On February 12, the Joint Disciplinary Chamber of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF) and the Continental Hockey League (KHL) rejected Novosibirsk Siberia’s appeal to deduct four points from the regular season for violating the limit on foreign players. This has been reported Official website of the KHL.
In January, Sibir suffered four technical defeats for violating the foreign player limit. Currently, clubs can have 3 foreign players in their squad. Siberia’s fourth legionnaire was defender Fedor Gordeev, who was ineligible to play for the Russian national team at the time of the club’s application for the season. Later, the Russian Hockey Federation granted him Russian sports citizenship.
“According to KHL regulations, a player’s sports citizenship for the season is determined at the time of the player’s application and does not change until the end of the current season’s championship,” the KHL statement said.
Siberia is in 10th place in the Eastern Conference standings with 60 points after 63 matches. On February 15, Sergei Krivokrasov’s team will play against Neftekhimik.
The current winner of the Gagarin Cup is CSKA. On the 100th anniversary of its establishment on April 29, our Ordu team won the seventh match of the final series against Kazan Ak Bars and won the cup.
Hockey fans before carried out Mass dancing in the stands of G-Drive Arena.