Check out this article on the Russian reaction to their win at the World Championship. As noted Alex Ovechkin, Alex Semin and Sergei Fedorov are big time national heroes now and Prime Minister Putin is deeply involved in all of their activities.

Fedorov. Ovechkin. Semin. They are all big time national heroes over in Russia right now. And deservedly so. The President of Russia has invited them all to the Kremlin and there will be a major ticker tape parade thrown in their honor. We are proud of our players who won the gold medal. We are also proud of all of our other players who excelled at the World Championship including Huet, Green, Backstrom, Fleischmann and Lepisto.