Petersburg SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg said team player Valentin Zykov was lucky to be able to resume his career after a terrible collision with Alexander Radulov.
“The exact diagnosis will be made later. But things could have been much worse there.
We can say that Valya was born with a shirt. He has a broken sinus. Broken upper jaw. He lost all of his upper teeth. They no longer exist. He also has a serious concussion.
Luckily, Zykov could have completely finished his career or be relegated before the end of the season, this has already happened to several SKA players,” explains Rothenberg. “Match TV”.
Recall that on February 3, in the first minute of the starting period of the Continental Hockey League’s (KHL) regular season match between SKA and Ak Bars, Radulov held power against Zykov, who was trying to block the puck.
The judges watched the episode, as Radulov was given a large fine, but in the end they did not see the violation of the club captain from the capital of Tatarstan.
Formerly Alexander Radulov He talked to Zykov about the collision, after which he lost almost all his front teeth.