 During Team Canada 's stay in Moscow , the team 's treatment was the source of numerous complaints by the players . When leaving Sweden , the team was informed that the players would stay at one hotel , their wives at another . The players threatened not to go , and the arrangements were changed to keep the players and wives together at the <unk> Hotel . The players ' wives were fed sub @-@ standard food and the players would smuggle some of their food to their wives . The team had contracted to have Canadian beer and steaks delivered to them in Moscow . The beer was lost at the airport , while the steaks were cut in half . At a practice after game six , the Soviets tried to cut short the Canadians ' practice . 
