Hockey. Pioneers and Newcomers

Anatoly Tarasov is the brightest and most multifaceted coaching figure in our hockey history, the founder of the domestic hockey school, and a true genius of training. He was our main promoter of hockey traditions and an authority in the hockey world.
The text of this book was typed on a typewriter by him personally. In the pages of paper yellowed with age, the publishers found Anatoly Vladimirovich’s stories about Canadians—the founders of hockey—and about the Russians who went their own way in the sport; about the work of the hockey mentor, about how he shaped and honed distinctive talents; about his star protégés—Firsov, Kharlamov, Tret’yak… About the long duel between the USSR/Russia and Canada, about the hockey of the future, and much more—things that only this great man could have known and spoken about.