SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg analyzed the episode when striker Zakhar Bardakov hit his stick during the match with Avtomobilist.
“Of course, I would also like to note the moment when Bardakov was hit on the head with a stick. He may have suffered a fracture. Here you need to watch this episode and once again determine that there is no such injury when someone hits the chin with a stick from the barrier. I don’t think this is hockey,” Rotenberg said at a news conference.
On December 5, Avtomobilist played against SKA St. Petersburg in a regular season game of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Beat St. Petersburg in a penalty shootout. Bardakov scored the first goal. This defeat interrupted St. St. Petersburg club’s winning streak.
Bardakov played in 27 games in the KHL this season, scoring four goals and providing two assists.
On April 29, in the centenary of its founding, CSKA won the 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.
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