In the 1950s, Anatoli Tarasov, a Russian football coach, was asked to create a Russian hockey team, primarily for propaganda purposes. Famously, Tarasov didn’t watch any hockey. Instead, he read the rule book, over and over, until he felt he understood the game. Then he used his football background to devise a system of hockey that became well known to Canadians in the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union.
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