“The Finns have become completely insolent. Not only are they doing everything possible to prevent us from returning to the IIHF, but on the tenth anniversary of our last championship, they launched a ridiculous version in the press that Russia won the 2014 World Championship through arbitration. I understand that Europe is now at the height of absurdity and is inventing one fable after another about Russia. In America they probably look at these European fools and laugh.
In general, all the recent victories of the Finns raise big questions in me. Every year, the IIHF judges clearly help the Finns. We must regulate their influence on the arbitration committee; I don’t think this trend in refereeing is accidental,” Kozhevnikov quotes Russia-Hockey.ru.
Earlier, the former president of the International Hockey Federation, René Fasel, called accusations of biased refereeing stupid and expressed disappointment at the comments of a Finnish journalist. In the last match of the tournament, the Russian team defeated the Finnish team with a score of 5: 2. The Finns collected 28 penalty minutes, and the Russian team – 12.
- Kozhevnikov spoke sharply about the World Hockey Championship
Source: Sport
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