Head coach of Neftekhimik Oleg Leontiev told that he considered the initial situation unacceptable “Metallurgy” off the ice until the end of the Romazan Memorial preseason game.
On Wednesday, in the Ivan Romazan Memorial match with the score 2:1 in favor of Metallurg Andrei Razin took the team to the locker room after forward Daniil Vovchenko was hit by a powerful tackle from Neftekhimiya defender Roman Abrosimov 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 rule violations by Abrosimov, and the Metallurg coaching staff decided to remove the players from the venue.
— Is it fair to take a team off the ice without finishing the game?
– You can’t do that, of course! There were still 11 minutes to play. The fans came to the stands. Well, one player got injured. But you have to finish the game, take the blow. So to speak. Any situation can arise. But the coach has to save face. You play first and foremost for your fans. So fight until the end. There have been worse situations, even dirtier ones. But no one has behaved so radically. Take the whole team and take them to the locker room? I think that can’t be done.
— You worked in the same club as Razin. When did a black cat slip between you?
“This is an old story and I don’t want to talk about it.” But Razin decided to behave this way, he has his own opinion. And I have mine. We stayed with them. It is his right to choose such a position. Personally, I do not want to bring this topic into the public arena for discussion.
— Andrei Razin doesn’t greet you when he meets you?
– Yes, we just don’t communicate. And we try to do it so as not to cross paths.
“I hope this scandal will die down quickly.”
– Certainly! The less, the better. “I myself am for the purity and beauty of sports, for the audience to have fun and for such situations not to happen,” Leontiev told .
Metallurg suffered a technical defeat. The team’s head coach Andrei Razin said after the match that hockey players should be banned for life for such forceful techniques.
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