David Greene talks to Slava Fetisov about the state of hockey following worsening relations with Russia. Fetisov played for the national Red Army team whose players were in the Soviet military.

While you'll find the perfunctory highlights and archived evidence of Russia's hockey acumen, the film is wonderfully spliced by sidebars between Fetisov (whose nickname is "Slava") and director ...

The setting is the old Olympic arena in Lake Placid, N.Y. Russian hockey legend Viacheslav “Slava” Fetisov has made a special trip there with his daughter, Anastasia. On the drive over ...

Viacheslav ‘Slava’ Fetisov doesn’t believe in speaking ill ... time and when he almost derailed his dream of playing in the NHL. But mores are mores, and Fetisov isn’t about to violate ...

“Slava didn’t do any TV interviews that first ... recounting the resentment he faced from North Americans following his move to the NHL, Fetisov cites the south-Boston born John Cunniff ...

and another in 2002 with two of them still on the NHL club's roster. The Russian five consisted of Sergei Fedorov, Slava Fetisov, Slava Kozlov, Igor Larionov and Vladimir Konstantinov. On May 31 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Former Detroit Red Wings star Slava Fetisov has called for Russia to reintroduce Soviet-style restrictions to prevent promising young hockey players from moving to the NHL.

Slava Fetisov was one of the greatest defensemen ... Union before he became one the first Russian stars to play in the NHL was largely untold until last year when two documentaries chronicling ...

On the blue line were two former Soviet national team captains, Slava Fetisov and Vladimir Konstantinov. International hockey was crashing the NHL party, and this would prove to be kryptonite ...

Reporting from CANNES, France — Slava Fetisov remembers the moment like it was yesterday, the knock on his U.S. hotel room door when he was visiting the country as captain of the Soviet hockey team.