Politics may freeze relations, but the draft still knows where the talent is – and Russian teenagers are again forcing North America to pay attention This weekend the National Hockey League (NHL) Draft takes place in Buffalo, New York, and the business of sport will outplay geopolitics. Since the 1970s Summit Series, the Transatlantic and Transpacific dialogue between North America and Russia hinged on ice hockey. Then, pro teams in the US and Canada looked covetously upon the Soviet Union’s