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24 February 2020, 10:45 AM | #31 |
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Watching Mircale now on ESPN.
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24 February 2020, 10:56 AM | #32 |
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Watching it right now Old enough to remember that game and the feeling when we won. The movie does a great job reminding me of that feeling
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For years, Vladislav Tretiak, the star Russian goalie in 1980, conducted a goalie camp here in Detroit Lakes during the summer. One evening, I went out for pizza with some friends, two of whom were insane hockey fanatics. One said to me, “That guy in the booth next to us looks like Tretiak.” I said, “That IS Tretiak!” They went nuts and were able to meet and talk to him.
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Tretiak was reputed to be the best goalie in the world at the time. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/22/s...le-on-ice.html At the time Russian players were starting to fight back against their lot in life, and Tikhonov was a tyrant. The Czechoslovakian player Václav Nedomanský was the first Soviet Bloc player to defect to the NHL in 1974 and the Soviets clamped down on their players after that, and since they played a lot of European Tournaments they basically treated their players as prisoners when traveling. The first Russian to defect in 1989 was Alex Mogilny. |
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25 February 2020, 01:08 AM | #35 |
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If you're a hockey fan, many people believe the best hockey game ever played was the game between the Montreal Canadians and the Soviet Red Army team on New Years Eve of 1975. (Tretiak played)
The game ended in a 3-3 tie. Montreal had only lost 11 games that year and were an absolute power house and went on to win the Stanley Cup again that year. |
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