Tretiak: Coaching is the next best thing to playing in the NHL.
Herb Brooks (On Vladislav Tretiak): If you score on him, keep the puck because it does not happen often.
Tretiak created the Elite School of Goaltending where he personally teaches young kids how to be better goaltenders.
Between 1978 and 1983 he was undefeated in 45 straight World Championship games.
Tretiak is the only Soviet player to ever participate in four Olympic.
Tretiak got his first skating lessons from his mother who was a pretty good bandy hockey player.
On April 25, 2006 Tretiak was elected head of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation.
Tretiak's wife, Tatiana, is qualified as a Russian literature teacher.
He is chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sport, and Youth.
Tretiak was a vital cog for some of the most dominant hockey teams in history and is now considered one of hockey's greatest ambassadors.
Tretiak was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989, the first Soviet player to be so honored.
Tretiak retired in 1984.
Tretiak won the Golden Hockey Stick, awarded to the best player in Europe in 1981, 1982, and 1983.
He was a First All-Star in the Soviet League every year from 1971 until 1984.
Tretiak helpd the Soviets win nine IIHF European Championships.
Tretiak won a gold medal for the Soviets in the 1981 Canada Cup.
Tretiak won a gold medal for the Soviets in the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Tretiak was drafted by the Montreal Canadians in 1983.
He also played in the 1972 Winter Olympics, in which the Soviets took the gold medal.
Tretiak apparently started playing goal as a bargain in return for a cherished TsSKA hockey jersey, and because no one else wanted to play the position.
Tretiak's father taught Russian literature.
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