With a full house-out, a charity match was held in the Norilsk Sports Palace "Arctic" on February 8 with the participation of "Legends of World Hockey" and the team of the "Night Hockey League" (NHL) "Norilsk". Charity contributions for invitations amounted to 1.3 million rubles. "Norilsk Nickel" doubled the amount, and right after the match, company president Vladimir Potanin presented two certificates for the same amount to hockey clubs of Norilsk and Dudinka. Norilsk citizens could not resist not to see their own eyes, as they play in the star team Pavel Bure, Victor and Valery Kamensky, Sergei Fedorov, Alexei Kasatonov, Alexander Kozhevnikov. In a team with the stars on the ice came Vladimir Potanin, senior vice president of Norilsk Nickel Sergey Batekhin and board member Sergei Barbashev. Against the stars played team NHL Norilsk team. The symbolic face-off of the puck was made by the acting governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Uss. The match was broadcast for the first time on the Internet in a live broadcast, which became possible after the construction of the Nornikel 900-kilometer broadband line. Although the match ended with a score of 13: 3 in favor of "Legends of Hockey", the game for the stars was not easy. In the year since the first such charity match, four amateur NHL teams with 40+ players appeared on Taimyr. "The team from Norilsk played well, forced us to give our best. The account is deceptive, the second period we played 2: 2, this indicates a high level of local guys, for a year they made tangible progress, "said after the match Pavel Bure. "Sports of high achievements will never be truly productive if it does not rely on mass sports. This also applies to hockey - one of the most popular sports in Russia. And for the propaganda of sport, people who became his legends can not do without veterans, whose names the entire country once knew, "says Vladimir Potanin. President of Norilsk Nickel - head of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Development of Amateur Hockey "Night Hockey League". On his initiative, the target program for supporting veterans of Russian hockey and other projects aimed at the development of hockey in Russia as a mass sport. About 50 million rubles, "Norilsk Nickel" allocates for the aid of veterans of hockey, another 50 million rubles go to mass events with the participation of the "Night Hockey League". The first such charity match took place in March 2017, it gave impetus to the development of winter sports in the area. A team of Norilsk youths born in 2004 at the final All-Russian competitions "Golden Puck" took the tenth place among 64 teams.