Athletistic / Hockey. Vyacheslav Fetisov, a two-time Olympic champion and now a Russian Duma deputy, said he was hated in North America. According to Fetisov, who played in the NHL from 1989 to 1998, he was hated because of his nationality.

“I went to play in America in 1989. Imagine: I walk into the hockey locker room, and there it is important to understand that if something happens, they will have your back. But I realize that they hate me on one principle: nationality.

Plyushchev objected to comparisons between Kucherov and Ovechkin

Although I’m not new to this, we crush Canadians and Americans on the ice every year. You could have been offended and run away, but the other option was to prove the West wrong,” Fetisov said, as quoted by Sport-Express.



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