Before “Washington” Evgeny Kuznetsov in an interview with , he spoke about the peculiarities of the work of referees at the start of the hockey season.
During the last championship, 31-year-old Evgeny Kuznetsov scored 55 (12+43) points in 81 matches.
— I was struck by your statement that hockey has already become different. Recently, fights were canceled in the Quebec Junior League. Where is your sport going in general?
– Yes, I have no idea! I will suffer for two more years, but then I will look at this pile of heads from the side. Well, fighting was banned – so that’s what the league management decided. I know many people who are against this decision. Opinions are divided and it is difficult to discuss them here.
— We also see a lot of cuts in the KHL. In preseason, they generally pushed for everything.
– Yes, it’s been like that all my life. Apparently, referees don’t get whistles in the summer. They then go out and whistle like crazy throughout the pre-season and the first two weeks of the championship.
And then we’ll give them cradles, and everything will be fine. The referee won’t blow his whistle all summer, will he? But I got bored here. He will whistle, and everything will happen as usual,” Kuznetsov said for .
Kuznetsov won the Stanley Cup in 2018, becoming the playoffs’ top scorer with 32 points (12 goals, 20 assists) in 24 games.
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