Remembering the impact of the Detroit Red Wings' "Russian Five" more than 20 years ago. Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press
If you live long enough, movies start to look familiar. They call them “historical documentaries.”
I call them memories.
Tonight, the film “The Russian Five” debuts at the Freep Film Festival. It’s a sold-out event, befitting the subject, because the five hockey players it chronicles, Slava Fetisov, Sergei Fedorov, Igor Larionov, Slava Kozlov and Vladimir Konstantinov, were always worth the price of admission.
I know. I was lucky enough to be there when they all joined the Red Wings — and mad professor Scotty Bowman had the idea of playing them all at the same time.