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The Russian soccer players were more interested in watching Canadian players play hockey than in soccer." [ 2 ] The Soviet Championship League was established in 1946, and the national team was formed shortly after, playing their first matches in a series of exhibitions against LTC Praha in 1948.
Skaters Player Olympics Tournaments GP G A P PIM Medals Notes Ref(s) Boris Alexandrov 1 1976 5 2 2 4 0 Gold (1976) IIHFHOF (2019) [b] Veniamin Alexandrov 3 1960, 1964, 1968 18 14 12 26 23 Bronze (1960) Gold (1964) Gold (1968) Alexander Almetov 2 1960, 1964 14 5 6 11 2 Bronze (1960) Gold (1964) Yevgeni Babich 1 1956 7 2 3 5 4 Gold (1956) Sergei Babinov 1 1976 5 2 2 4 15 Gold (1976) Helmuts ...
Anatoly Tarasov coaching a Soviet player in Tampere, Finland, in 1970.. Tarasov was inducted into the inaugural class of the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997. [7] Having helped to build the Soviet hockey program from scratch, he became the first Soviet man to be enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto as a builder.
One of the most feared lines in hockey history was the KLM Line of the 1980s. The name came from the last names of the three players, Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov, and Sergei Makarov. Together with defensemen Viacheslav Fetisov and Alexei Kasatonov, they were known as the Green Unit because they wore green jerseys in practice. The five-man ...
Rendez-vous '87 was a two-game international ice hockey series of games between the Soviet Union national ice hockey team and a team of All-Stars from the National Hockey League, held in Quebec City. It replaced the NHL's All-Star festivities for the 1986–87 NHL season .
In Game 2, which is considered by some to be the greatest hockey game ever played, [1] [4] Canada led 3–1 after one period, but this time it was the Soviets who came from behind to tie it 3–3 in the second. Canada scored twice more, each time Mario Lemieux assisted by Wayne Gretzky, but the Soviets replied each time.
He is considered one of the best ice hockey wingers of the 1980s. An instrumental part of the Soviet Union national team in the 1980s, Krutov won the 1981 Canada Cup , two gold medals ( 1984 , 1988 ) and one silver ( 1980 ) at the Olympics , and five golds (1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989), one silver (1987) and one bronze (1985) in the World ...
At that time, Traktor produced several players who achieved international prominence. One of the best Soviet forwards of all times, Sergei Makarov, was born in Chelyabinsk and began his career in Traktor. Along his teammate, defenseman Sergei Starikov, he regularly played on the Soviet national team from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s ...