Sports director and general director of Dynamo Moscow Alexei Sopin believes the Utah hockey player Jack McBain could have avoided the forceful decision that ultimately led to a fracture for Washington’s Russian forward Alexandra Ovechkina .
During the third period of the NHL regular season game against Utah, Ovechkin was hit in the knee in a collision with McBain. Based on the results of the examination, it became known that the 39-year-old hockey player had a fracture of the left fibula – Ovechkin was absent for the longest period in 20 seasons in the NHL. He will miss at least four weeks.
“We watch all the replays in slow motion, and it may seem like there’s some sort of malicious intent.” When I first saw this moment, I had the idea that there was no malicious intent there. But personally, in my opinion, it was an unnecessary power move. When we talk to judges, they often tell us that you could have avoided this.
What was the point of this game episode – going to beat Alexander like that? I think he only did it because Ovechkin was against him. You could have walked by quietly and nothing would have happened there, but he went and beat him,” Championship quotes Sopin.
In just 20 NHL seasons, Ovechkin has missed 59 games, 35 of them due to injury.
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