Extremely interesting by Gillian, in view of #WorldJuniors There is a straight link from Tarasov to Larionov to today’s edition of Team Russia. Tarasov’s legacy is still felt in the NHL today where meaningless fighting and overemphasized “energy” lines are phased out and > https://twitter.com/gilliankemmerer/status/1341854466132369409
> replaced by possession. The challenge with playing this style efficiently you need to have been trained to do this from a very early age, you must be very talented and the team needs to spend lots of practice time together. All these things are almost impossible on >
> an NHL-team over 82 games. The TB Lightning are the closest you can get. Also, not many national teams have the means to stay centralized for long periods of time like this Russian junior team. Still; skill, speed and possession are keys. Tarasov realized that 70 years ago.
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