Watch: World Championship players struggle to pronounce Russian words

It's a good thing hockey is a universal language.

Non-Russian players at the World Championship in Moscow and St. Petersburg tried their hand at pronouncing some Russian words and phrases, with amusing results.

Canadians Ryan O'Reilly and Max Domi, American Keith Kinkaid, and other players from the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, France, and Germany gave it a shot.

It starts with some relatively easy ones, but gets progressively more difficult.

Fortunately for these players, they only need their native tongues to communicate with each other on the ice.