Moscow fan association “Spartak” “Ultra” criticized the red-white hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk “Championship”.
“We do not see any benefit in Kovalchuk coming to our club. We believe that his actions say it all for him. You choose big contracts instead of keeping the fans in Sokolniki happy for a few months; this does not make you an honorable man,” the statement said.
On January 14, Spartak lost to Magnitogorsk Metallurg with a score of 2:6 in the regular season match of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). This defeat was the sixth consecutive defeat of the red-whites. Alexey Zhamnov’s team will play its next match against Vityaz on January 16.
This season, Kovalchuk appeared in seven games for Spartak in the KHL, scoring three goals and one assist. He signed a contract with the red-whites in December 2023.
Kovalchuk is the 2018 Olympic champion and two-time world champion as part of the Russian national team.
Former Spartak player statedKovalchuk holds the locker room with authority.