Olympic champion and three-time world champion Valery Kamensky expressed his condolences to the three-time Stanley Cup winner Vyacheslav Fetissov in connection with his father’s death and promised to show the best hockey at the All-Star Game in Vladivostok in his memory.
On Wednesday, September 4, a match between hockey legends and participants of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) will take place at the Fetisov Arena in Vladivostok. Fetisov had previously told that he would miss the match due to the death of his father.
— The team of legends has a truly combative lineup: Vyacheslav Butsaev, Vitaly Prokhorov, Ilya Kovalchuk, Danis Zaripov, Sergei Mozyakin, Maxim Sushinsky, Sergei Bobrovsky, who won the Stanley Cup this year, will take his place in goal.
Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Fetisov was also supposed to play. But a grief happened in his family, his father died… On behalf of our entire team, I express my condolences and sincere words of support. Alexander Maksimovich loved hockey very much and raised one of the best players in history. And Vyacheslav Alexandrovich himself asked us about this: to dedicate the game to his father. Therefore, tomorrow we will go to the ice of the Fetisov Arena and try to show the best of hockey in memory of Vyacheslav Fetisov’s father.
It will be a spectacular match with the participation of professional athletes, businessmen and government officials. I invite everyone to the stands! – Kamensky told .
Gazprom Media Holding acts as the information partner of the Eastern Economic Forum.
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