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Vladimir Putin Plays Epic Hockey Game, Has 6 Goals And 5 Assists

Vladimir Putin Is The World's Greatest Hockey Player
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One of Russia's leading newscasts was interrupted Saturday night with reports on President Vladimir Putin's latest attempt to subdue his enemies and assert his dominance.

But this time, it was on a hockey rink in Sochi.

Wearing a red (of course) jersey bearing the number 11, the Russian president led a team of hockey stars -- including several former NHL players -- to a 21-4 victory, with Putin himself getting 6 goals, according to reports.

His first goal came just 4 minutes into the game. And to show he's a good teammate, he also had 5 assists.

“Vladimir Vladimirovich has set himself the goal of playing hockey. Several years ago he said: ‘I will do it!’ Now you can see the result -- 6 goals," former NHL hockey star and teammate Pavel Bure told ITAR-TASS. "One needs all the skillfulness to score so many times. That the president of the world’s largest country with a busy schedule has learnt to play ice hockey and found time for that is an indication of his excellent shape."

While hockey is a notoriously physical sport, no one so much as laid a finger on the Russian president during the match, at least in the clips released online.

But can you really blame them? They probably don't want to end up like this tiger, this fish or this guy unlucky enough to have to fight him in judo.

"There are no winners or losers here," the 61-year-old president was quoted as saying. "This is a friendly game. It’s a show and everyone enjoyed it."

Putin has been known for his action stunts -- including martial arts, horseback riding, hang-gliding, flying a fighter jet and more. See a few of his classic macho moments in the gallery below.

(h/t Mediaite)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 file photo then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse in the foothills of Karatash, near Abakan, the capital of the Khakassia region in Siberia. Putin has become alternately notorious and beloved for an array of adventurous stunts, including posing with a tiger cub and riding a horse bare-chested. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Government Press Service, file) (credit:AP)
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FILE- In this Thursday, April 29, 2010 file photo then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, fixes a radio beacon on a neck of a polar bear, which was anaesthetized, during a visit to a research institute at the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Putin has become alternately notorious and beloved for an array of adventurous stunts, including posing with a tiger cub and riding a horse bare-chested. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Government Press Service, file) (credit:AP)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008 file pool photo then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a tranquilizer gun in a Russian Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia's Far East. Putin has become alternately notorious and beloved for an array of adventurous stunts, including posing with a tiger cub and riding a horse bare-chested. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, POOL, file) (credit:AP)
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FILE - In this March 20, 2000 file photo, President Vladimir Putin, wearing a blue helmet and an oxygen mask, sits in Su-27 fighter jet after his flight into the war zone in Chechnya, in Grozny, Russia. Putin has become alternately notorious and beloved for an array of adventurous stunts, including posing with a tiger cub and riding a horse bare-chested. (AP Photo/ITAR-TASS, Presidential Press Service, file) (credit:AP)
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A picture released on March 6, 2010 shows Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stroking a horse in the Karatash area, near the town of Abakan, during his working trip to Khakassia, on February 25, 2010. AFP PHOTO - RIA-NOVOSTI / ALEKSEY DRUZHININ (Photo credit should read ALEKSEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse during his vacation outside the town of Kyzyl in Southern Siberia on August 3, 2009. AFP PHOTO / RIA-NOVOSTI / ALEXEY DRUZHININ (Photo credit should read ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin rides a horse near the foothills of the Western Sayan Mountains in the Republic of Tuva, 15 August 2007. Putin is scheduled to arrive in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek on 15 August 2007 to participate in a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states. AFP PHOTO / RIA NOVOSTI / KREMLIN POOL / DMITRY ASTAKHOV (Photo credit should read DMITRY ASTAKHOV/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse during his vacation outside the town of Kyzyl in Southern Siberia on August 3, 2009. AFP PHOTO / RIA-NOVOSTI / ALEXEY DRUZHININ / ADDITIONAL CROP VERSION (Photo credit should read Alexsey Druginyn/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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VERKHNIYE MONDROGI, RUSSIA: Russian President Vladimir Putin rides a horse in the village of Verkhniye Mondrogi 18 August 2001 during his summer vacations. AFP PHOTO ITAR-TASS POOL (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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LONDON - JUNE 24: Russian President Vladimir Putin is accompanied by Her Majesty The Queen during a procession at The Mallat during the start iof his state visit on June 24, 2003 in London, England. Putin is on a 4 days visit in Great Britain and will attend a number of functions during his time in the country. The visit is the first by a Russian President since 1843. (Photo by Julian Herbert/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse during his vacation outside the town of Kyzyl in Southern Siberia on August 3, 2009. AFP PHOTO / RIA-NOVOSTI / ALEXEY DRUZHININ / ADDITIONAL CROP VERSION (Photo credit should read Alexsey Druginyn/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is pictured with a horse during his vacation outside the town of Kyzyl in Southern Siberia on August 3, 2009. AFP PHOTO / RIA-NOVOSTI / ALEXEY DRUZHININ (Photo credit should read ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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FILE - In this Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012, file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground, flies in a motorized hang glider alongside a Siberian white crane, on the Yamal Peninsula, in Russia. Putin has become alternately notorious and beloved for an array of adventurous stunts, including posing with a tiger cub and riding a horse bare-chested. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service) (credit:AP)
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FILE In this Sept. 2010 photo released on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip in Ubsunur Hollow in the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), on the border with Mongolia, Russia. Putin has become alternately notorious and beloved for an array of adventurous stunts, including posing with a tiger cub and riding a horse bare-chested. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service, file) (credit:AP)
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FILE- In this Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 photo then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries two pieces of archaeological trophies he discovered during diving near an archeological excavation of an ancient Greek port on the Taman Peninsula, about 1150 kilometers (720 miles) south of Moscow, Russia. Putin has become alternately notorious and beloved for an array of adventurous stunts, including posing with a tiger cub and riding a horse bare-chested. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool, file) (credit:AP)
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In this Monday, Aug. 29, 2011 photo, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center left, and leader of Nochniye Volki (the Night Wolves) biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, also known as Khirurg (the Surgeon), right, ride bikes at a motor bikers' festival in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, POOL, file) (credit:AP)
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A picture taken on July 7, 2009, shows Vladimir Putin, then Russian Prime Minister, listening to the leader of Nochniye Volki (the Night Wolves) biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov (R), also known as Khirurg (the Surgeon), during Putin's visit to the 'Night Wolves' biker club's headquarters. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin, center, and leader of the Night Wolves biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, right, as they ride bikes at a motor bikers' festival in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Russia, Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, pool) (credit:AP)
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Vladimir Putin (C) poses for a photo with members of the 'Night Wolves' bikers' movement after watching a friendly football match between of Serbia's FC Crvena Zvezda Belgrade and Russia's FC Zenit St Petersburg junior teams at Marakana Stadium in Belgrade, on March 23, 2011. (ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) and Night Wolves Moscow Bikers club leader Alexander 'Khirurg' Zaldostanov (L) attend the opening of the Barmaley Fountain during a wider ceremony to remember the 40, 000 people who died on this day in 1942, when the city was bombed by Nazi Germany, on August 23, 2013 in Volgograd, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with a biker as he takes part in the 16th annual motorbike festival held by 'The Night Wolves' youth organization in the southern Russian town of Novorossiysk, on August 29, 2011. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin (L) hands over a medal to the leader of the Night Wolves biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, during Putin's meeting with members of the Military History Society in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on March 14, 2013. (MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin pays a surprise visit to the headquarters of the 'Night Wolves' biker club in Moscow on July 7, 2009. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin, center, and leader of the Night Wolves biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, right, pose for a press attending a meeting of motorbikers at their camp at Gasfort lake near Sevastopol in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, Saturday, July 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) (credit:AP Photo)
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