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It’s a long way from a windshield-making factory in Hawkesbury to southwestern Siberia.
But wherever Bob Hartley has coached hockey – over many decades – he’s had success, including in Cornwall in the mid-1990s, and for the last few seasons in Russia.
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Last week, the Avangard Omsk team he guides captured a very prestigious trophy – the Gagarin Cup. (It’s named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.)
It’s emblematic of Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) supremacy, and it adds to Hartley’s spectacular coaching resume. He’s just the sport’s second head coach to win both a Stanley Cup (2001, Colorado Avalanche) and Gagarin Cup, along with Mike Keenan.