Detroit's Hockey Evolution with Keith Gave From The Russian Five to The Grind Line — A Legacy of Grit and Glory

Join us for an afternoon celebrating hockey history. The afternoon will feature an exclusive screening of The Russian Five followed by a conversation with Keith Gave, the journalist who helped bring the legendary Russian Five to Detroit!

1:00PM – Screening of The Russian Five

3:00PM – In Conversation with Keith Gave

Keith Gave is the author of three books, which cap an eclectic career that included lengthy stints as a soldier, spy, newspaperman, radio host, TV analyst, publicist, college professor, and filmmaker—all before he set out to write books.

Gave spent six years in the United States Army as a Russian linguist working for the National Security Agency during the Cold War, including three years in West Berlin when it was surrounded by a wall. Nothing could have better prepared him for a career as a sports writer covering hockey for the Detroit Free Press. That’s when he experienced the cloak-and-dagger assignment of his career; on a covert mission to Helsinki, Finland, he passed along messages to two young Soviet hockey players who would eventually lead the Detroit Red Wings to the Stanley Cup summit for the first time in 42 years.