“Canadians deserve MFM hockey gold, but it’s not quite real” – Sychev

Former Russian national team football player Dmitry Sichev believes that the victory of the Canadian team at the World Youth Ice Hockey Championship is partially belittled, since there was no Russian team at the tournament.

In the World Cup final, the Canadians beat the Czech Republic 3-2 in overtime. The Russian team has been suspended from international tournaments.

— Bright from the point of view of aesthetics turned out to be the World Youth Ice Hockey Championship, where Canadian Connor Bedard became the main star. Are you interested in such tournaments where there is no Russia, but the sport is beautiful in itself?

– Watching every game, I found myself thinking: Damn, it’s a shame that such an inferior championship is going on. Because the Canadians want in any case to prove their superiority over Russia. Then everything will be perfect. Of course, they deserve the championship. But I don’t think it’s completely real. Because look what the Russian team could be, what names we could have collected…

– Michkov and Miroshnichenko, Poltapov and Grudinin, Svechkov and Gulyaev …

— Yes, we could compete with anyone. It would be very interesting, and world hockey would only benefit from it.

– It’s good that the Russians are not suspended in the NHL. Unlike the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

I don’t read the press and it’s hard for me to compare why the IIHF does one thing and the NHL does another. It is difficult to speak objectively without having all the information. But, as I understand it, the NHL is a commercially successful league, and they understand that they will lose a lot without the best hockey players in the world,” Sychev told .

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