The Interesting Truth Behind Recruiting Russian Players In The 80s | Hey Burkie

Bringing hockey players from overseas to the NHL in the 1980s was ... interesting. In this episode of "Hey Burkie", Jeff Marek takes Brian Burke to Mikhail Grabovski's banya with a few of his friends. Brian tells the guys how he recruited several Soviet hockey players like Igor Larionov and Vladimir Krutov to Vancouver and how the experience was a lot different than he expected.
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