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And we would skate for five, ten minutes.

Your cheeks become white.

That's where you have to go back.

get something warm like, not cotton, but cashmere, and you start doing this, make sure you didn't get frostbite.

That's what, that's what we did.

And, uh, I had so much, uh, uh, opportunities and, um, I had so much sort of ice time, uh, that I always were doing either shoveling snow or, and skating, or I will be like at the school.

Then I would have practice.

Then I do my homework.

Then at night until 10 or 11, I would play, uh, right in front of my sort of apartment building with, uh,

friends and um that's how life uh would go but definitely ice imagine real ice and probably that thick at the end of the season and sunny day and it's 33 meters wide and you're just skating with the parks and it sounds so good you know that ice would break underneath of your skates

At a time, we started getting not steel skates, but already plastic skates.

The one the whole world is now playing.

Before, my skates were like, I don't know, three and a half kilos each.

Then when we got those light ones, it was an amazing feeling.

And hockey was a dynamic sport.

And it seems to me I get a whole idea how to play.

And obviously, my father was around for all of this.

Yeah, I said about Igor Slava, Vladimir Krutov, Sergey Makarov, Alexey Kasatonov, Vyacheslav Bykov, Valery Kamensky.

I don't know if you can relate to those names.

But a few of those guys play in the NHL.