The absence of the Russian team on the international stage does not contribute to the development of hockey, its level will drop, the silver medalist of the 1998 Olympics, world champion, told german titov .
On Friday, the head of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Luc Tardif, told that the question of the admission of the Russian team to international tournaments would be discussed at the organization’s annual congress in may.
– Tardif regularly gets confused in his testimony and speaks too vaguely about the future of Russia. It is understandable: it is impossible to develop hockey without Russia, as all the latest international tournaments show, including the adult and youth world championships. If the IIHF wants to show that it is out of politics and really cares about the development of hockey, then it will have to make a decision in congress on the return of Russia and Belarus.
I’m sure Tardif still has the example of the NHL in mind, where Alexander Ovechkin, playing a few miles from the White House, is calmly heading for Wayne Gretzky’s record. If the Russians play calmly in the NHL, why can’t they play so calmly at the world championships?
Russia’s weight in hockey is hard to overestimate, so let’s hope the IIHF will always be cautious,” Titov told a correspondent.
The IIHF in February 2022 suspended the national teams of Russia and Belarus from international competitions indefinitely.
Source : MatchTV
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