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In St. Petersburg during the World Cup of Hockey, May 2000, at the tail end of my time in Stockholm. My break-in moment in journalism - front-page of the sports section of the National Post (Canada). Here with my great friend Sandra from Stockholm (pink jacket), my law school friend Steph Bolt (working at the time as a lawyer in Moscow), Tatiana Yashin, mother of NHL player Alexei, and Carol Alt, then Alexei’s girlfriend and still together, I believe. That was a funny day.