Ice-Hockey in Moscow, Russian

I was visiting in Moscow to see ice-hockey. Finland was playing against some teams there and also our dear neighbourgh Sweden was struggling with Denmark, so very scandinavian evening I would say. The overall ice-hockey didn't actually provide much. Trip to Moscow was expensive, taxis were expensive, getting to the ice-hockey arena was very complex, atmosphere was totally missing and russian watchers were not interested anything else than team Russian games, so the all the arenas were disasters if you do measurement with atmostphere and sold tickets. Some weird foreigners (like I) was just participating. in the hall, there was not beer or anything to drink. No one speaks English (only in Hotel)....

I quess most of the ice-hockey fans knew the situation in Russia, so they have skipped this. I will probably start waiting that games are coming back to Europe some year and hopefully those are kept somewhere in Scandinavia or middle-Europe where the Ice-Hockey has big fans and where the countries can respect the sport and give needed capabilities to arrange better tournament.