Russian Hockey Trivia - Red Army to KHL

KHL, Kontinental Hockey League, NHL, hockey, sports, lockout, athletes, history, Cold War, Russia, USSR, Soviet Union, defectors, Marian Stastny, Peter Stastny, Paul Stastny, Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Sergei Fedorov, Alex Mogilny, Petr Nedved,

Some of the biggest stars in today's NHL are of Russian descent; but there was a time not so long ago that these players would never have been allowed to play in North America – at least not without putting up a brutal fight first. Covert operations to help talented players defect from the motherland were just the start of the drama. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com speaks with author Tal Pinchevsky about his book "Breakaway: From Behind the Iron Curtain to the NHL--The Untold Story of Hockey's Great Escapes." He gives us his top 5 trivia facts about the KHL, and the history of hockey in the Soviet Union.

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