Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli Borscht: This is old, but it's timely given that the Red Wings are about to win another Stanley Cup. The Wings were one of the first teams to load up on Russian players back in the day, at one point gleefully referring to themselves as Detroit's Red Army. Of course along with the Russian players came the Russian mob - or at least that's what the allegation is. This PBS Frontline documentary (from 1999 I think) has lots of good information on the Hockey-Wiseguy connection. Especially this remarkable interview with a US executive who went to Russia to help revive Russian hockey after the fall.

I anxiously await movie version directed by Scorsese.