For my hockey COMRADE, Reno

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Just for you, Pal.
[h=1]A look back at the great era of Soviet hockey

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/has-russian-hockey-lost-its-soul/[/h]

 

[reno cool]

I guess by now Fetisov and other whiny bitches would stop complaining about the tough treatment they had under Tiknonov. Now that they see the kind of disgraceful teams the oligarch system produces.

Instead of celebrating and respecting the accomplishments of so much work by so many, fokers in North America only wanna search for "evils of communism" whenever discussing great Soviet hockey. I hope it's not more of that kind of crap.

 

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Slow down, Comrade!!!

 

[reno cool]

nice pic. Has the 70's Mikhailov line and KLM in the same shot. : although I don't see Larionov.

 

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I guess by now Fetisov and other whiny bitches would stop complaining about the tough treatment they had under Tiknonov. Now that they see the kind of disgraceful teams the oligarch system produces.

Instead of celebrating and respecting the accomplishments of so much work by so many, fokers in North America only wanna search for "evils of communism" whenever discussing great Soviet hockey. I hope it's not more of that kind of crap.

I'm sensing another conspiracy theory here. I think there has been plenty of respect shown to the soviet hockey program up to 1990 or so.

 

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Larionov wasn't on the team.

 

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Wonder how strong those Russian teams of the 70's would have been if their players had the freedom to play in the NHL?

 

[reno cool]

I'm sensing another conspiracy theory here. I think there has been plenty of respect shown to the soviet hockey program up to 1990 or so.

anything Soviet, US media feels compelled to disparage. Of course they can't deny the greatness of the teams so they start every story about how the players were worked 30 hours a day, never saw their families etc.. by evil Soviet bosses, prevented from playing in the nhl and so on.
The one time they lost to (imo an excellent US team) was somekind of political defeat. Of course the 50 blowout wins were not politically significant and so on.

They can't just say wow these were some spectacular teams who revolutionized the game and leave it at that.

Not surprising to me, many of these players who came to the nhl couldn't stand the real degradation and abuse of nhl and NA life quickly went back home.

 

[reno cool]

Wonder how strong those Russian teams of the 70's would have been if their players had the freedom to play in the NHL?

I'm not sure if you mean they would be stronger or weaker but trying to backhand the Soviet system, ergo proving my point.

How about you spend a ton of resources training and developing hockey players, (with no cost to the players or their families) but once some of them become elite players you are required to send them off to Russia so that some oligarchs can reap the benefits of your work for free. Does that sound like a good deal to you?

 

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I'm not sure if you mean they would be stronger or weaker but trying to backhand the Soviet system, ergo proving my point.

How about you spend a ton of resources training and developing hockey players, (with no cost to the players or their families) but once some of them become elite players you are required to send them off to Russia so that some oligarchs can reap the benefits of your work for free. Does that sound like a good deal to you?

its not backhanding their system at all, its being realistic about the facts here. I didn't see any north americans jump to Russia to take advantage of the great system during that era, why is that?

 

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It may not of mattered. If all of the Soviet stars left for the NHL. it just gives the 2nd stringers that chance to shine. We know their top 3-4 lines were better than anything the US had.

 

[reno cool]

Because USSR was not in the business of sucking off other peoples work. They were not offering million$ contracts. They wanted to have their own hockey program for their people and they succeeded greatly.

 

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Because USSR was not in the business of sucking off other peoples work. They were not offering million$ contracts. They wanted to have their own hockey program for their people and they succeeded greatly.

Hahaha heaven forbid one of their players thinking of playing in the best hockey league and bettering their family.

 

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Miracle on ice was just that. A miracle. Nothing more, nothing less. The U.S. Win was a complete fluke.

 

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Miracle on ice was just that. A miracle. Nothing more, nothing less. The U.S. Win was a complete fluke.

No one is denying that.

 

[reno cool]

Pucky, is that Balderis on the far right? That guy can be as dominating a player as I ever witnessed.

As a little kid I was a big fan of CSKA, who rarely lost. I remember one time watching in amazement as Balderis single handedly buried CSKA while playing for his Dynamo Riga team. yep, later he buried the Canadians in the World Cup. But you don't hear much about him, like even compared to other Soviet players.

plus he had a distinctive feature; used to play wearing glasses