Michael Farber: Tretiak's Olympic intrigue, best first-passers, more notes

Team Russia's new Olympic GM has been implicated in espionage by a book A defenseman's first pass is crucial to starting an attack; an underappreciated art Toronto imported two first-pair defenders, but got the wrong half of the duos Legendary goalie Vladislav Tretiak hopes to again bedevil Canada, as Russia's GM. Vladislav Tretiak might be the Olympic hockey general manager who is coming in from the cold. Tretiak, president of the Russian ice hockey federation, was named Monday as his country's GM for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. While this clearly is an upgrade over Pavel Bure in Turin 2006 -- at the time, we noted that Bure was known as the Russian Rocket and not the Russian Rocket Scientist -- Team Russia still would have been better served by tapping into one of the great hockey brains: Igor Larionov, The Professor,... [read full story]                    

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