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"Their system could produce the technically perfect machine team, but in the climactic minutes when a surge of individual passion and leadership was needed, the Soviets would. fall victim to their collective essence."

"If an artist paints a picture, he has to be locked up for a month or so to get in the frame of mind to produce his masterpiece. If hockey is to be treated as the creation of a masterpiece, one must live with and in hockey. One has to refuse everything else." - Igor Dmitriev, Soviet hockey coach