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Today we will be discussing the Russian Five's background, NHL career, and the post cup accident.

• During the Cold War, the best hockey players in the Soviet Union were not allowed to leave to play in the National Hockey League 
• Before 1989, Victor Nechayev, who played three games for the Los Angeles Kings, was the only player from the USSR to play in the NHL. 

The five players were:

• Sergei Fedorov -  Center, 
• Vladimir Konstantinov - Defensemen, 
• Slava Kozlov -  Winger, 
• Slava Fetisov - Defensemen, 
• Igor Larionov - Winger, 

• Coached by Scotty Bowman, who is widely regarded as the greatest hockey coach of all time, played the five Russians together as a unit for much of the 1995–96 season. 
• By that time, there were 55 Russians playing in the NHL.
• At the end of the regular season, the five Russians had scored a whopping 117 of the Red Wings' 325 goals
•  The team won an NHL-record 62 games, but eventually fell to the Colorado Avalanche in six games in the Western Conference Finals, the series before the stanley cup.
• In the 1997 playoffs, the Russian Five were a critical part of each series.

• Detroit faced the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1997 Stanley Cup Finals. 
• Prior to the series, most hockey commentators believed that the Flyers would be too much for the wings to handle
• However, the Red Wings surprised most observers by being the more physical team and possibly breaking the stereotype that Russians and Europeans in general are “soft” hockey players.
• One man that stood out in that category was Konstantinov
• The Red Wings shockingly swept the Flyers and won their first Stanley Cup in 42 years.
• At the conclusion of Game 4, the Stanley Cup was presented to the winning team's captain, Steve Yzerman, who hoisted it above his head and skated the traditional victory lap around Joe Louis Arena.
• He then handed the Cup to Slava Fetisov, the now-39-year-old former captain of the Red Army club.
• The Red Wings players and coaches dedicated their efforts the following season to Konstantinov and Mnatsakanov. 
• The Red Wings managed the rare feat of repeating as Stanley Cup Champions, sweeping

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Today we will be discussing the Early Life Playing Career and downfall of Mike Vick.

• Vick was born in Newport News, Virginia 
• In a 2001 interview, Vick told the Newport News Daily Press that when he was 10 or 11, "I would go fishing even if the fish weren't biting, just to get away from the violence and stress of daily life in the projects."
• Vic was only 3 years old when his father started to teach him the fundamentals of football.
• As a freshman, he impressed many with his athletic ability; he threw for over 400 yards in a game that year. 
• Ferguson High School was closed in 1996 as part of a Newport News Public Schools building modernization program. Due to this, Vick, a sophomore at the time, and coach Tommy Reamon both moved to Warwick High School.
• Under Reamon's coaching, he passed for 4,846 yards with 43 touchdowns. He added 1,048 yards and 18 scores on the ground. 
• Vick chose to attend Virginia Tech
• He led the Hokies to an 11–0 undefeated season and to the Bowl Championship Series national title game in the Nokia Sugar Bowl against Florida State. 
• Vick won both an ESPY Award as the nation's top college player and the first-ever Archie Griffin Award as college football's most valuable player. 
• He was invited to the 1999 Heisman Trophy presentation and finished third in the voting behind Ron Dayne and Joe Hamilton. 
• Vick left Virginia Tech after his redshirt sophomore season.

• Vick was selected first in the 2001 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons, becoming the first African-American quarterback to be taken with the top pick.
• Vick set a then-NFL record for most rushing yards by a quarterback in a single game with 173 against the Minnesota Vikings on December 1, broken by Colin Kaepernick (181) in 2013. He tied for third in team history for the best touchdown-to-interception ratio in a season. He had a streak of 177 passes without an interception as the Falcons finished with a 9–6–1 win-loss-tie record and reached the playoffs.
•  On January 4, 2003, Vick led the Falcons to an upset victory over the heavily favored Green Bay Packers 27–7 in the first playoff round. The Falcons lost 20–6 to the Donovan McNabb-led Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football Conference divisional playoff game the following week. Vick was named to his first Pro Bowl after the season.
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