Igor Rabiner is one of the few Russian journalists who covered all three Winter Olympics with the participation of NHL stars from the scene: Nagano 98, Salt Lake City 2002 and Turin 2006. Why did we come second in Japan, third in the USA, and not get on the podium at all in Italy? The secrets of what happened on the Olympic ice and behind the scenes are in the new work of the most popular sports documentary writer in Russia, whose total book circulation has already reached a quarter of a million copies. In February 2010, the Russian team will take part in the next Olympic Games in Vancouver. Can our hockey players, world champions of the last two years, be considered the main favorites? The President of the Russian Hockey Federation, Vladislav Tretyak, and the head coach of the national team, Vyacheslav Bykov, answer this and many other questions in frank interviews especially for this book. If you want to get yourself in the mood for the Olympics, there's no better way than reading Hockey Madness. From Nagano to Vancouver."