Word: evgeni
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...Heatley dribbled a soft pass to Jarome Iginla in front of the Russian net that the former leading goal scorer in the National Hockey League would normally bury into the goal. Instead, Iginla struggled momentarily to control the puck, then banged it once, twice, and again at Russian goaltender Evgeni Nabokov. When the whistle blew, the puck trapped, Iginla stood in frozen disbelief. That missed opportunity in Wednesday's loss to Russia summed up an Olympic tournament of utter frustration for a Canadian team that could neither relax, nor cope with the high-paced European game...
...side, either Alexei Yagudin, a three-time world champion, or his teammate Evgeni Plushenko, the reigning world gold medalist, will probably keep up the golden streak of Russian champions established in the past three Winter Games. Yagudin, who trains in the U.S., is a passionate performer and is eager to redeem his fifth-place finish in Nagano, where he was laid low by the flu. Plushenko is just as accomplished but far less polished. His program music is usually a bewildering pastiche of movie sound tracks, and the choreography is just as disjointed, but he never fails to impress with...