Head coach of Metallurg Magnitogorsk Andrei Razin told that the Neftekhimik striker Romain Abrosimov Throughout the match he tried to injure the Magnitogorsk players, although the coach Oleg Leontiev had to explain to his players that they had to play hockey.
On Wednesday, in the Ivan Romazan Memorial match, with a score of 2:1 in favor of Metallurg, Razin led the team to the locker room after a Metallurg player Daniel Vovchenko fell under Abrosimov’s power blow and fell unconscious on the ice. The hockey player was carried from the venue on a stretcher in a special fixation device. After watching the video replay, the judges found no rule violations on Abrosimov’s part. Metallurg suffered a technical defeat.
— Do you regret having spoken too harshly against Oleg Leontiev at the press conference?
– No, I don’t regret it at all. Teams must respect each other. Especially in the pre-season. And here it was clear that Abrosimov, even in the second period, tried to injure our hockey players. The moment with Shalagin is about the same. Let’s start with the fact that the coach must make it clear during the installation that we are playing hockey and are not trying to bury someone.
— Do you regret taking the team to the locker room? How did the Magnitogorsk fans react?
– I already apologized to them at the press conference. We still haven’t finished the match. But it’s very difficult to play in such conditions. When the team went to the locker room, it was dead silence. Because an extraordinary incident happened. It was impossible to continue the game.
– For what?
— Even if Abrosimov had been sent off for five minutes or if he had been sent off before the end of the match, I would still have taken the team. Because the game went completely in the wrong direction. There was no point in continuing the match. It was very scary on the ice. It would go even further, believe me. For example, there would be a wall-to-wall fight. Who needs that? – Razin told .
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