Athletistic / Hockey. Head coach of Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo Igor Larionov after the KHL regular season match against Spartak Moscow (3:7) refused to comment on the issue of excluding defender Anton Sizov from the matches of the team.
“Today we had 18 people playing. You can ask me all the questions about these players, please. But I don’t see the point in talking about it. We ended the story with Sizov, and that has been said. There is no point in talking about it. going back to it, it will be a lack of respect for the players who went on the ice today,” Larionov said, as quoted by the Spartak press service.
This season in the KHL, Anton Sizov played 49 games and scored 14 (2+12) points using the goal+pass system.
Torpedo has scored 74 points in 66 matches and is in sixth place in the Western Conference standings. On February 24, Igor Larionov’s team will play a match against CSKA in Nizhny Novgorod. Starts at 13:00 Moscow time.
Source: Sport

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