"Lada" gets rid of Canadians

Two Canadian hockey players -veteran - striker Bruce Gardiner and goalkeeper Mike Fauntin leave the Togliatti Lada, who became the bronze medalist of the last championship of Russia. According to the club’s official website , the contract is terminated with the first, and the second is put up for sale.

The reasons for this decision are neither the club management nor the head coach of the team Peter Vorobyov. However, sources in the Lada HC believe that Canadian legionnaires simply did not justify hopes assigned to them, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the last championship, Gardiner spent 40 matches and scored only 13 points (4 abandoned goals and 9 assists) according to the “goal plus pass” system. But in his liabilities 126 penalties. And Fauntin, although he played five "dry" matches of 21, but missed 33 goals. That is, the piercing coefficient is extremely low - only 64 percent.

He leaves Togliatti and the ex-candidate to the Russian team, one of the toughest defenders in Russian hockey, 30-year-old Vladislav Bulin. In 37 matches, he "earned" 170 minutes of a fine, he has only "minus 4" usefulness and only 1 goal plus 1 gear.

With almost all the main players, contracts are either already extended, or will be renegotted in the near future. In particular, the world champion 2002 remains in the team and participant in the next world championship defender from Slovakia Ladislav Cherny. However, the option is not excluded that Lada can leave the leaders - goalkeeper Maxim Mikhailovsky, defender Arthur Oktyabrev and striker Alexander Boykov. They are intensively coming to the Moscow CSKA, a well -rising financially rising. A few years ago, all of them already performed under the leadership of Viktor Tikhonov.