a party looked like”. Where’s Yakov Smirnoff when you need him? Nyet, nyet, Soviet indeed.