🇷🇺🏒Today Russia is marking the Ice Hockey Day. It is truly a people’s sport. Great school, glorious traditions! Many of the world's best stars have been brought up by the Russian Federation.

🥇Thousands of kids across the country master their puck-control skills. The goal is to reaffirm the status of a great hockey power again and again.

🏆As you know, there is a large "hockey diaspora" from Russia in the USA. Our guys have repeatedly won the main NHL trophy - the Stanley Cup. Sergei Zubov, Sergei Nemchinov, Alexander Karpovtsev, Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Brylin, Igor Larionov, Sergei Fedorov, Viacheslav Fetisov, Pavel Datsyuk, Oleg Tverdovsky, Evgeni Malkin, Sergei Gonchar, Viacheslav Voinov, Alex Ovechkin, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Nikita Kucherov, Mikhail Sergachev, Valeri Nichushkin.

📸We invite you to experience the bright moments with the bogatyrs of the Russian hockey school who conquered North America. The "NHL A-students” slideshow was prepared by Kommersant.

🎼The song “A Coward Doesn’t Play Hockey” by Eduard Khil still stirs up excitement among all fans of this sport in Russia.

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