Legenda No. 17 Page #6

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What are you waiting here for?

You can go.

Brezhnev is coming to the match.

Good afternoon.

By the way, where is the report?

Ow. I never remember to bring it up.

Oh yeah? It's not funny.

Everybody's asking me

when I finally have it. So when?

- Well... tomorrow.

- Alright. Let's go.

The cigarettes are on the table.

The matches as well...

Anna Sergeevna!

- h, Valera!

- Good afternoon, Eduard Mikhailovich.

- Hello!

- This, by the way, is a great player.

- Have you ever met?

- No, we haven't.

- My pleasure, I am Valeri.

- Sergei.

Anna Sergeevna, I left a ticket for Irina.

Did she come to pick it up?

- No.

- It's for you then.

Thank you. Is it true that you are

going to Canada?

- Yes.

- Good luck.

Valera, where's the report?

Have you written it?

Valera, I have always been

on your side.

The car, the flat... You think it was

Tarasov to help you here?

- nd you?

- Eduard Mikhailovich, you got me wrong.

I am not going to write anything.

No, it's you... got me wrong.

Your coach is a psycho.

His rough training approaches...

jeopardize the image of the Soviet sport .

He thinks that hockey in the USSR

is just him and his players. Wrong.

The Soviet hockey is a system that works

and will work in the future.

With him or without him.

If you advocate the autocratic

ambitions of your coach...

you should not belong to the elite

of the Soviet sport.

And who does belong there? You do?

Well, at least not the players...

who have talks with NHL.

Alright then.

The report is not needed.

This is my phone number.

Tomorrow morning I am

waiting for a call from you.

It will not happen.

What I like about you, Valera,

is that you are self-confident.

Good boy!

The right one to share a foxhole with.

Good luck with the match.

Good afternoon!

What did he want from you?

He's dispensing autographs...

Let's have a sit?

Guys, you are the National,

you are playing against Spartak.

I don't know the purpose of this match

and who produced this clever idea...

But every person seeing the game

has to come to a total understanding...

of why it is you to fly to Canada,

not somebody else.

(Announcer) We are pleased to have here the

General Secretary of the Central Committee...

of the Communist Party

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev.

It is a friendly match.

That's why we are looking forward

to this exhibition game...

between the National and Spartak Moscow.

Is he blind? They hooked Guskov.

(Announcer) We can see from the record that

there was an illegal hooking toward Guskov.

Something weird is going on.

The National gets a penalty

for the delay of the game.

- What a gaff!

- Line change!

The National plays shorthanded.

The Golden Three of Tarasov

are attacking.

An assist to Kharlamov... Goal!

It is 1:
0 for the National of the Soviet Union.

The goal is disallowed...

because of the off-side position.

I do not understand anything at all.

He did not cross the the blue line.

Something really strange is happening here.

Everybody saw that it was a goal but

the referee says there was a whistle.

And that the puck was delivered

only after the whistle.

Referee!

- Why is the goal disallowed?

- Off-side position.

Sergei, what the f*** are you doing?

Anatoli Vladimirovich, please!

Things happen.

What is that supposed to mean?

Things happen?

You think one can treat the National

Team that way?

Please, Anatoli Vladimirovich, calm down!

Sometimes it is good even for

the National to lose against Spartak.

It's not going to happen.

Anatoli Vladimirovich, you must admit

this game is not important to the National.

Every game is important.

The National! Off the ice!

What a slapstick!

- Anatoli Borisovich!

- You want to servile to your boss?

Do you want to bring down

the National Team?

You take too many liberties here!

Immediately get the team back to the ice!

The National stays here unless

you are changing the referees.

Do you understand that there is...

Leonid Brezhnev present?

Does he want us to change the hockey

rules for him or what?

Alright. Listen to me.

Everybody back to the ice!

Everybody stay here!

One has to respect hockey.

You can tell it to Brezhnev.

Got the wind up? Huh?

What kind of a coach are you now?

I believed in you! And you!

Cowards!

I believed in you! Poltroons!

I see you like hockey. Go sleep

it off and then think it all over!

A**hole! Shithead!

What a bastard! Sh*t!

Yes.

- One more.

- And a bilateral...

- A splintered right ankle fracture.

- Just tell me:
will I ever play again?

Excuse me, I do not understand...

what game are you talking about?

Don't men really can find any

real things to do?

Will I play?

Let us hope, Valeri Borisovich...

...that you will walk.

Slava! You are chatting again!

Go and get yourself busy!

- How is he?

- Good.

Can you hear me?

- Hello, dear patients!

- What is it?

Wow! Did everybody see that?

Careful! Is he in the ward?

Yes, he is. What's this scrap metal?

- Don't worry, doctor.

- Who gave the order?

What you think, you can set

the rules here, huh?

- It's Mikhailov!

- A dreamboat!

So we say:
will you make it

for Kharlamov?

As soon as they heard it they said...

For Kharlamov we'll make the

best machine possible.

Valera, with this thing you

can exercise everything.

- Really cool!

- The guys were saying hi to you.

And what about Brezhnev? Were there

any consequences?

No. No, nothing.

Valera, what links you to that...

guy from the Committee?

- Balashov?

- Screw him.

He's a creep!

Tarasov axed his son from the team,

so he is still angry.

You remember that story

about Desyatkin?

That gymnast that had a crash

with a motor boat?

Valera, he was all into pieces, really.

So they sent him abroad.

In Switzerland.

He came back totally healed.

Still performs.

No, Kostya, it's not for me...

Valera, I understand.

But Balashov can help.

He can get you back to

the National Team.

Call him. Make apologies.

Ask for help.

If you want I can call myself.

No.

Valera?

Hello, Valera!

Your Excellency?

To what do I owe the honor?

- I just...

- What?

...decided that you need to be

rescued again.

So the only thing you can do

is rescue, right?

So you are like a nurse.

You only come when the help is needed.

And how about all the other days?

Valera...

- I am sorry...

- What?

It's the way I am, I just...

...I don't like being with you for just

30 minutes between your training sessions.

And now there are no sessions, right?

And there is the green light for Irina!

- Valera, I won't stay for long...

- Go away now! Go to hell!

I don't want anyone to rescue me!

I don't want anyone to feel sorry!

Go to hell, all of you!

Do you know that I am married with 3 kids?

And their father is a champion!

What the heck are you looking at?

Oh. I got so tired today.

Maybe it's because of the weather.

Anatoli Vladimirovich! Hello.

Did the girl give this to you, huh?

She's a nice girl, I saw her.

But take your time, Valera.

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