How could the Soviet Union lose to the overmatched USA team in the Miracle on Ice ... in this week's Sports Illustrated — says then-CCCP coach Tikhonov was beholden to the KGB and favored ...

In 1974, the fledgling World Hockey Association knew one sure way to spell credibility: CCCP. Those block letters, on the front of Soviet national team sweaters, garnered immediate respect in ...

Team Canada’s game seems like something from the ancient past of hockey, when the goal was to stickhandle the puck up the ice. The CCCP, on the other hand, played a much more modern style of ...