show in general who is the real champion here , so to speak, come to us or come to moscow for the world, and not this is all your european joke, but again, like a normal businessman, he said, of course we will come, but we have the stanley cup, so guys, excuse me, just wait, we’ll finish the game... kobak stanley, then in may we ’ll come to you calmly, the adventurer wrote a letter, almost to his grandfather’s village, but they politely answered him like this, you know, may, moscow, sunny, may moscow , the stars are shining brightly, how are they the kremlin, yes, there is no ice there, the game , we don’t have artificial ice at all, we don’t have it yet, so to speak, so stay with yours there, i’ll bring mine, guys, i’ll come with mine, i’ll mount everything, everything. everything

at my own expense , though i’ll take it away later, are you serious now, absolutely, that is, he was ready to bring the bark, absolutely seriously, yes, yes, absolutely, well, at least he declared it, i don’t know if he was ready in real life, but i officially declared this through the press that yes, i am ready to bring toronto and i am ready to punish these upstarts, say please, the seventy-second year, the super series , which was not a super series then, by the way, explain why it was not, well, there was no such name, simply, this is a late transfer, again, that we made, the first super series is when the clubs. ..

an underrated series, because we played with the canadians very often, listen, i don’t know, this is an interesting situation that can be calculated differently, but everyone won anyway, they and we, they learned from us, we , they, ah, we played there more often, an important factor, everything they forget that we almost always played there behind the scenes, there is an explanation for this, but these are all commercial stories, someone had to pay for all these banquets, yeah, in fact, there was money there, there was money there. again why do they ask why in 1972 you played only in moscow, and where? and your sports palace is actually moscow, leningrad, kiev, but do you have hotels there to bring them, i don’t know, to chelyabinsk, yekaterinburg, sverdlovsk, but do you have hotels, and where will you place them? 3,000 canadian tourists, do you have planes, that is, flights in the required number to transfer all this, and if you have so many secret service officers, police officers, so that behind this whole gang singing for...

do you have enough whiskey in well, there are a lot of logistical problems that were not so easily solved in the soviet union in the seventies, after all , do not forget that moscow in many ways, here is modern moscow, hotel complexes, roads, airports, this is already a product in many ways of preparation for the olympics 80, in sorry, in 1972, foreign coaches, when they came to study in the ussr in 1973, including fred shiro, the stanley cup winner, they were accommodated in some kind of departmental hotel, like a waterman, a riverman, i don’t remember there. almost no one ever wrote about canadian fans at matches between the soviet union and canada. no, why, well, it’s like the best classic book about hockey ever published. canadian fans, what were they

doing here, they walked along red square, marched, shouted, chants, they bought some kind of hats with cockades somewhere, whatever they managed to say in aentorg, well, there was no arbat yet, but in the modern sense, yes, they drank, because they were currency bars. after all, for them , mostly foreign tourists lived in a tver hotel, which doesn’t exist, that is, i don’t know yet, 300 obviously wouldn’t fit into a foreign tourist, yes, but somehow they were generally stationed around moscow, so they organized a showdown, our fans in canada, and how about me, well , someone could have come to montreal or only representatives embassies could come to the game, well , some ambassadors, well, listen, even in the eighty- first year , a small delegation came to the canada cup, as if tourists, and in which, oh, god forbid... memory, but there

was definitely a film director of the bulls , actor-director, yes, well, there were about 7-10 people there, and some were directors, oh, some were singers. now i don’t remember who, but not kobzon, there was one strange woman in the whole delegation, who was some kind of leading lady of production, or the weaver, or someone, and roland bykov constantly scolded her in his diaries, for the inadequacy of the company, that’s all, strictly speaking, no, well, why, we didn’t have tourism as such, we had the eighties, a miracle on ice for the us team, the victory of the soviet union team at the olympics, and what can be called a miracle on ice for the soviet union team, was it? what in our history? of course, well, look, it’s 1954, uh, the first soviet team comes to the first world cup and beats the canadians - in the decisive match 7:2, when no one around believes in it, yeah, to the point of saying: