Vice President”kunlun Nikolai Feoktistov said the Chinese club will continue to play their home games in Mytishchi due to the socio-economic and political situation.
Earlier, the Kunlun Red Star announced that they will continue to play in Mytishchi near Moscow in the new KHL season.
— We tried to move to China. But after assessing the risks, taking into account the socio-economic and political situation, we realized that we would stay here for another year so as not to disappoint the league and everyone. The main task is to prepare the Chinese team. We are happy that the KHL gives us a break, we can organize the Olympic qualification in February. As in previous years, we want to combine a successful league performance with a successful national team performance. Our key start will be in February.
We had agreements with the arena, we had everything for the move. But if we had moved now, we would have created additional difficulties for other KHL clubs, especially in terms of logistics. We all know what the current political realities are. We would move, start playing, then in November everything would stop and we would have to deal with the move again. So we made the joint decision to wait another year. But the team does not associate with the Moscow region, it is a Chinese club, it is the Chinese team, ”reports the correspondent of , the words of Feoktistov.
The new KHL season will kick off on September 1 with the Cup opener between CSKA and Ak Bars.
Source : MatchTV
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