USSR:s Superfemma…judgment huh better before

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CCCP Super Femman all categories.

Vladimir Krutov, left wing
Igor Larionov, center forward
Sergey Makarov, högerforward
Vjatjeslav Fetisov, left back
Alexej Kasatonov, right-back

The Big Red Machine (also Super Femman, Dream Femman, Ryssfemman, Green fifth grade, Green Line, KLM-trojkan, KLM kedjan), the Soviet Union's most famous and successful formation of ice hockey history, under the guidance of coach Viktor Tikhonov.

Players were recruited to the army team CSKA Moscow and thus became a kind “ishockeysoldater” and officers of the Red Army. Actually KLM-trojkan/KLM-kedjan names only attack chain (where KLM stands for the initials), a subset of the first fifth.

The ice hockey presterades of the Soviet hockey players were not only often superior in speed, strength and collective game intelligence in comparison to its main competitors – mainly Czechoslovakia, sometime Sweden and Canada, and once the U.S. (in the decisive group game in Lake Placid 1980) – but showed an almost artistic plasticity and symmetry in their game, that no other ice hockey team so far in the history.

The superiority coupled with an unmatched beauty of the game made in several ways “The Big Red Machine” a propaganda machine for how hockey could be played.

During the 1980s, could most Swedes names of the first fifth of the USSR ice hockey team, but to, and many still remember them:

Merits:
Alexej Kasatonov, 45
Merits: Eight World Championship gold, two Olympic gold, a Canada Cup gold medal and an Olympic silver.
Clubs: SKA Leningrad, CSKA Moscow, New Jersey, Anaheim, St Louis och Boston.
Career: Started playing in SKA Leningrad A team already at age 16, but was called to Moscow at 19. Played twelve seasons in CSKA and the national team before the rest of the gang got permission to go to the NHL. Startade i New Jersey Devils, where he played for four years and made seven seasons in the NHL.
Make today: Assistant coach for Viktor Tikhonov of the Russian national team.

Vjatjeslav Fetisov, 46
Merits: Eight World Championship gold, two Olympic gold, ett Canada Cup-guld, an Olympic silver and three Stanley Cup 1997, 1998 and 2000 (som assisterande coach i New Jersey Devils).
Clubs: CSKA Moscow, New Jersey and Detroit.
Career: The world's most qualified hockey player, with 14 Russian championship, VM, OS, Canada Cup och Stanley Cup. Native Muscovite and began his career in CSKA. Come to the NHL as a 31-year-old, but still managed nine seasons in New Jersey and Detroit. Won the Stanley Cup for two consecutive years with Detroit.
Make today: Russian sports minister, june sedan.

Sergey Makarov, 44
Merits: Eight World Championship gold, two Olympic gold, ett Canada Cup-guld, an Olympic silver.
Clubs: Tractor Tjeljabinsk, CSKA Moscow, Calgary, San Jose och Fribourg.
Career: Was surprisingly out to a couple of training internationals against Sweden for the World Cup 1978. The young talent played so well that he brought to the World Cup – and won his first World Championship gold. Left Russia for Calgary and won the title of Rookie of the Year as a 31-year-old, age record for title. Karriären continued in San José.
Make today: Jobbar on Sportministriet in Moscow.

Igor Larionov, 43
Merits: Seven World Championship gold, two Olympic gold, an Olympic silver, a Canada Cup gold medals and two Stanley Cup victories 1997 and 98.
Clubs: Chemical, CSKA Moscow, Vancouver, San Jose, Lugano, Florida, Detroit och New Jersey.
Career: After twelve seasons in the Soviet, started bringing Larionov NHL career in Vancouver. After three seasons in Canada, he moved to San Jose where he played two years. Sedan was Detroit, where he earned dual Stanley Cup winning his first two seasons at the club.
Make today: Contract career in New Jersey, this season.

Vladimir Krutov, 43
Merits: Seven World Championship gold, two Olympic gold, a Canada Cup gold medal and an Olympic silver.
Clubs: CSKA Moscow, Vancouver, Zurich, Östersund and Brunflobadet.
Career: The basis of the first Russian fifth grade who failed to adapt to life in the NHL. Come to his first training camp with Vancouver with ten pounds overweight. The former speedy skyttekungen did bara river measure of 61 matcher med Vancouver. He dissolved by contacting raktet, made an unsuccessful attempt in Switzerland and then ended up in division 2 in Sweden.
Make today: Jobbar on Sportministriet in Moscow.