Head coach of Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik Oleg Leontiev said the team’s defender Romain Abrosimov carried out a clean power operation against the attacker of Metallurg Magnitogorsk Daniel Vovchenko during a pre-season match.
On Wednesday, in the Ivan Romazan Memorial match, with a score of 2:1 in favor of Metallurg, Andrei Razin led the team to the locker room after Vovchenko was hit by Abrosimov’s powerful move and fell unconscious on the ice. The Metallurg hockey player was carried from the venue on a stretcher in a special fixation device. After watching the video replay, the judges found no violations of the rules on the part of Abrosimov.
Metallurg suffered a technical defeat. The head coach of the Ural team, Razin, said that hockey players should be banned for life for such violent acts.
— Rolling along someone else’s blue line is a difficult task, and on top of that the player has his head down. As a defender, I can say that if I see a player rolling on the blue, for me, the most comfortable thing I can do is make a force move.
This is not a reproach to Vovchenko, but good health to him. I will not teach him, but you cannot lower your head on the blue line. You are driving at high speed, it is dangerous. There are a lot of power moves in hockey, you have to keep your eyes open.
Listen, there was practically no power technique there. Vovchenko himself hit Abrosimov as if he had hit a wall. A power move is when you are met very hard and you become disoriented. He just rolled, there was no speed, almost to a standstill. Absolutely pure power. What are your complaints about the defensive player? – Leontiev said at a press conference.
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