TERREBONNE - Serge Savard says the best Canadian hockey team he ever played on wasn’t the one that beat the Soviet Union in the legendary 1972 Summit Series.

That honour belongs to the less-celebrated — but supremely talented — squad that won the inaugural Canada Cup in 1976.

“The best team ever formed,” the Montreal Canadiens legend said.

The 1976 Canadian men’s hockey team reunited on Tuesday at Le Mirage Golf Club for Savard’s annual tournament, almost 50 years after Darryl Sittler scored the championship-clinching goal in a 5-4 overtime win against Czechoslovakia on Sept. 15, 1976, at the Montreal Forum.

Almost anyone alive in Canada in 1972 can recall where they were when Paul Henderson scored the winning goal with 34 seconds left to lift Canada past the Soviets. The game played o

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