Sports-themed birthday parties are popular among children, which explains why Russian president Vladimir Putin threw a hockey-themed party to celebrate turning 63 years old on Wednesday.

The New York Times reports that lil’ Vlad invited all his friends, including several oligarchs currently facing U.S. sanctions for their role in Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine, and Sergei K. Shoigu, the defense minister who announced missile strikes against Syria earlier that day.

Clearly, his local municipal rink has some sweet children’s-birthday-party packages, because not only did Putin and his friends get to play hockey with several N.H.L. veterans, they got custom uniforms, their amateur match was broadcast on live television in front of a roaring crowd, and each player was introduced with these cool graphics:

Of course, the birthday boy can’t lose on his own birthday: Putin’s team won, 15-10, and he scored seven whole goals against the N.H.L. players, who definitely were not afraid of the repercussions of beating the legendarily macho president on national television.

As a prize, Putin won a trophy, presented by costumed rink employees, that looked like something out of the Party City catalog.

The Times did not report on whether Putin, who is increasingly sounding like an eight-year-old child, went into a rec room afterwards with his friends and ate a hockey-puck birthday cake from the local Wegmans on hockey-themed plates.