Talk:Soviet Union national ice hockey team
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The following sentence appeared not long ago, with a claim that this is a NPOV: Professioanlly however, they were only able to win one Canada Cup in 1981, a tournament that allowed professional hockey players to play.
However, in the article Ice Hockey World Championships is stated, that in 1977 a new president of the IIHF finally allowed professionals on all teams. See also this fact mentioned in the Ice Hockey History on the official IIHF website [1] and here [2]. The similar statement I found in the 1988 Guinness Book of World Records: since 1977 professionals allowed to play in IIHF competitions, including World Championships and Olympics. So, professionally the Soviet national ice hockey team won also World Ice Hockey Championships in 1978-1983, 1986, 1989, 1990 and Winter Olympics Ice Hockey Tournament in 1984, 1988, 1992
Next time, please, don't claim that your addition is NPOV until you get your facts straight. Cmapm 13:24, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I think you should add to this that these tournaments were played during the NHL playoffs wich means that Canada, USA, Sweden and Finland never boasted all their best players in these tournaments. God, with this kind of censorship you must be a commie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.248.136.187 (talk) 19:08, August 29, 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Excuses for Canada
In general, I think, that all excuses and explanations of Canada's loses in World Championships and Olympic tournaments should be placed in the article Canadian national men's ice hockey team, all it's "unprofessionalism" during 1920-1977 should also be mentioned there. This is an article about Soviet national ice hockey team. Cmapm 17:37, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] The Challenge Cup
should be probably added to Summit Series. May be even Randevous also. Or at least mentioned uder a separate category "Other tournaments". Gaidash 6 July 2005 18:00 (UTC)
[edit] 1980 Olympics
The Soviet team won silver in 1980 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.44.130 (talk • contribs)
- Yeah, pasting "bronze in 1980" into Soviet squad-related pages is a widespread error. The source for "silver in 1980" is, e.g. official website of the IOC: [3]. The point is that the competition system in the medal round was round-robin, not play-offs. More links on this old question are available at Talk:Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Cmapm 01:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Advantage"
I removed the following sentence: "Soviet players never played in the NHL prior to the late 1980s, giving them an advantage in these tournaments."
Well, guys, have you noticed, that NHL players had a similar "advantage", as they never played in the Soviet League? Cmapm 09:20, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Were we talking about the soviet domination in the World Championships and Olympics? If so, in what way does the Canadians have an advantage since they not with full force could participate in the aforementioned tournamnets? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.248.136.187 (talk) 19:02, August 29, 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Soviet's dominance
"The Soviets were one of the most dominant teams of all time in international play." - This comes across as an understatement really. They earned a medal in every Olympics or World Cup they participated, most of the medals being gold. Second best at earning medals in WC is according to Ice Hockey World Championships Canada - with comparably mere 72%. Lejman 00:50, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Unified team
I want to learn the situation in 1992 games. As far as I know, there wasn't a country named Soviet Union back in 1992 so how could it win the games? A team under the name of Unified Team played in the games not the USSR team. I mean at least legally, you have to exist before you win something. Deliogul (talk) 14:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for mentioning that. It appears to have been an oversight. The Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics has been mentioned. Flibirigit (talk) 15:25, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
