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In Russia, our sort of regular championship was 34, 36 games.

And another games up to 90 or 80 games, we would pick up on the international tournaments, including World Cup or...

European Cup or Olympic Games and so on and so on.

Unreal.

As Biz mentioned, before we get to the Detroit team and the Cups, I'd love to go back to eight, nine-year-old Sergei Fedorov.

I imagine you were skating a lot of outdoor arenas.

What made you fall in love with the game and maybe a coach or your dad then?

I don't know how it worked in terms of you falling in love with the game of hockey.

Well, definitely in 78, I was nine years old.

We moved up north above Polar Circle.

It was nine months of the winter.

We would skate on real ice.

It would melt at March, but still it was good enough.

to skate and i live in a fifth five-story apartment so my school would be seven minutes walk and um my uh ice arena where my dad was working as a manager of the whole winter sports were like 10 minutes easy walk and behind over the if you cross the road was a was a soccer field

obviously, um, uh,

It was not green because it was cold.

But I live in an environment where everything was so close.

No need the car, no need nothing.

So if, let's say, we have like minus 30 Celsius and snow falling, school are closed.

We'll be at the rink right away.