Slava Fetisov, former Russian and NHL hockey great, and now a senator in the Russian parliament, has called for prohibiting Russian hockey players from moving to North America before the age of 28 to play hockey. What if such a restriction existed in 2004?
On May 19th, the Associated Press reported that Slava Fetisov called for Russia to impose restrictions on Russian hockey players younger than 28 years of age, denying permission to move to North America to play hockey before reaching that age.
Fetisov, who moved to the NHL from Russia at the age of 31 after a long career with CSKA Moscow and the Soviet Union national team, cited the aim being to keep "our most talented guys, the ones who the people come to see.