Ex-president KHL General Director of St. Petersburg “Zenith” Alexander Medvedev told reporters he didn’t like the idea of dividing up into strong and weak in the KHL.
According to , Moscow CSKA and Dynamo, Saint Petersburg SKA, Magnitogorsk Metallurg, Kazan Ak Bars, Ufa Salavat Yulaev and Chelyabinsk Traktor floated the idea of splitting the KHL into two separate leagues with “strong” and “weak” teams. . .
“I don’t even like the notorious division between the strong and the weak. For example, “Motorist” for some reason was taken and assigned to the weak. Is it with a hint that Datsyuk is done or what? Whatever the benefits of such an approach, it is wrong to divide clubs into weak and strong in our vast country. We already have the VHL, where the level of hockey is lower, so teams that do not correspond to the level of the KHL can play there.
I haven’t read the original documents yet, but at first glance I can’t speak positively about this version of the championship. Besides, I don’t understand why the federation interferes with the KHL calendar. She must agree on the windows for the matches of the Russian national team, I agree with that. Especially if the national team will play its matches. Additionally, classifying a team as weak is unlikely to elicit a positive response from any particular club’s sponsors or advertisers. As Antonov said: “If you want the plane to fly, name it beautifully.” And here the very name of this division suffers,” Medvedev said.
Earlier, KHL President Alexei Morozov said the Russian Ice Hockey Federation (FHR) had proposed dividing league participants into two groups – ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ – with a different number of teams, but the management of the KHL does not support such an initiative.
Source : MatchTV
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