A swagger that belies their youth September 7 (Filing from Vancouver) When veteran forward Vyacheslav Starshinov packed his skates for Canada, he also included a novel item for a professional hockey player: a lengthy two-page psychological questionnaire on hockey which he hopes will help him gain a master’s in philosophy. Read more…
Excitement mounted about the opening game in the series on September 2. My advance stories included a look at the two squads. September 1 Rating the squads — (Filing from Montreal) Professional hockey is machismo. The forms that scouts carry with them into the hinterlands have boxes for rating a Read more…
When Canada’s best took on the Russians, it was a Cold War on — and off —the ice. In the summer of 1972 Time magazine assigned me, the Toronto bureau chief, to cover an eight-game hockey series between a select team of NHL stars and the best players of Read more…