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The 80th Ice Hockey
World Championship
will be held 6–22 May
2016 at the VTB Ice
Palace arena in Moscow
and the Yubileyny
Sports Palace in Saint
Petersburg. The finals
will take place on 22
May in Moscow.
The Great Stand
Fans of ice hockey cannot wait for the 80th World Championship to begin. This
year, Moscow and Saint Petersburg will host the world’s best teams joining the
ice battle. The Russian players will have to prove that they deserve the title
of the successors to the traditions of the Red Machine, the legendary Soviet
national team.
T
he USSR’s national team debuted at the
seventh 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina
d'Ampezzo, Italy. The first Olympic Games
brought an Olympic victory and started an epic
stand between the nati