Perhaps the only endorsement required is this one. From The Great One, who had a pretty good view of everything that mattered. “I don’t think you’ll ever see better hockey than what was played in that ...

He knows the ritual; how the country is primed to project its pride and lofty expectations onto a group of hockey-playing teenage boys. He knows, too, what that felt like and what people continue to ...

Moscow, in the winter of 1987, was a dreary inhospitable place for the start of the annual Izvestia hockey tournament. The Soviet Union was wheezing towards its political end, and in the last days of ...

You wouldn’t have figured that this lineup needed to find more goals. But Team Canada head coach Mike Keenan decided to play the two greatest players of their generation on the same line for most of ...