The tie against Canada may quiet the criticism Russia's junior hockey team is getting at home, but there are rumblings that changes in that country's hockey system are looming.
Russian sports minister Viacheslav Fetisov, a former NHL player and decorated Russian national team player, told the financial publication Kommersant prior to Friday's game that youth hockey needs a revamp and that a wider net has to be cast for talent.
Sound familiar? When Canada finished out of the medals at the 1998 Olympics, which was the first year NHL players were involved, the question was asked across the country: What's wrong with our hockey?
Joe's Note: In some ways this Super Series may be the best thing that has happened in Russian hockey since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Russian hockey, for many reasons, has been in disarray for quite some time.
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