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hangman005

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...can't EVER want Toronto to win...I'd hope for the Red Army first... :eek3:

I would say that it’s more like that I want Calgary to lose in regulation. They just so happen to be playing Toronto tonight. I’m a vacuum, I don’t want Toronto to win, ever.

When you first said Red Army, I immediately thought CSKA Moscow, since while I don’t remember the Russian, “CSKA” stands for “Central Sport Club of the Army” in English.
 
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I would say that it’s more like that I want Calgary to lose in regulation. They just so happen to be playing Toronto tonight. I’m a vacuum, I don’t want Toronto to win, ever.

When you first said Red Army, I immediately thought CSKA Moscow, since while I don’t remember the Russian, “CSKA” stands for “Central Sport Club of the Army” in English.
I believe that is the old Red Army team.
 
I believe that is the old Red Army team.

CSKA Moscow’s hockey team back in the Soviet days were made up of commissioned officers with the hockey team “officially” being an after-hours club for the employees (CSKA wasn’t the only “club” like this). In practice their “job” was a no-show job and they trained in their sport full time. CSKA in particular was so dominant (and provided so many players for the national team) is that with military service being compulsory (I think), if you were among the best at your sport you were promoted to being a commissioned officer (on paper) in order to play that sport for CSKA.

That’s also how Soviet teams got around the “amateurism” rules for the Olympics of the time.
 
CSKA Moscow’s hockey team back in the Soviet days were made up of commissioned officers with the hockey team “officially” being an after-hours club for the employees (CSKA wasn’t the only “club” like this). In practice their “job” was a no-show job and they trained in their sport full time. CSKA in particular was so dominant (and provided so many players for the national team) is that with military service being compulsory (I think), if you were among the best at your sport you were promoted to being a commissioned officer (on paper) in order to play that sport for CSKA.

That’s also how Soviet teams got around the “amateurism” rules for the Olympics of the time.
Yes, that is why 1980 was a “Miracle”.
 
...why you gotta make me feel old again... :(


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I’m at that fun age and combination of online communities I frequent where if I go on HF I feel young, but if I go on Discord I feel old.

I remember reading this year’s Super Bowl halftime show being universally hated here while it was going on, then I made a negative comment about it on Discord and all the kids ganged up on me for saying it.
 
I’m at that fun age and combination of online communities I frequent where if I go on HF I feel young, but if I go on Discord I feel old.

I remember reading this year’s Super Bowl halftime show being universally hated here while it was going on, then I made a negative comment about it on Discord and all the kids ganged up on me for saying it.

...lol...I'm at the age where a few of my old military buddies that live in the area all meet up for breakfast at Tim Horton's or A&W once a week and complain about the damp weather and various Old Man problems... :biglaugh:
 
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It’s always “fun” when you run into situations where everyone knows something because of how obvious it is, but you can’t prove it on paper so can’t do anything about it. Then we beat them anyway. Too bad I wasn’t even alive back in 1980.
I was only a young hockey nut, recently exiled to no-hockey-yet FL. it was incredible to watch on ABC and then to see the whole country going crazy for hockey. Many may not have known much about hockey, but the one thing they did know was the US “didn’t have a chance” against the Soviet Red Army professional amateur team.
Like a nationwide Stanley Cup parade. But, of course the reasons for the euphoria went far beyond hockey.
 
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