Hockey player from Chelyabinsk “Tractors” Charles Robinson beat the captain of Ufa “Salavata Yulaeva” Grigori Panin on the sly, the American deserved severe punishment for his behavior, former head coach of the Russian national team Vladimir Plyushchev told .
On Saturday, Salavat defeated Traktor at home in the Gagarin Cup match (4:1) and equalized the score in the best-of-four series – 1-1. In the third period, the hockey players of both teams started four consecutive fights in a few minutes. Robinson threw Panin onto the ice with one blow, after which he began to fight with Alexei Vasilevsky. For these episodes, the KHL sports and disciplinary committee fined Robinson.
“Panin had his hands down, he was wearing leggings and holding a stick, and Robinson hit him unexpectedly. Apparently they had a verbal altercation before this. This is the style of Americans, who always act unexpectedly, on the sly. Very unpleasant, ugly. Robinson is superior to Panin in all physical parameters. Apparently he was so afraid of him that he decided to strike first. Panin wasn’t ready for that, that was obvious.
We have a disciplinary commission, as the saying goes: the law is the drawbar: wherever you turn, that’s where it ends. “Robinson deserved a severe punishment,” Pliushchev told .
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