Legends Cup in honour of Anatoly Tarasov's 100th birthday

Between the 8th and 9th of December, the fifth Legends Cup will take place at the LUZHKI Club Ice Arena in Moscow Region.

The organiser of the tournament, which is dedicated to the 100th birthday of legendary ice hockey coach Anatoly Tarasov, is the Legends League organisation with support from Nornikel.

Tatyana Tarasova, who is the daughter of Anatoly and a member of the Figure Skating Hall of Fame, will be a special guest at the event.

Legends teams from CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow, Dynamo Moscow and Krylya Sovetov Moscow will all participate at the competition. Famous ice hockey players such as Vyacheslav Fetisov, Pavel Bure, Alexander Golikov, Vladimir Golikov, Alexei Kasatonov, Vladimir Myshkin, Igor Larionov, Vitaly Prokhorkov, Vyacheslav Anisin, Sergei Babinov, Vladimir Malakhov and Viktor Shalimov will play in the Legends Cup.

Children from the Anatoly Tarasov Golden Puck Club and the Vyacheslav Fetisov Ice Hockey Academy will also compete in a friendly match against each other. Since the Legends Cup began operating in 2011, CSKA Moscow have won it on four occasions and are the current reigning champions.

Legends Cup schedule:

December 8, 2018

12:00, Spartak - Krylya Sovetov
13:15, master-class for children from the Vyacheslav Fetisov Academy
13:45, opening ceremony of the competition
14:00, Dynamo - CSKA

December 9, 2018

14:00, match for third place
15:20, friendly match between players of the Anatoly Tarasov Golden Puck Club and Vyacheslav Fetisov Academy
16:00, final
17:30, closing ceremony

Tickets can be purchased HERE.

The Legends Cup final will be broadcast on Match TV.

Nornikel, the general partner of the Legends Cup, is the leader of the global mining and metallurgical industry, and the world's largest producer of high-grade nickel and palladium.

Nornikel has long supported Russian sport. The company is a general partner of the 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk, a partner of the Russian Olympic Committee, and works with plenty of other sporting organisations. In 2018, Nornikel became the general partner of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation. The main goal of the partnership between the RIHF and Nornikel is to develop the Red Machine National Development Program and support complex training for Russian ice hockey national teams ahead of the 2022 Olympic Games in China.