Head coach of SKA Romain Rotenberg said the club was not risking the striker’s health Evgenia Kuznetsova providing the hockey player with the opportunity to recover from an injury.
On Sunday, in the FONBET KHL championship match, SKA suffered a home defeat against Kunlun with a score of 4:5. It was previously reported that Kuznetsov would be out for around two months due to injury.
“You don’t need to look up any medical history here.” She’s gone! It happens, you know, in hockey, when a player gets a really big load on his shoulders during a throw-in or during a fight. Your shoulders need to be pumped up, you need to constantly pay attention to them. Honestly, we are all very lucky. Because the first diagnosis was very bad. The MRI wasn’t that simple.
But the good news is that it’s not as serious as our medical team thought. Very soon we will see Kuznetsov. You saw that he was already training today, working at the gym. Hockey is a tough game and puts a lot of strain on your shoulders and knees. If you watched yesterday how Montreal played against Toronto, Patrik Laine simply injured his knee in pre-season. They took him off the platform by his arms.
Hockey is very cruel, knees and shoulders fly. Such injuries most often occur in hockey. So we need to train more. As Leningrad Street taught us, it is better to strike first. To avoid injury. You can never leave them, you can’t be afraid. It’s a man’s game, that’s why everyone loves hockey so much.
— So Kuznetsov won’t come back in two months?
– Certainly not. You know, it’s a conservative approach. Medical. We are now working to make Kuznetsov 100% ready. We will not risk the health of our players, and in particular that of Kuznetsov. We need him to win big games.
If it was the playoffs, we would have given Zhenya a chance and he would have played. Even today. It happens here that people even play with broken bones. In 2015, when we won the Gagarin Cup, Nikolai Belov played with fractures throughout the playoffs. He received an injection every day. But he contributed greatly to the final victory. This happens when there are no other options. But at this stage, we will not endanger the health of our hockey players,” reports a correspondent, reporting Rotenberg’s words.
SKA is third in the Western Conference standings with 13 points. Kuznetsov scored one goal and provided four assists in nine regular season games.
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