Vladislav Tretiak

Vladislav Tretiak is a Russian former ice hockey goaltender who played for CSKA Moscow, the Red Army club, and for the Soviet Union national team through the 1970s and early 1980s. He is widely ranked among the greatest goaltenders in the history of the sport. He won Olympic gold with the Soviet team in 1972, 1976 and 1984, took silver in 1980, and backstopped the Soviets to ten World Championship titles. He was the first player trained outside North America to enter the Hockey Hall of Fame, and he later led the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia and lit the cauldron at the 2014 Sochi Games.