Player:
Viktor Krunk has one equipment modification he always makes. He uses red tape to tape the blade of his stick, then uses a small stencil and a can of yellow spray paint to mark onto that tape the hammer, sickle, and small five-pointed star of the flag of the Soviet Union.

The flag of a country that dissolved long before he was born reminds him of three things:

1) His home and his family, who are still living in the town in south Siberia where he grew up. He misses then, but he would never go back.
2) How lucky he is to be able to earn more money than he ever dreamed of by playing hockey - though he still doesn't understand why he has to pay double his salary to get equipment. Surely the team should cover that? Plus, a set of equipment should never cost 8 million dollars. He is sure he got his for a few hundred when he was a child.
3) How much better the world will be when communism finally returns.