Officially, Chief Coach Boris Kulagin's Moscow party line for the historic hockey games now under way between club teams of the U.
Unofficially, the Central Army Club-Philadelphia "true friendly" next Sunday at the unfriendly Spectrum should also carry the title of Super Face-off I, because it will match the league champions of hockey's two worlds for the first time.
In that game Kharlamov will once again meet old pal Bobby Clarke. At their last meeting, in Moscow during the Team Canada-U. For games between the Army Club and, say, Torpedo of Gorky, though, the stands are less than half filled and only the last period or two will be shown on videotape.
Ozerov is the Russian Howard Cosell, with silver on top instead of a rug. He always wears a shiny, black and gray herringbone sport coat over a blue sweat suit, and he stations himself next to a monitor along the boards, remembering to duck whenever the action gets too close to his herringbones.
Ozerov works alone, with no Alexander Karrasov for color, and he never has to "pause for this message" because Russian TV has yet to invent commercials.
