From the sparkling ice of the Olympic final to the hospital bed of a Nizhny Tagil hospital in the summer of 1987. Instead of the snow-white sands of Florida, a villa on the Gulf of Mexico and a captain's stripe in the best NHL team, there is a steel Ural sky and a one-room apartment. That's what fate has in store for me. But it was not for nothing that I was one of the best of my time. If there I became the one whose name was chanted by fans on both sides of the ocean, then I can do it again. Moreover, I have no other choice. From the author: This is a book about a hockey player. There will be not just a lot of hockey in it, but a lot. For the cover, many thanks to the wonderful artist and writer Alisa Rosman. The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.