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Valeri Kharlamov
NHL, the National Hockey League is a premier professional North American Sports League played in indoor stadiums. It’s divided into two conferences, each comprising of three divisions of ice hockey teams. The league was established in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec and it is composed of 30 teams out of which 24 teams based in U.S. and 6 in Canada. They have a regular season and playoffs leading to the Stanley Cup, which is the NHL Championship final.
Valeri Kharlamov was a well known hockey player who was inducted in the hall of fame in 2005. He was born on 14th January, 1948 in Moscow, Russia and died on 27th August 1981. He played in 14 international seasons from 1967 to 1981. As the political Cold War warmed enough to allow fans to observe the international competition between the Soviet Union and North America, Valeri Kharlamov appeared as the leading Russian left winger throughout the seventies. In fourteen seasons with the Soviet Red Army squad, Valeri gathered 293 goals and 214 assists for 507 points in 436 regular season games and was an essential part on eleven league championships from 1968 to 1981.
Kharlamov, in eleven successive International Ice Hockey Federation and European Championships, took eight gold medals, two silver and a bronze. He was named as the tournament All-Star in 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1976. He even took part in three Olympic tournaments, leading his Soviet team to gold medals in 1972 and 1976. In 1969, though just twenty one year old at that time, Valeri Kharlamov was recipient of the celebrated Russian sports title, Merited Master of Sport. Kharlamov was posthumously added to the International Ice Hockey Federation's Hall of Fame Honour Roll in 1998. Many will consider Valeri Kharlamov for his position in the 1972 Summit Series versus Team Canada.
Kharlamov combined superior hockey intelligence with outstanding natural talent and established himself as one of the most formidable weapons in the dominant Soviet arsenal during the decade.
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