Word: valeri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet coach Constantine Loktev sent his team to the dressing room when Flyers defenseman Ed Van Impe decked high-scoring Soviet star Valeri Kharlamov midway through a scoreless first period...
...games begin Dec. 28, and the two Russian clubs are going to be anything but pushovers. The Central Army team, a perennial power in Soviet hockey, will play with an attack line that may be the most potent in the world: Left Wing Valeri Kharlamov, a deft puck handler; Center Vladimir Petrov, a tireless speedster; and Right Wing Boris Mikhailov, a veteran considered by many to be "the soul of the team." Behind them in goal will be Vladislav Tretiak, nemesis of Team Canada in 1972. The other team, the Soviet Wings, beefed up for the games with extra players...
...Aviv's Palace of Culture was tense with the hope of a long deferred promise about to be gloriously fulfilled. Valeri Panov and his wife Galina Ragozina were making their first appearance in the West, after two years of enforced idleness in Leningrad waiting for emigration visas. After a sparkling pas de deux from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, the audience of 3,000 relaxed, relieved to discover that the two dancers easily reestablished their reputations. Said one fan: "He took off like a jet." And when the Panovs completed the program with Valeri's own choreography...
Playing on foreign ice, the Soviets showed that they were individually better conditioned and collectively better coordinated than their slick, freewheeling Canadian counterparts. Their intricate, puck-control game often confounded N.H.L. defense men; flashy Forward Valeri Kharlamov, who scored three goals in the first three contests, may be as good as the N.H.L.'s best. Whatever the outcome of the series, Russia has established itself as a hockey superpower, a worthy match for the men whose forebears invented the modern game...
...interview with the Herald-Traveler Friday, Bond said "I'm sure Valeri has told them a lot. Fortunately, he doesn't know a great deal. Incidentally, Valeri ought to be shot if he's implicated with people like Fleisher." Why is Bond criticizing Valeri for associating with Fleisher when Fleisher allegedly helped Bond escape...