Russian: Newsreel Clips and Hockey

russian: Russian hockey was coming to town! Twenty months earlier in Cortina, Italy, the Russian national team won hockey gold at its first Winter Olympics by defeating Canada representatives, the Allan Cup champion Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, 2-0, according to The Waterloo Record. In just 10 postwar years, Russia had not only reached the level Canadian hockey had taken 50 years to achieve but was introducing new styles of play that would transform the game over the next two decades. Six decades ago, Kitchener-Waterloo also had Russian sports headlines — for all the right reasons. Apart from short newsreel clips, few Canadians had ever seen the Russians play so this middle-of-the-Cold War, late-1957 tour was a sure sellout. Nevertheless, the game in Kitchener was seen as a chance for the Dutchmen to gain some revenge for the Olympic loss. Only six of the touring players had been on the Olympic roster: the remainder were from three Moscow clubs, giving rise to the nickname Moscow Selects. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.