Saint PETERSBOURG SKA in response to a request, responded to the letter “Avant-garde” regarding the attacker’s injury episode Sergei Tolshinsky .
In the 39th minute of the Fonbet KHL championship match, which took place on Tuesday in Omsk and ended with a score of 9:5 in favor of Avangard, the host striker Nikita Kholodilin used a powerful move against Tolchinsky , throwing him against the tape. . The match’s main referees, Viktor Gashilov and Sergei Yudakov, assessed the episode, giving Kholodilin and Alex Galchenyuk two minutes each for the next fight. Tolchinsky could not continue the match.
Head coach of SKA Romain Rotenberg after the match he said that his colleague from Avangard Mikhail Kravets ordered the team’s hockey players to play roughly against Tolchinsky. Avangard sent a letter to SKA general director Dmitry Konstantinov, in which he called on him to refute Rotenberg’s comments that Kravets forced his hockey players to “kill” their opponents on the ice and that he had done so. made when he worked at the St. Petersburg club. . The Omsk statement said the club is ready to defend the honor and dignity of its coaches, players and each of its employees.
— We received a letter from HC Avangard and sent an official response to Omsk explaining our position. Unlike our colleagues, we do not consider it acceptable to make the essence of the response letter public. Let us add that in the flash interview the SKA head coach used value judgments and not statements. And his comments were provoked above all by concerns about the health of the player, whose condition is still unknown. We are convinced that the common goal of all clubs is the development of hockey players and their health, especially before the most crucial stage of the season, ”the SKA press service told in response to a request.
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