Boris Mikhailov, a two-time Olympic champion as a member of the USSR national hockey team, responded to the words of former Stanley Cup winner Dominik Hasek about Russian athletes: shouldn’t If they support SBO, they can participate in international competitions.
“I don’t even read this crazy person’s comments. Why would you comment on an idiot? “Apparently he got hit in the head too many times by the puck for making such statements,” said the legendary hockey player.
Hasek made his statement in response to the remarks of Boris Mikhailov and Vladislav Tretyak about the low performance of the 2024 World Junior Championship without the Russian national team.
In the spring of 2022, the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) decided to prevent Russian hockey players from participating in international tournaments, even with neutral status, and the organization also stripped Russia of the right to host the youth world championship at home in 2023. .
In March 2023, the IIHF extended the suspension for the 2023/24 season. At the same time, the president of the organization, Luc Tardif, said that the IIHF council will return to the issue of accepting the national teams of Russia and Belarus in March 2024.
Putin before given Russian citizenship for a Canadian hockey player.