The World Youth Championship cannot be considered full if the Russian team does not participate in it, the former defender of the Russian national team, now a coach and pundit, told . Alexandre Youdin .
The Canadian team became the winner of the MFM, beating the Czech Republic in extra time – 3:2. The American team defeated the Swedes in the match for third place – 8:7. After the end of the MFM-2023, the IIHF, based on the final ranking, published on its website the compositions for next year’s tournament, not including the teams of Russia and Belarus.
– In the morning, I see on the news how tennis players and singers from Canada congratulate their team for the victory at the MFM. To be proud of such a victory, you really have to be a Tik-Tok girl and understand nothing about hockey. Well, Hockey Canada should just hide its eyes in shame after this “gold”. Because it is wrong. The fate of the MFM was decided not on the ice, but in the offices and judges’ rooms. If there is even a drop of consciousness left in the hockey world, then the past tournament should be removed from all reference books and not remembered at all,” Yudin told a correspondent. .
– First, they kidnapped Russia. Without our team, the MFM is 100% wrong. Especially when you know that a great generation with Michkov, Miroshnichenko, Svechkov and other guys would have every chance of winning gold. In a fair fight, our guys could easily beat this Canada. Bedard received an MVP in advance, even before the Finals. And he didn’t score any points in the main match of the tournament. It was against the Austrians and the Germans that the guy was a hero, but on a serious level he kind of died out very quickly.
If Canada are so “great”, why did they play the final until extra time? Although the rivals were the Czechs – a team that would never have reached the gold games if the Russian team had participated in the MFM. MFM-2023 has an inferior composition of participants and an inferior champion, who did not hesitate to enter the final by canceling the net goals of two opponents. Canadians of the Gordie Howe generation, Canadians of the Gretzky generation and even Canadians of the Crosby generation would have been ashamed of such a victory. Alas, now there are completely different concepts of honor, dignity and sportsmanship. It is not surprising that they were simply afraid to compete with the Russians. And it is significant that it was the Canadians and the Czechs who were among the main supporters of Russia’s withdrawal from high-level tournaments. They were afraid to meet our guys on the ice.
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