Aleksei Kasatonov is known as "The Russian Rocket". Many regard him as one of the best defensive ice hockey players of all time. He played on the USSR's Olympic Hockey Team. Kasatonov is now the head coach of Columbia University's Hockey Team. Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (СССР) listen; tr. ... Columbia University is a large private research university in New York City comprising, through its affiliates, five undergraduate colleges and sixteen graduate and professional schools. ...
Alexei Kasatonov (Алексей Викторович Касатонов; born October 14, 1959 in Leningrad, USSR) is an ice hockey defenseman, a long-time member of the Soviet Union national team.
On the international stage, Kasatonov won two golds (1984, 1988) and one silver (1980) in the Olympics, and five golds (1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989) in the World Championships.
Kasatonov was accused by his teammates on spying on them; when he and Fetisov became teammates again, at the New Jersey Devils, the two ex-best friends would not speak.
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