World champion Zhluktov: Russia barely rebounded without NHL players at the last Olympics – Gazeta.Ru
December 22, 2021 8:51 pm
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Olympic champion – 1976, five-time world ice hockey champion Viktor Zhluktov, in an interview with Gazeta.Ru, suggested how the absence of National Hockey League (NHL) players at the Olympic Games in Beijing – 2022 will affect the chances of the Russian team. Now the composition of the team will be formed from the players of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) played among themselves, but Zhluktov does not see this as a big advantage.
“We’ve always had good guys from the KHL, but at the last Olympics we bounced off four finals with the Germans, won with difficulty (minutes before the end of regular time, Russia was losing 2: 3” and remained in the minority, but took the risk, replacing the goalkeeper on a field player, and Nikita Gusev equalized the score, and Kirill Kaprizov won the victory in overtime. – Gazeta.Ru). So it’s not clear how that will happen. And at the Cup of the First Channel in the last match they showed the level, ha-ha (Russia was defeated in overtime 2: 3. – Gazeta.Ru).
In general, there will be completely different teams at the Olympics. Everything will be different. And the condition of the hockey players will be completely different. The Olympic Games are the Olympic Games, believe me, ”Zhluktov said.
Formerly Olympic champion declaredthat the NHL “does not care about the opinion of the players” and the refusal from the Olympics was dictated only by the desire to make money.