Most due to suspension Russian team young hockey players suffer from international tournaments, says head coach of Dynamo Moscow Alexei Kudashov .
The Russian national team has already missed two world championships (2022, 2023) due to suspension and will not go to the third, which will be held in the Czech Republic in 2024.
– Is the fact that our players found themselves without international practice harming our hockey? Although 19 Russians were selected in the draft.
– For adult and established hockey players, the deprivation of international practice is not of serious importance. But this situation hit the youth. Yes, it’s good that we play with Belarusians and Kazakhs, the more they will improve their level. But the Russian “junior” and “youth team” need international practice. It’s bad without it. I am now very familiar with the subject of the NHL rookie draft and have studied it in depth…
– Your son, 18-year-old defender of MHC Dynamo (Moscow) Artem Kudashov went to this repechage, but he was not selected.
– Yes. It turns out that in the first rounds of the repechage, the most talented and the best were selected, even if they did not play at international level. Next are the guys who have been played at an adult level.
I was struck by the fact that in North America they now closely monitor the guys who play at the adult level in the KHL and VHL. Who behaves in hockey with men, – said Kudashov “”.
The last time the Russian team played in the final of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, where they lost to the Finns with a score of 1:2.
Source : MatchTV
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