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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

And perhaps the most telling stat...

Just an unreal team over the years. I'm not going to pretend to know everything about their history, but I would take them at their peak over any NHL team. My wish is that one day EA will incorporate their allstar team as a team you can control in that game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC_CSKA_Moscow

I'd love to see an all-time HC CKSA lineup vs the all-time best NHL lineup.

CKSA was a stacked team that had all of Russia's best players on it. Being that it was basicaly an allstar team it would be a bit unfair to comapre their records against individual NHL teams.

That being said one of the greatest games ever played was the 1975 New Years eve clash against the Canadiens that resulted in a 3-3 tie.

Montreal’s roster was so good that even today, Red Army captain Boris Mikhailov can recite the names without hesitation. “At that time, in the Soviet press, there was a lot about Montreal, Toronto, and Detroit, but mostly Montreal,” said Mikhailov. “We regarded Montreal as the top NHL team, because we knew about all their great players.”

Boris Mikhailov: “On a club level, it was probably the best game ever played. It was very skillful, very intense.”

Vladislav Tretiak: “As far as I’m concerned, this is what the game of hockey is all about. I would love to play it over again.”

Red Fisher, Montreal Gazette: “The Habs deserved infinitely better, because on this night they made the Soviet Superman Theory look like Swiss cheese.”

Joe Pelletier, international hockey author: “Artistically, it was an absolute joy to watch.”

Szymon Szemberg, International Ice Hockey Federation spokesman: “It showed the Canadiens could play sophisticated hockey and skate with the Soviets, whereas most Europeans thought then that the NHLers could only dump and chase and rough it up.”

http://hockeyadventure.com/2007/08/1...-army-in-1975/