who did they play against for those specific competitions?
HC CSKA Moscow, and Krylya Sovetov Moscow
National Hockey League
. The first international club competition was held in 1976, with eight NHL teams playing against the Soviet Championship League's HC CSKA Moscow, and Krylya Sovetov Moscow. Between 1976 and 1991, the NHL, and the Soviet Championship League would hold a number of exhibition games between the two leagues known as the Super Series. No NHL club had played a Russian-based club from the end of the Super Series in 1991 to 2008, when the New York Rangers faced Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the 2008 Victoria Cup.

In addition to the Russian clubs, NHL clubs had participated in a number of international club exhibitions and competitions with various European-based clubs. The first exhibition game to feature an NHL team against a European-based team (aside from clubs based in the former Soviet Union) was in December 1977, when the New York Rangers faced Poldi Kladno of the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League. In the 2000s the NHL had organized four NHL Challenge series between NHL, and European clu
who is wayne gretzky? A Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. can you name a few teams he has played for that game? The Edmonton Oilers,  St. Louis Blues which teams did he coach? UNANSWERABLE can you tell me any of his breakthroughs during his playing career? Gretzky was the top scorer in the 1978 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships you had mentioned two teams he has played for, which league are those teams a part of? National Hockey League (NHL) when was the above organization formed? The National Hockey League was established in 1917 how many teams does it have? 31 teams - 24 in the United States and 7 in Canada. did that league participate in global competitions? Yes, It  has occasionally participated in international club competitions.
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National Hockey League [SEP] International competitions
The National Hockey League has occasionally participated in international club competitions. Most of these competitions were arranged by the NHL or NHLPA. The first international club competition was held in 1976, with eight NHL teams playing against the Soviet Championship League's HC CSKA Moscow, and Krylya Sovetov Moscow. Between 1976 and 1991, the NHL, and the Soviet Championship League would hold a number of exhibition games between the two leagues known as the Super Series. No NHL club had played a Russian-based club from the end of the Super Series in 1991 to 2008, when the New York Rangers faced Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the 2008 Victoria Cup.