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hello and welcome to sophie and co are not saying today will welcome you from the station or of the silk tropical central sochi what the twenty second winter olympics are in full swing the world's finest winter athletes are competing here on ice and snow giving it their all for the ultimate prize where does the drive come from and how can anyone possibly handle the pressure of millions watching someone who has been there twice probably knows about so without an olympic champion will have all the answers. a member of the legendary russian find with julie the gold medals under his belt and three stanley cup stews names he knows

a thing or two winning what does it take to stand tall with the podium how do you mold it doesn't superstars one super team who can take. it or let you all know for a legendary hockey player it's really great to have you on our program today so which team will you be supporting. well i've got my russian passport and. my we can call the team russia. and any discipline in the olympics is going to hockey is always to weigh in when you are playing in america we're always waiting for rush hour you know what it's going to the russian sort of hockey system and obviously in . i played this for you from the link it's in eighty four eighty eight in two thousand and two. and my my heart and my my roots back home here in the russia and especially. these two weeks in sorcery so it's very very important to.

the russian athletes hockey players and then everybody else to do the best and to bring some. little piece of glory to the russian people but this your heart talking a lot about your had on your hawking to you know how you are you know what it's that's that's the good that's a good question but the same time when you watch and. hockey it's a basket you can measure and. see you know these days because it's the best against the best and i. cannot i cannot so your question it's obviously a bit more than just like i would do for somebody just trying to see if any new. tendencies of the hockey game. will be developing so to me it's nice to see. maybe some. remarkable skill from players. they can show on a game on the line and get a game like russia or us and it's a. nail biting game we could to to win the overtime and the shootout at the most

like a quasi hockey game but how fair is it for you know what to look in a shootout at some thinking it's probably like a lottery does it really define which team is better if you win in a shootout you know what i mean there because big federal. system has been the employed a few years a few years ago but that's the rules international rules and then the children during the season but in the playoffs usually sort of that over time in north america in the in the europe or the missional scene sort of this kind of different sort of course of that i don't think is fair because you want to go wild in the game in the five hundred five or four or four against four in overtime but not in the short i was so but it's. you know bring some excitement with the game and the friends were cheering and i was actually very nice up this year and in the building but if you look at the american team i mean they're like super young they have no

olympic experience is that even a factor this is a matter who you know want to know they have some experience or they have some of you guys coming back from vancouver games and. of course i. know really well the g.m. of team usa brian burke and fred sure by my initial days and and even now my and my agency works or and those people don't know the game well so i noticed the coach . sonic option from go should be in the bowels of most stories he knows the game well too saw it's a young team but it's well assembled and a really good chemistry between the young players and they you know they can go. far in this olympics most of these players are now playing in eighteen eighteen n.h.l. is more important to play there and make money than actually prepare for the olympics and forge a team chemistry together the next time i want to knowing i don't know it's. is this is that in ninety eight years time and the cello took

a break and then the season when this in the old and the chill guys to play in japan in the not going to the picks and the day. these you know i mean hockey is the main event you know i don't care what anybody said about it was getting oratorical all the respect and other sports about hockey because you got somebody superstars to play and to play against each other so it's not every time you can see. around the wall it's like i will cup of soccer so about it this is and shell players come into and play. especially can olympics and and the players to comment play and to be proud of their country so i think it's a make up. stories about you know for the players because of that that's why. once the four years you know and you have a chance to represent your country and you haven't chose to go for the google for the gold or you can lose for example and got to wait next to him for four years and

there's no guarantee they're going to be. played again for the team you have i mean it would seem russia can use a team canada. citing a long term contract six seven eight years so you secure so you can the you know you can go down a couple of a season the goal is to this year so you can take a break for months and then go back again in september and have your goal set to go again for the senate. so it will be basically even more important than this don't mess with the country so for the country and the for obesity to have. in your resume let's put it that way to play for your country and the bring the gold because. it's going to be with you for the rest of your life than a cup champion also but it's only played in north america you know. local event i want to talk to a little bit about the stars because russia was so eager to have all their and ha players play in this olympics is it important do you think it's more important to

have star players come together and then actually train the team. well you know what the what you played against against the best teams from canada from the u.s. and from sweden from czech republic slovakia switzerland so most of the guys. these days play hockey in the best they can award the national hockey league in north america and for the russian players you have to be you were. and you have to be candid to now honest and to see that we should won i mean who played against you know and to me there is no doubt in my mind nationally the national hockey league because it's very very tough to play and and in the in that the players are getting shorter and better because of the competition and it's you got to. prove yourself every single night when you step on the ice and for many many years you know if you want to stay long or play like what then fifteen twenty

years it's a lot of it's a big commitment and and that's why getting better and. being the recognized as like a great player in the will take over or. patrick kane sidney crosby you know and i want to know but i'm so so thinking when you're such a star in your n.h.l. team you probably have some sort of an ego and then you have all different n.h.l. stars put in a team together does that get in the way the personalities rather that's the that's the big issue if you they would see him because i can tell you why when the g.m. . putting the team together likes like sixteen get of the civilizing who got five other assistant g.m. laker the people who work for they're going to choke labs and the general managers so they they go if they go through like these two eighty five one hundred players and they have to and they usually you can the best of the best and and the special

role for example. don't lie and it's got to be a goal scorers and play makers and checkers and this and that so that it's you who are you building the team you know and where you sleep when the guys in the team like thirty and shell teams and then when the making like twenty guys you can twenty guys out of like six hundred fifty players to play for kind of the place where you have to play for russia so every player got to eagle because you when you play for the capitals washington capitals so playing for chicago blackhawks you don't player there and you spend maybe twenty twenty five minutes twice them every night you know when you go play for. that you know russia so you've got like twenty guys hold the best you know and then that you have to put you go way site and do what i would needed for the country what it seem and this want it to be ex a short period of time when you have to forget about how much time i start you

haven't how many goals you score but you know you have to see that at the end of the day you got to see that. nice colorado for gold when you're in that clip he said became the champion so who cares how many minutes your played i mean those who score but there's a team you sacrifice you know you go and do your best for the country for the club and and you know it's nice to have a smile and to be a champion and that's that it's all about when you say that russian team has a great team spirit as of now i didn't see it was a game of the tournament against slovenia but it's in a game you play and it's going to events and it's not easy because of that you start you are getting used to the new yorker in a new environment or recently and in the france and the plane home and. i'm sure a lot of destruction is because of the fame of these and the friends and nowadays it's a commuter in the instagram and

a lot of different stuff you know because of what i play there. so. you can have no . so they it's. it's a good for them aren't and for the russian players when you come to play home so that's you know you have to realize that you know that that's the. little things and you know thinking about or about bother you so you've got to put them aside and . go and be honest with yourself and be honest with the people whose so the country would be watching and there are actually expecting you to go to turin so you're going to take a short break now and right after the break we're going to talk about the role of the captain and also what's the main task of the coach these days stay with us.

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look like it's going to be taking a little bit every week. and we're back on sophia go here from sochi with hockey's absolutely action to go to light one of you were like one of the five legendary hockey player stars in your ceasar. super heroes back then did your personalities get it in a way of each other. we were talking about the soviet days and talking about soviet days eighty's and we didn't play for our north american teams play it would be money. because we grew up with a system which is that you work was actually the main thing even today it's same

thing but today nowadays when the players play and when the young so they are they going for it for the personal. benefits which is you know you score many goals you know making many passes and going to get some bonuses you're going to get your contract so basically it's playing for yourself but they do good for the team too. and that's what that's what the difference between that but a generation in our generation so we grew up in a certain system you know we didn't care a score we care about that. and we play for each other so that's what those big because your friends who are you have skill they had a great amount of you do it all like crazy let's put it that way and a mature nation and it was a chanel. and a how to sense it's also. playing the game nobody could play you know they've got

a unified command unit and about today's. game a change and it will be different as the money change the game might change the game to buy the money always for in north america and shell so for the russian players. well you played for the sort you know so were you making the maybe like three hundred fifty rubles a month which was actually good money back and said he would money but you played against in that show guys and the cowboy or played. like a super serious like during christmas break her christmastime so he played against the guys who make it make it five hundred thousand dollars you know so and then. and you get actually you know you've been successful against them because you were like three hundred roubles and they're playing against like half a million a million dollars contracts and. maybe maybe seventy seven percent of the games have been successful for us so then you go to north america and then you've got you've got the agent you've got the advisors and they'll be you know if you want to

get a nice car you're going to get a nice house you know you've got to play well the best statistics if you wore statistics you know so that's what started to start to understand you worry about yourself you worry about like how many goals how many points i have nyc and major can go to the g.m. and they look at look at these numbers you know that they are making like a two million you got fifty boys and there you are making like seventy seven hundred thousand and i got seventy five points so i want to have like that million dollar contract so it's all about. it's good players' minds but when you go to the plate for the country and so that's a different approach to this is the only you get there and they told me that the stick doesn't matter the end and the result it's important so you had. both of the two worlds hand on your heart what was emotionally more fulfilling and thrilling to you can separate like you know do you know i can i can tell you i

would be more than happy to come to north america when i was eighteen. make a lot of money and sort of i mean that there's twenty nine when the basically most of the players were going through that area from the game. but the same time when you're playing for the team and the and for the country and the unit like everyone i played in this line and agree i agree the unit. the way we played it's it's very hard to describe because it's it's a game it was ahead of time you know because we play the game it's. based on the skill in proposition and and the tremendous understanding and i could sense. if you make much money. kind of regret about that but same time been successful in getting everything and be like i called red machine. around the world so that's to me i was lucky enough to play in. my career in the sort of you know and the half of north america so about making more money do you think he would have been as successful

without each other in a team when five of you were just beatable or it's to five you that mate that teamwork you had to have think radiant all five of you. well that's that's the tough question for the answer because you know when you grow up in a system like a suit you know and you got there that would seem. had a privilege and the rights to pick any player in the russian territory sort of territory bring it to the club and train these players for the eleven months or year and year after year always you have a chance like to be successful and it's the best players you can imagine going to once even trade every single day two three times a day for like ten twelve years and they're all you know or be individual like for example in addition dots or so they came without a plane and the same line for five or seven years. going to north america in the.

morning so they got skill and they got time to get used to to the north american style and they got the patience from that measurement. developed a lot of play the game and they were in the game instead of the game and be the best so that's the incident different why do you think that's a question isn't to be the captain of the team well you know what he's been the most consistent player for the last ten years for the russian players number one number two he's been. i would say the oldest guy that you know in thirty five. number three cities he's been in the eyes she recognized as one of the best players in the game today so obviously. to have a guy who want to stanley cups who won the world championships and been playing for the top team and that's how you know the detroit red wings there is. there's no

other choices you know there's always a debate going on whose role was more important the coaches or the captains you know how contain what do you think so they can deal you. think over agaves team get other if i'm not mistaken they had fourteen captains fourteen kept us from different initial teams so it's the coach well you know what coach. running the bench you know coach made the line combinations seeing the game much in the lines kind of the hawk it's their religion much in the lines and the who played against who but the players you have so they all like fourteen captains they all leaders in the team so they know what it takes that they could. use to go to the next level to help to support your alignment and so you made to block the shot and and you know make some make make second effort to help the goalie you know to make a safe so that's the kind of nation and the coaches and the players and the camel

captaincy. have more success you want to have to because you know there was there was people they know how to. make the team play well and bring him to get them on the struggles. it's a privilege to have that many captaincy once you but talking about a coach is i mean you had one of the most legendary coaches and said that you didn't but also i was scared and think he was known to be like a ruthless man is fear also a factor in driving you to success who is talking about the bus or talking about that so they say you know this game when you were playing in a seventeen was that you well you would get what you played for the three of you got on choices so you were basically your army and you have to be a general or corporal it's a soldier so you have no rights thing to say anything so you just go out and play is that what it was like being an army when you're already talking to people you play for them for the retirement seem. it's your goal it is you're talking about

the head coach had always been particular he was a head coach whether that means him and also for the nationals so basically you have the same guy all civil war for eleven months and the next season again and season after again very scared of him it's not scary always. some point you start to rebel against like a coach because he's got there should because you argue it's a great game but it's not. so life goes you know you it's you show up you go. to work in the jury did you enjoy the game and did your best. after that so you got to have some personal life too about that you have that in today's world under those conditions where manny is a very big factor and also you've got so many great teams playing great hockey what is coaches main task how to sit discipline a team well he well they have to understand the game today it's

a little different in different state than that. twenty years ago you know you can see the countries like norway denmark switzerland. they all have a good teams germany so everybody play how can i was so it's not easy to go against what they did like that a. russian team play against i mean and they were having a difficult time because everybody can play no but also way back in soviet times i feel like if you'd lost the game it was equal to a crime you're probably afraid of come back to the country or something you know what it's don't think you should talk about that they were basically you were coming to support it about that when they were going to like places like twenty thirty for your civil suit looking about that in america and by the miracle of ice on the team you say. assembled by. players from goal which is in the united states and to be one of the best teams in the history of sorts you know so that was disaster that was like

a big shock but that's hockey that's that's life that's the one game make a huge difference so that's that's what the olympics is all about so now we we move into like a stage of the. going is going to quarterfinals. you're going to see tension . in the air when the players start to play because every mistake every little detail every. you know remark he thinks happens in the days going to go to. you or are going to bring you down and you're going to lose that chance to move on to the next round into the finals and the gold medal so that's what. today's you know that you know it's sort of. true but for our guys for russians who are competing on their home ground do you think it's more of a pressure on the contrary they feel more at ease it's a pressure you know it's

a pressure because of that. we're talking about the past like you know united. great glory days and and everybody trying to. you know everybody from every fan every media. outlet and. trying to tell the russian players so this this that your chance like home. you have a best players and their whole country behind you is very very expensive games. you know so you have to go out and do your best and that's unfortunate. everybody is saying like in the media. it's a lot of different used to be. successful so forget about every loss like a. by a long or a speed skating or. whatever they fix so should be the champions here we would win the gold medals and as i could see in my

picks and we have a little bit also in other sports we've been successful because i'm sure everybody will swear that you know. you know what i want to thank you very much for this interesting insight and your time. is one of the russian also for the continuation of nature they want to sell the american heart across. the rest of it to a new country's new markets expanding markets because most of these countries are previously on circuit equipment. much more political and

strategic. certainly economic and between europeans who wants to europe the united states remain committed to their security and the united states wants. i could jump in and you could if i could jump in and ask you i mean they want washington because they want the american taxpayer to pay for it because the united states pays the vast majority of the bill so this is free riding that's what they want. they don't want to. see is really an evolution they want someone else in times of austerity particularly now with the american taxpayer picking up the american defense industries would be more than happy to do it. almost. exhilarating winter in our eight year journey and you make

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