Olympic champion, vice-president of the KHL Valery Kamenski in a conversation with expressed the opinion that the head coach of SKA Romain Rotenberg faithfully supported his team’s striker Valentina Zykova.
On Friday, SKA defeated Ak Bars at home in the KHL Championship Fonbet game with a score of 7:4. In the first minute of the game, Zykov tried to take the puck from Alexander Radulov in the middle zone, the players collided, the SKA player was on the ice. Zykov could not continue the meeting, the photo that appeared on social networks shows that the player is missing almost all of his front teeth. At the same time, Kamensky noted that there were no rule violations in the episode.
“For me, it’s pure power. Zykov didn’t have time to pull himself together before the collision and what happened happened. Hockey is a contact game, you have to prepare for it .
– Roman Rotenberg said the episode should be considered intentional on Radulov’s part. What do you think?
– It’s great, because the team coach always has to protect his players, but there are rules of the game. It’s their right to go to the judicial committee, they can use it, and then we let’s see what the verdict will be.
This season, 27-year-old Zykov has played in 53 KHL regular season games, scoring 24 (8+16) points.
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