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Buy a car, buy a furniture, maybe rent an apartment, where to go eat because Detroit was not safe downtown.

some areas, you know, so I show them around and, uh, it was, it was definitely easier, definitely easier to have a couple of Russians on the team.

And obviously first year was a nerve wracking because, uh,

From 33 meters to 26 or 25, it was playing like in a phone booth 5 on 5, you know.

I always kind of say this.

I'm glad I came at 20 because it's easier to adjust.

Obviously, all this training in four years prolonged me for 20 years in the National Hockey League.

That's amazing luggage that I got from Red Army and be able to throw this power in the National Hockey League.

But as soon as I understand English, I understand drills, I understand how coaches like to see.

It was not that difficult because in Russia we have way more

Like, coach, pregame meeting could be 20, could be 30, could be 40 minutes.

In NHL, it's 5, 7, 10 minutes tops.

That was really living your life.

40 minutes.

Well, they would go line by line by line by line.

So every line would get instructions for 10 minutes.

Including those superstars I was talking about earlier.

And it was reasonable, but it was so detailed, so to the point and stuff like that.

When you think of the Russian Five and you guys, you guys changed the way the game was played, right?

And you see it more now.