Dream Team Lineup
Cameraman pans along the lineup of the Dinamo Riga before the game with the Krylya Sovetov Moscow. Wow… Season 1973-74. Tits Lambins (#13)… Vyacheslav Nazarov (A, #4)… Boris Ponomarev (#14)… Vladimir Sorokin (#11)… Viktor...
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Viva Balderis!
Here it goes. Some moments of joy watching magnificent Helmut Balderis playing for Dynamo Riga vs. Spartak Moscow in the 1970s. Pure magic, baby! Just a blast from the past…
Hockey Fights – No. 19 vs No. 19
Here we go. .. December 19, 1978: USSR vs Canada at the 1978 Izvestia Cup in Moscow. Team Canada is selected from the future NHL stars, players drafted by the NHL clubs. The final...
Helmut Balderis and Guy Lafleur
Helmut Balderis vs. Guy Lafleur… Another shot from the 1979 Challenge Cup in February 1979 in NYC, New York. The NHL All Stars weekend turned into the 1979 Challenge Cup tournament between Team USSR...
Helmut Balderis vs. Gerry Cheevers
Helmut Balderis scores against Gerry Cheevers in Game 3 of the 1979 Challenge Cup on February 11, 1979 in NYC, New York. This Sunday game was the third game of the NHL All Stars...
Helmut Balderis And Valery Kharlamov in San Diego, CA
Balderisomania continues at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski… Valery Kharlamov and Helmut Balderis are boarding a bus in San Diego, California. Alexander Sidelnikov and Valery Vasiliev are loading their gear bags to the luggage compartment. Bus...
Two Degrees Of Holiday Celebration
Obviously, there are two degrees of celebrating the Holiday Season. Not to be mixed. To be distinct! In the old Soviet Union, it used to be mixed on many occasions. Now, what happened to...
Don’t Mess With Russians
Has anyone watched the “Pawn Sacrifice” (2014) about the 1972 World Chess Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky? I watched it on cable on the weekend and most definitely will publish some...
Helmut Balderis and Bob Gainey
Balderisomania continues at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski… Helmut Balderis plays versus Bob Gainey at the 1979 Challenge Cup in NYC, New York in February 1979. One of the most impressive offensive forwards in the world...
Helmut Balderis: Hockey Advertising In the USSR
Balderisomania continues at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski… One of my favorite periods in the hockey biography of Helmut Balderis is his play with the Dynamo Riga team in the early 1970s. This is “early Balderis”....
