hello and welcome to sophie and. not sick today will welcome you from a share of the soap tropical central sochi what the twenty second winter olympics are in full swing the world's finest of winter affleck's 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 the best so without a living will have all the answers. a member of the legendary russian five with julie big 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 when 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. in any discipline in the olympics and going to hockey is always the way even when you are playing in america we're always rooting for russia you don't want to. belong to the russian sort of hockey system and obviously. i played this for you for million kids in eighty four eighty eight in two thousand and two. and my my heart and my my roots back home here in russia and especially. these two weeks in sorcery so it's very very important to. the russian athletes hockey players and they get everybody else to do the best and to bring some. little piece of glory to the russian people but this is your heart

talking what 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. i have hockey it's a basket you can imagine. i see you know these days because it's the best against the best and i. cannot i cannot see your question it's obviously a bit more than just like i would you for somebody just trying to see you for any new. tendencies of the hockey game it will be developing the sort to me it's nice to see maybe some. remarkable skill from players. they can show when a game on the line and a game game like russia or us when it's a. male bonding 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 input by a few years few years ago but that's the rules international rules and then the children during the season but then the playoffs usually sat in that order time in north america in the in the europe or the missional scene sort of it's kind of different sort of course of that i don't think is fair because you want to go wild and 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 to the game and the friends were cheering and there was actually a very nice atmosphere 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 so they have some of you guys coming back from vancouver games and. of course i.

know really well the g.m. of the team you say 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 takes time i want to know know it's. is this is that in ninety years time and that shell took a break and then in the season when the sin the old and the chill guys still 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 he

was getting oratorical all the respect and other sports about hockey because you got so many superstars to play in the play you get to show other circuits not every time you can see. around the wall it's like i will cup of soccer so but if this isn't a shell players coming to you and play. especially can olympics and and the players to play and to be proud of their country so i think it's a make. 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 have a chance to go for the good will for the gold or you can lose for example and got to wait next to him for four years and there's no guarantee you're going to be the . plane again for the team you have been for to russia can you say to get on the. side in a long term contract six seven eight years so you secure so you can the you know

you can go from the neck up every season goes to this year so you can take a break for months and then go back again in september and have your goals set to go again for the son of god so it's going to say well basically i even more important than this don't spoil 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 then bring the gold because. it's going to be with you for the rest of your life to make up shape and also about it's only played in north america you know. all about the i want to talk to them 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 when 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 have played 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 know honest and to see that we should won i mean we played against you know and to me there is no doubt in my mind nationally the national hockey league has its of your your if you can to play and and in the heat 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 longer you play like within fifteen twenty years it's a lot of it's a big commitment and and that's where you're getting better and that's going to be in the recognized. like a great player in the will take over. 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 are there 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 like slide sixteen get other civilizing you got five other assistant g.m. laker the people who work for they're going to chill clubs and the general manager so they they who are going to go through like the least of 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. line has got to be a goal scorers and play makers and checkers and this and that so that it's you

build the team you know and where you sleep on the guys in the team from six thirty in the national teams and then when you're making like twenty guys you can twenty guys out of like six hundred fifty players to play for can of that play for us a play for russia so every player got to eagle because he 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 you know that's in russia so you've got like twenty guys hold the best you know and then that you have to put you go away. and do what i would needed for the country for that seam and this only to be excess a short period of time when you have to forget about how much time you have been how many goals you score but you have to see that at the end of the day you got to see that. nice colorado gold when you're in that clip he said became the champion so who cares how many means he played i mean those who score but does it seem 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's all it's all about when you say that russian team has a great team spirit as of now i didn't see 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 the fans and the plane home and a lot of. i'm sure a lot of destruction is because of the fame of these and the friends and now they said to you during the instagram and a lot of your own stuff you know because of what i play there. going to have nothing so they it's. it's a good for the market and for the russian players when you come to play home so

that's right you know you have to realize that you know that that's a lot of little things and you know thinking about or about brother here so you 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 they're 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. pianists depression.

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all the list of melamine still around russia we've gone through a few jerks covered. now we're back on sophia go here from sochi with hockey's absolute legend eager to lead you on that you were like one of the five legendary hockey player stars in your ceasar like super heroes back then did your personalities get it in a way of each other. if we're talking about the soviet days and talking about soviet days eighty's and we didn't play for our north american teams play for the money. because we grew up with a system which is that you work was actually the main thing even today it's same

thing about trade and now days when the players play and when the young so they they go in for the 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 were up in the 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 you're for those rooms you have skill had a great amount of like you do little like crazy school let's put it that way and a mature nation and it was a chanel. and how do you 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 money 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 of you know so were you making the maybe like three hundred fifty rubles a month which was actually a 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 you played against the guys who make you make it five hundred thousand dollars you know so and then. and you did actually you've been successful against them because you were like three hundred roubles and you're playing against like half a million a million dollars contracts and. maybe maybe seventy seventy percent of our 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 advisers and they tell you you know if you want to

get a nice car you want to get a nice house you know you've got to play well the best statistics there 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 girls how many boys have and major can go to the gym when they look at look at these numbers you know that they are making like a two million you got fifty boys and i am i 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 play for for the country so that's a different because the disability it at the end 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 that 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 every 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 a had. 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 i. kind of regret about that but same time been successful in winning everything and being like i called red machine. around the world so that's to me i was lucky enough to play. my career in the sort of you know and the half of north america so about making more money do you think you 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 the ingredients all five of you. well that's a tough question for the answer because you know when you grow up in the system like a suit you know and you've got to regard 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 you want a lot of months earlier 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 train 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 that six so they gave me the 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 patients 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. difference why do you think that's a question isn't to be kept in a team well you know what he's been the most consistent player for the last ten years for some of the russian players number one number two he's been. i would say the oldest guy that you know right now thirty five. number three series he's been working eyes and he 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 can team what do you think so i can tell you. they cooper agaves team get other public mistaken they had fourteen captains fourteen captains from different in the show 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 and alliance is kind of the hawk it's there will always be much in the lines and the who play guess who but the players you have so they all like fourteen captains they all leaders and it seems 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 may 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

campbell couples who have more success are going to have to because you know there was there was people they know how to. make the team play well and bring didn't seem to get the win the struggles. it's a privilege to have that many captains of once you but talk to a lot of coaches i mean you had one of the most legendary coaches in say that union but also i was scared of him he was known to be like a ruthless man is fear also a factor driving you to success who is talking about the bus or talking about that is that he's already in today's game when you were playing in a seventeen. well in the well you played for without him it's human. you know you've got more choices so you're basically you know you doubt me and you have to be a general or cordial and the it's a soldier so you have no rights like to say anything so you just go out and play is that what it was like being an army when you are well everything you do but you play for the father of government seem. it's your goal it is you're talking about

the head coach had always been particular if he was a head coach whether that means him and also for the nationals so basically you have the same guy also the wall for eleven months and the next season again and season after again very scared of him it's not scary always so you know it's something at some point you start to rebel against like a coach gets he's got there should because you argue it's a great game but it's not. useful life course you know you it's mutual you go. to work and the joy did you enjoy the game and the best thing. after that so you got to have some personal life too about that you have that today's world under this 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 bit different in different state than. twenty years ago you know you can see the countries like norway denmark switzerland a lot. they'll have a good teams germany so everybody play how can i say it's not easy to go against slovenia like that a. russian team play against slovenia and. they will have a difficult time because everybody can play well but also like 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 i don't think you should talk about that though obviously you were coming to support it about that when you're going to like the. what if what i thought before your civil suit looking about that in america about the miracle on ice when the team you say. assembled by from. players from colleges in the united states and the beat one of the best teams in the history of sorts here and 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 it's all about so now we we move into like a stage of the. one who's going to quarterfinals. you're going to see. on the air when the players start to play because every mistake every little detail every. remark he thinks happens in the days going to go to. you or are going to bring you down and they're going to lose that chance to move on to the next round and to 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 i can

now about the. 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 like your chance like home. you have a best players and there's a whole country behind you it's very very expensive games you know so you have to go out and do your best and that's the unfortunate fortune of the everybody is saying like in the media. go so that you suggest hockey it's a lot of different used to be and but the hockey soccer successful sort of forget about every loss like a but. by a long or a speed skating or illusion or. actual trick or whatever they call sports only picks so should be the champions who really do with win the gold medals and the as

i can see him and the pics and we have the old medals in other sports we've been successful because i'm sure everybody will see the best of that's the old still there you know that hanna thank you very. wealthy british style holds. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause

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