War has upended Russian-Nordic friendships forged on Arctic ice hockey rinks. Can they ever recover?

Ban on Russian teams competing internationally has been lifted but days of friendly relations between Norwegian, Finnish and Russia players are a distant – if fond – memoryFor years, playing ice hockey against teams from Russia was a central part of Janne Tervahauta’s social life.Through his team, Tunturi-Kiekko, based in Ivalo, a rural Arctic town close to Finland’s most northerly…