Today, Feb. 11, marks the 75th birthday of the Mayorov boys, Boris and Evgeny. Geez, the things you learn on this blog. Boris and Evgeny were a little too old to play in the 1972 Summit Series, with both calling it quits in 1969 after long and fruitful careers with Moscow Spartak. Boris was the [...]

The answer is Alexander Kharlamov, son of the brilliant and legendary Soviet star Valeri Kharlamov. Bravo to Joe Pelletier for getting this right, even though I continue to pull my hair out and snarl menacingly because I’m not able to notch a shutout in the quiz department. Alexander was playing for Moscow Red Army when I took this photo outside [...]

Long-time NHL referee Lloyd Gilmour, a highly-respected individual who handled the 1976 Super Series game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Moscow Red Army in which the Russians left the ice for several minutes to protest the thuggery from the Broad Streeters, died last Wednesday, August 11, 2010. Joe Pelletier at Greatest Hockey Legends has all the details. Below [...]

  In September of 1990, the Montreal Canadiens and Minnesota North Stars travelled to the USSR as part of their training camp for the 90-91 season. It was a long way to go for a training camp, but there’s a lot of NHL fans over there, and in particular, Montreal Canadiens fans, and this was [...]

Drafted 28th by the Phoenix Coyotes was a young fellow named Victor Tikhonov. Tikhonov is the grandson of legendary Soviet coach and taskmaster Victor Tikhonov, who we’re all seen over the years getting nasty with his Red Army and Russian National team players. Grandpa Tikhonov was the cause of the bitter feud between Alexei Kasatonov and [...]