Sportscaster Dmitri Guberniev told that the hockey player S.K.A. Brendan Leipsik might decide to take Russian citizenship for the love of money and the tax system.
Earlier, SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg said striker Leipsik had expressed a desire to accept Russian citizenship and wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
– If he wants to take Russian citizenship, it’s one of two things. Either he likes Russia very much, the countries are very similar, or he likes Russian money and our tax system very much. You need to ask the hockey player what is most pleasant for him in this situation. Maybe he leaned against Canadian birches and realized that Russian birches are much better, then he started reading Yesenin in Russian and decided to change his nationality. I really believe that it is not a financial factor, but love for the country, maybe for the women of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg. You have to ask him for those details,” Guberniev told .
Leipsik played in the NHL from 2016 to 2020, where he played for Toronto, Vegas, Vancouver, Los Angeles and Washington. Since 2020, the Canadian has been playing in the KHL, in the league he played for CSKA and Metallurg Magnitogorsk. Twice with his teams, Leipsik reached the final of the Gagarin Cup and scored a total of 142 (54+88) points in 204 regular season and playoff games.
Last season, 29-year-old Leipsik scored 44 (11+33) points in 65 regular season games with Magnitogorsk and 11 (2+9) points in 11 Gagarin Cup games.
Source : MatchTV
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