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| leigh |
Posted - 11/24/2014 : 14:12:34
What a brutal day for hockey on a global scale...
Viktor Tikhonov, legendary Soviet Coach (3x Olympic Gold) died today as well (as Pat Quinn). I'll never forget watching Olympic hockey with my family and hearing my father and my uncles curse him in one breath and talk about how genius he was in another. Very well respected on both sides of the ocean.
MOSCOW - Viktor Tikhonov, the Soviet hockey coach whose teams won three Olympic gold medals but fell to the United States in the "Miracle on Ice," died after a long illness. He was 84.
Russia's Kontinental Hockey League said early Monday that Tikhonov died during the night. He had been receiving treatment at home for an undisclosed illness that had left him unable to walk in recent weeks.
"The entire global hockey community has lost a great coach," Vladislav Tretiak, who played goalie for Tikhonov's Soviet team and now heads the Russian Hockey Federation, told Russia's R-Sport news agency.
"He devoted his entire life to hockey until the last second. Even when I was with him in hospital, we were discussing what needed to be done and how, in order to raise the Russian national team to the very highest level."
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to Tikhonov's family, the Kremlin said. The Russian Sports Ministry called his death an "irreplaceable loss" for hockey fans worldwide.
While a successful player, winning four Soviet titles as a defenceman, Tikhonov came into his own during 14 years in charge of the Soviet national team.
Under Tikhonov, the Soviet "Big Red Machine" was a powerhouse, although it had to settle for the silver medal at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid after the stunning defeat to the United States.
Tikhonov's teams went on to win Olympic gold in 1984 and 1988, and he took the post-Soviet Unified Team to another gold at the 1992 Games. He also led the Soviet team to eight world championship titles.
Read More....http://www.tsn.ca/soviet-coaching-great-viktor-tikhonov-passes-away-at-84-1.142862 |
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| just1n |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 13:48:51
I saw the documentary "Red Army" at a film festival, I highly recommend it. Slava Fetisov hated Tikhonov and eventually quit the national team, which as you can imagine was a big deal in the USSR.
Check out the trailer - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3264102/ |
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