Olympic hockey champion and State Duma deputy Vyacheslav Fetisov responded to the words of Jokerit owner Harri Harkimo regarding the club’s performance in the Continental Hockey League (KHL). His words are quoted “Match TV”.
“Well, let them regret it. Aren’t the Finnish hockey players upset about taking Russian money? – said Fetisov.
Harkimo had previously stated that he regretted the club’s performance in the KHL. Jokerit and Dynamo Riga left the KHL at the end of February 2022 due to the situation in Ukraine. With the elimination of the Finns, their rivals Spartak from Moscow automatically advanced to the semi-finals of the Gagarin Cup.
The Finns have twice reached the quarter-finals of the Gagarin Cup. They finished the 2020/21 season in second place in the Bobrov league.
On the 100th anniversary of its foundation on April 29, CSKA won the 2022/23 season Gagarin Cup by winning the seventh match of the final series against Kazan Ak Bars with a score of 3:2. Anton Slepyshev, Vladislav Kamenev and Darren Dietz scored the goals for the Kazan team, while Kirill Petrov and Dmitry Voronkov also scored for the Kazan team.
Previously coach Nazarov answered To the former owner of “Jokerit” with words from Pushkin’s work.