 Before the first game , former Canadiens ' star goaltender Jacques Plante gave Soviet goaltender Tretiak advice on how to play the NHL forwards . Plante did this because he was " thinking of the humiliation he was almost certain to suffer . " Plante himself predicted Canada would win " eight straight . " In a game scouted by Team Canada , Tretiak had given up eight goals , in a game played the day before his wedding . 
