Striker from Magnitogorsk “Metallurgist » Andrei Chibisov said KHL hockey players are “ready to tear each other apart” in fights, whereas in the American leagues it’s done for show.
Earlier, reports appeared in the media that Sochi head coach Andrei Nazarov expelled team striker JC Lipon for refusing to fight Spartak defender Oleg Evenenko. After that, Lipon was traded to Sibir.
Could Andrey Nazarov have expelled JC Lipon for refusing to fight? I have already said it somewhere in an interview: we cannot compare our fights and our fights abroad. There they are made for some kind of spectacle: they got out, threw down their gloves, threw them up, fought and left. They have few fights that are really fights. And now we have people in the preseason who are fighting against each other and they seem ready to kill each other. There, it takes to start a team, for the fans to say “wow”, but, in theory, there is no such stubbornness in killing each other.
Our peoples are ready to tear each other apart. After the game, of course, they can say “young man”, “fight well done”, but in America everything works out a little differently. I don’t know what happened between Lipon and Nazarov. When I saw him he said he had some kind of injury and because of that he didn’t play. Only two of them know what happened there, and some kind of cartoon could have been thrown in the press, “Championship” quotes Chibisov.
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Source : MatchTV
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