Vladislav Tretiak might be the Olympic hockey general ... Russian elected to the Toronto-based Hockey Hall of Fame.) The goalie has been embraced as an honorary Canadian, which gets us to the ...

A couple of years later, John used his friendship with Fargo's Scott Bye, a financial adviser for NHLers, to meet Blackhawks goalie Ed Belfour, who had been working with Vladislav Tretiak ...

SOCHI, Russia — Vladislav Tretiak initially deflected a question as if he was making a kick save to keep a puck out of his net. Moments later, perhaps after pondering his response, the Hall of ...

Max Tretiak wasn't born until nearly a quarter century after his grandfather, Vladislav, came within a whisker of leading the Russians to a shocking upset of Team Canada in 1972. And his father ...

Tretiak was a star on the great Soviet Union hockey teams of the 1970s and '80s, and is usually called the best goalie ever by those who saw him play. He was the first Russian-born player to enter ...