One small point: If we’re going historically, Anatoli Tarasov would be considered the father of hockey in the Soviet era. I had a copy of his memoir Road to Olympus in the 70s, impossible to find now, though I do have a reprint paperback with a cheesy retitling of Russian Hockey Secrets (only one copy on abebooks and at was listed for $300).
One small point: If we’re going historically, Anatoli Tarasov would be considered the father of hockey in the Soviet era. I had a copy of his memoir Road to Olympus in the 70s, impossible to find now, though I do have a reprint paperback with a cheesy retitling of Russian Hockey Secrets (only one copy on abebooks and at was listed for $300).
That’s a great catch. And I even credited him in this old one — https://open.substack.com/pub/neilpaine/p/meet-the-man-behind-the-nhls-russian?r=gwh9&utm_medium=ios — but forgot to this time. “Road to Olympus” is such a more epic title, haha.