Down-the-line.com/Hockey. Two-time Olympic hockey champion Vyacheslav Fetisov said Russian hockey is currently going through a crisis. According to him, top players are not enough.

“Foreigners are invited because they are quality players. We lack this staff.

The better a player of any nationality is, the faster everyone’s skills grow, including our young guys.

I don’t think we have enough players in the country right now who can raise the level for mega players to emerge. There is a crisis.

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If they invited a Russian legionnaire player, this Slovak goalkeeper, to take the place, then there was no good hockey player in the club.

As soon as Russian hockey players are at a high level, foreign players will no longer have to be invited. It also works with other countries,” Fetisov said. “RBC”.