About the book: year / Passage through the center, roar of the stands, swing, throw, goal! No! Barbell. This is roughly how Vanya Tafgaev entered the history of world hockey. It’s 1973, and I still can’t get 2021 out of my head. But Ivan isn’t bored even in ’73. The war in Vietnam is over, the mess in Egypt has begun. Leonid Brezhnev was given party card No. 2, leaving No. 1 for the long memory of Comrade Lenin. A plane crashed in Prague, the dollar dropped by 10%. Here even a healthy person’s nervous system will be shaken. What can we say about Ivan Tafgaev, whom nature, having gifted physically, saved on scarce and non-regenerating nerve cells. A tough time awaits him at the end of the NHL season. Both winter and spring of 1973 will be hot for him.