Slava Fetisov is by any measure and in any era a hockey hero, and one of the biggest. Forget for a moment the talent, the records, the Olympic gold and the Stanley Cups earned as both player and coach. His fight to change the Soviet player development system (most recently documented in the art-house hit Red Army) made it possible for him — and for Sergei Zubov and Evgeni Malkin and Alex Ovechkin and Vladimir Tarasenko and Nikita Kucherov and Valeri Nichushkin and so many more — to choose where they would make their sporting careers.
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Russian is the New Russian
