Les Russes et Nous: The 1972 Summit Series and the Birth of Hockey Sovereignty in Quebec
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Abstract
The 1972 Summit Series between the Canadian national ice hockey team and the U.S.S.R. has long been lauded as an event that bridged the divide between mere sport and the headier discourse of national politics. in English Canada, Canadians have come to see it as a moment when their sense of themselves became crystallized in positive fellow feeling. The dramatic come-from-behind finish in Moscow to that eight-game series confirmed for much of the country that national unity was possible and that, in their sport, Canada was still best. But in the largely French-Canadian province of Quebec, where a "Quiet Revolution" toward modernity had achieved full momentum, the meaning of the series was (and is) more complex. The Série du Siècle (as it is called in Quebec) took place in a charged political environment, happening, as it did, on the heels of the formation of the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ) in 1968, the terrorist acts of the October Crisis of 1970, the failed constitutional amendment process involving the Victoria Charter (1971) and a provincial election (1970) that saw the PQ established as a permanent force. Moreover, the Series happened in the heat and midst of a federal election campaign in which incumbent Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau was pushed in Quebec to paint his vision of binational federalism against the backdrop of national alternatives: the deux nations concept of federalism and outright separatism. Across Canada, Team Canada’s fortunes on the ice spurred larger questions about Canadian character. But in Quebec it drew into high relief ongoing discussions about Québécois identities and the national future. The Quebec aspect of the Summit Series offers an important and missing chapter to this national sport story, one that arguably is still taking shape. This chapter traces the historical context of the Série du Siècle and examines its resonance in Quebec during September 1972. Most importantly, it speculates about the effects that the Summit Series had on hockey as national expression in that province. The Série du Siècle in Quebec is an event best assessed in the longue durée. The 1972 Summit Series helped grow the seed of sport sovereignty and the ongoing pursuit of a Quebec national team, separate from and potential rivals to, Team Canada. What's in a Game? In this instance, much more than what happens on the ice or on the scoreboard.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".