The goalkeeper of the Russian national hockey team Ivan Fedotov was detained in St. Petersburg, according to Russian media on Friday, – presumably for evading military service. The goalkeeper was going to leave for the NHL.

Rotation of media data, operatives of the search department and SOBR officers took part in the detention.

25-year-old Fedotova is called the best goalkeeper in the KHL. He won the Gagarin Cup last month this spring. CSKA Moscow has reportedly signed a rookie contract with the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers. Hockey player spokethat is going to move to the US in July.

According to the St. Petersburg “Fontanka”, the request for the detention of Ivan Fedotov, arrived at the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region from the military prosecutor’s office, where, as the publication reported, “there are sufficient grounds to consider Fedotov an army evader.”

“Fontanka” also writes, citing its sources, that the militant-militant is for CSKA, and his naked delay may be connected with this. In CSKA itself, it was discovered that it became known about the detention of Fedotov only from the media.

In Soviet times, CSKA hockey players were considered military personnel and appeared at post-season receptions at the Ministry of Defense in uniforms and shoulder straps. The argument “service in the army” is widely used when it was necessary to refuse to leave a hockey player abroad or to move to another club. That is how I discovered at one time to delay the departure of the Soviet stars Fetisov, Makarov, Larionov and Krutov to the NHL.

Whether the CSKA leadership decided to recall the old practice is unknown.

The argument of “unrequited debt to the Motherland” in the current conditions would sound quite modern – after all, the player decided to sign a contract with a club from an “unfriendly state”.

Interestingly, the current head coach of CSKA Sergei Fedorov himself once fled from CSKA to North America to become an NHL hero, where he became a superstar in the “Detroit”.

What will happen to Ivan Fedotov is still unknown. According to the Russian media, theoretically, he could face Article 328 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for evading military service. The journalists of the Russian “Match TV” resolutely got through to Fedotov, but he did not comment on what had happened.

What already wrote on Twitter, one of the authors of the Philadelphia Flyers official website, Bill Meltzer, “trying to find more information about reports of arrests in Russia of Ivan Fedotov – for” draft evasion “. This could be much more serious than just a situation with the future Flyers keeper.

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