While Canada narrowly clawed past the Soviets on ... tentative efforts to melt the ice between the United States and Russia, hockey diplomacy has come back to the fore. In March, amid a phone ...

“Russia has a great hockey tradition. We have great Russian ... and the USSR played Canada in Summit Series in ‘72 and ’74.

Whether ice hockey can help to "humanise" modern-day Russia more than half a century ... North American neighbours the United States and Canada. In February, a clash on the ice between the ...