He said: “Basically the KHL belongs to the oligarchs. Each of them should have their own hockey team. In the case of Magnitogorsk, it was clearly visible, the owner of the club also had a steel plant with 60,000 jobs. In this case, my employer also owned the factory.”
Keenan led Metallurg Magnitogorsk from 2013 to 2015 and won the Gagarin Cup with the team in 2014.
- Schemberg: “The KHL can now be considered a league that ignores international rules and has become a kind of ‘pariah'”
Source: Sport

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