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Temple Russian instructor helps us understand Flyers goalie
Posted Mar 26, 2012
Media Outlet:
Philadelphia Inquirer
Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov is known as much for his fanciful pronouncements about how our "solar system is so humongous big" as he is for his prowess on the ice. Olia Prokopenko, a Russian instructor at Temple, analyzed some of his most unusual statements to the press. Her call? He's misunderstood. "I think Russian humor is closer in its dryness to British than to American," she said.