Russian President Vladimir Putin scored five goals in an exhibition hockey game with former NHL stars on Thursday.
In what has become an annual tradition given ample airtime on state TV, Putin played on a “Legends of Hockey” team, alongside big names of the past, such as Pavel Bure and Slava Fetisov.
The opposition was comprised of amateur players, plus a governor and a pro-Putin billionaire. Putin’s team won the mostly slow-paced game 12-7.
Five goals was on the low side by Putin’s standards — he scored eight in the 2015 game and seven last year. The 65-year-old Russian president took up hockey late in life after being a keen judo competitor in his youth.
Amateur-league hockey players set a “wonderful example” for ordinary Russians, Putin said, adding “thanks to you, millions of people make a choice in favour of a healthy lifestyle.”
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Actually I thought that the wings thing was opposite in soviet Russia
here the left is liberal and the right is conservative
In soviet Russian the Left is Conservative and the Right is Liberal, and since Putin is far from Liberal he's a natural Left Winger
And we don't need anymore of those.
Both here and in Russia, the Communist Party stands on the extreme Left. The meaning of ‘conservative’ depends entirely on the existing structure of society that you are trying to conserve – and conservatives in Russia are trying to conserve what's left of the Soviet system.
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Any info on who the Safeway score and win winner is?
Dmitri Medvedev.
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Amateur-league hockey players set a “wonderful example” for ordinary Russians, Putin said, adding “thanks to you, millions of people make a choice in favour of a healthy lifestyle.
Amateur-league hockey players set a “wonderful example” for ordinary Russians, Putin said, adding “thanks to you, millions of people make a choice in favour of a healthy lifestyle.
Is that even possible in Russia?
You're talking about a country where average life expectancy for men is approximately 10 years less than the rest of the developed world, simply because so many people drink themselves to death. Everything is relative.
Putin scores 5 goals in exhibition hockey game with former NHLers
