In connection with the exclusion of Russia from international competitions, it is necessary to create its own “points of attraction” and work to raise the level of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) so that players from around the world everyone wants to play in it with the same zeal as in the National Hockey League (NHL), a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation told “” Svetlana Jourova .
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday asked the head of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF), Vladislav Tretyak, and the Russian Sports Ministry to examine the situation in which Russian hockey players leave at young ages to play in leagues foreign. The head of state said that “hockey businessmen take children from sports schools and drag them abroad”, “there is a lot of money, the damage is obvious to us”, it’s “a business, and not always regulated and not always noble.”
— If we talk about motivation for our guys, then I am not thinking about the ban on going abroad, but about creating conditions here. In connection with our suspension, we need to create our own points of attraction and increase the level of competition in the same hockey, so that people come to us, like in the NHL. Raise the level of the KHL so that the strongest can play with us. We now have a historic opportunity.
Note that the NHL and the NBA have created leagues without any national or political origin. In all similar major competitions in America, are there exclusions based on nationality? On the contrary, they believe that the best athletes should play. Maybe we should follow the same principle in this regard,” Zhurova told .
Source : MatchTV
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