Russian hockey can still be saved. Soviet manuals

In the world of sports, news came, which inspires at least some optimism in the fans-to the World Hockey World Cup, which will be held in 2024, the NHL will invite the Russian team. This is believed by the insidam of Czech sports journalists. It is unknown, of course, with a flag or even without, and whether hockey players playing the national team can get into the national team. But it is unlikely that Russian clubs, in principle, will be able to delegate someone to the World Cup, because the national teams will play in the strongest compositions, that is, NHL players will take 80 percent of 80 places in them.

But this is still such a future, which is now awkward to look. And in 2023 you can’t look either, but so far, the adult and youth world championships, which were planned to be held in one year, have not finally taken away from Russia.

But you can look at the fast meeting of the Council on the Ethics of the International Federation of Hockey (IIHF), which will consider the instructions of the Russian Hockey Federation sent by the KHL clubs on the conduct of shares in support of the special operation in Ukraine. It was planned to attract fans to these shares, but they somehow stayed away, so that the letters Z shine on the scoreboard or were on posterns of rare people in the stands. Now, because of this, IIHF can not only take the world championships, but also suspend the membership of Russia and Belarus in the international federation, which means that there will be no games at the level of national teams before the return of membership status.

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HC "Dynamo" Moscow

The difference between hockey and football is that in this sport, clubs are almost independent of the international federation. Roughly speaking, she is engaged only in the games of the national teams, including the Olympiads and world championships. And the Russian KHL is a completely autonomous structure that is a commercial league following the example of the NHL. Therefore, the prospects for preserving hockey in a relatively decent form until better times are significantly larger.

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