Happy Birthday, Russia Hockey!

Nine Olympic gold medals, 27 world championships and a tactical brilliance that changed the game. Where do we begin to encapsulate 75 years?

Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky once described the light in Saint Petersburg as “pale and diffused, one in which both memory and eye operate with unusual sharpness.” He goes on to note, “In this light, and thanks to the directness and length of the streets, a walker’s thoughts travel farther than his destination.”

The weather in Saint Petersburg is …