Not Boyarin Morozov

All blows to the KHL will take on an exemplary-positive hero-the new president of the league

Correct excellent students in hockey may play, but they are unlikely to achieve anything in sports, exceptions are rare. Alexey Morozov is one of them. He achieved a lot in hockey, I would even say - but I have to add the word “almost”: he did not become the owner of the Stanley Cup, although he spent seven seasons in the famous Pittsburgh and even played the same link as Yaromir Yagr and Mario Lemier. And he did not become the Olympic champion, although at 20, he almost reached gold in Nagano-1998.

He has everything else. One of the best scorers in the history of domestic hockey, Morozov was the captain of the national team at the Golden Championship of the 2008 in Quebec, where the time for Russian hockey ended (another victory was won a year later). He abandoned the golden puck and made Ak Bars the first owner of the Gagarin Cup in the spring of 2009. He was in every way the ideal face of the new continental hockey league, and in the end, on the eve of his 43rd birth, became its president. A fairy -tale career for a former hockey player, at the present time, is simply unthinkable.

Morozov's predecessors were from a completely different opera. The successful Gazprom top manager Alexander Medvedev, heading the new league, realized his dream to be closer to hockey as the subject of his adoration. Dmitry Chernyshenko, the ex-head of the Sochi-2014 organizing committee, who replaced Medvedev, did not experience any romantic feelings in relation to the subject-he structured him exclusively as a pragmatist. For all the difference in positions and the degree of independence, both chiefs did not know and could not know from the inside-for the same head of Gazprom-Media Chernyshenko, he was not even a hobby. In today's times, this is again not a sin: there would be a manager, but there would be a matter for him. Two presidents were perceived by the majority of fans exclusively as the appointment-dilents, for which they went on occasion.

And scolding Lesha Morozov with his impeccable background, even if there is nothing to scold for so far! This was partly the brilliant thought of the main persons who organized a new purpose: since the time has come, then let the blow to himself take an exemplary-positive hero. Morozov did not hide who the proposal was received from-from the chairman of the board of directors of the KHL (other, and other, and other) Gennady Timchenko and now the deputy prime minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko. They, most likely, conveyed the idea to the main hockey player of the country (and this, as you know, is not Tretyak). Obviously, there were no objections, and the managing director of the Youth Hockey League, Honored Master of Sports Alexei Alekseevich Morozov became president of the KHL. The expected autumn appointment to the high post of the permanent president of the International Federation of Hockey Rene Fasel was obviously postponed for an indefinite period - the agreement with Morozov was signed for four years.

“Oh, Lech, Lech, to be under Gazprom is bad,” along with approval reviews of specialists, there were also such responses, also having grounds. The possibility of maneuver for the new president is really minimal-the deputy prime minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, who has left the successor to the successor, who has been supervising the successor to the successor, is a strategic plan for the development of the League. Behind Morozov - Timchenko and Rotenbergs, whose influence is limitless. Step to the right, step to the left is the end of the career. Yes, Alexei Alekseevich will not play with muscles, he and the youth hockey league, and part -time his native club “Wings of the Soviets” led the extremely neatly and, if possible, conflictly. Well, Morozov crashed slightly in January with the famous Igor Larionov, who in the whole country announced the “terrible corruption” in the MHL - and where are yours, Igor Nikolaevich, evidence? What is the “discussion” and ended.

Of course, the character will have to show the character - strategy strategy, and how to introduce the same hard ceiling of salaries in practice? What, the St. Petersburg SKA with his exorbitant weight and dominance should come to terms with the fact that someone will be on equal terms with him? Timchenko and the company are bad in altruism, even if they are in words for the same possibilities for all clubs. And the outflow of hockey players for the ocean acquired threatening dimensions, and with the eliminated Draw of juniors you need to do something, and build relations with the NHL in a new way, and raise the level of competition, and not offend the national team.

It is almost impossible to become a really significant and independent figure in the given tough framework, and here Alexei Morozov will not envy. Yes, outwardly everything looks smooth - a professional came with an impeccable reputation and managerial experience, albeit small. But too much “but” taking into account the difference in the capabilities of the recruit and the boyar environment.

But frosts are not boyar. Not boyar.