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Russia's Strategic Use of Hockey for International Goodwill
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4/9/2025
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but you have to wonder why are the russians doing this in that you know i mean what's what's their
00:06
motive right why are the russians suddenly being so nice and letting their players go when they
00:11
were so adamant about not doing it uh before i think it's because it's the one thing that
00:16
putin loves uh so much is hockey and i think he's trying to use hockey as some sort of a little bit
00:22
of a little bit of an entry into goodwill hey look see we're not we're not all that bad we let
00:28
the kid go he's in the nhl right they're trying to get back into the international hockey community
00:34
and at least play and at some point it's something that's going to have to be brought up i mean whether
00:39
i you know i don't agree with a lot of things that a lot of people and countries do but
00:43
are we really gonna you're gonna ban the russian hockey team forever here
00:47
right i mean we just had four nations and it really wasn't a true true tournament we could
00:52
pretend it was but it really wasn't you know russians are pretty good at hockey so they kind
00:57
of got to be part of it but this demidoff kid you know listen man he's only he's like 19 years old
01:03
so he literally is a kid still yet he's been playing against men for years right so he played
01:09
in their mhl which is like their their minor league and then the khl which is the pro league
01:13
the kid in the khl man he was the rookie of the uh he was the rookie of the month three times
01:18
and he broke records as far as most points most goals for a player under 20 in a russian professional
01:26
league the track record is there the production is there he's played against men for years as well
01:33
like he really is a prodigy phenom and now the canadians get him for the stretch run here and
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you know you have to wonder okay this kid's a kid is he ready to go from like you know i mean it's the
01:46
khl is good but
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