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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Somewhere there are Russians looking at pics of Nunavut, and saying: "Canada is a frozen wasteland!" and seeing it as representative of Canada, and that people are all basically evenly spread out in Canada. That seems to mimic what some posters are doing here.
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, etc. - way warmer than Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary during the winter. They all have much milder winters. I would be surprised if the majority of hockey players from Russia had ever experienced -30 celicus weather before, actually. Look at the population map of Russia, and then overlay it with the average temperature map of Russia. I would bet they correlate rather nicely. Probably just as nicely as Canada's does.
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Moscow, St Petersburg are most certainly not way warmer than Calgary and I expect most Russian hockey players are very familiar with minus 30.
Moscow in particular. I have been there in November and it was pretty damn close to Minus 30 then.