There will be an appeal in the Fedotov case, Ufa will say goodbye to Amirov. Results of the day in hockey
Egor Torishny August 18, 2023, 23:00 Moscow time
The ceremony will take place at the Salavat stadium on August 21.
We present a summary of the main events in the world of hockey for August 18, 2023.
CSKA filed an appeal against the IIHF decision in the Fedotov case
The president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, Luc Tardif, said that CSKA Moscow filed an appeal against the IIHF’s decision on the situation with the contract of Russian goalkeeper Ivan Fedotov.
“Today we received the appeal documents from CSKA and Fedotov. How do I feel about it? No comments”, quotes RIA Novosti Sport to Tardif.
Remember that previously, the IIHF checked the contracts entered into by the goaltender with the Philadelphia Flyers and CSKA, respectively, for violations of the organization’s international transfer rules. The Federation decided to impose a one-year international transfer ban on CSKA and a ban on Fedotov for four months. The start of the disqualification is the date of the first match of CSKA in the 2023/2024 season.
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The farewell ceremony with Rodion Amirov will take place on August 21.
The farewell ceremony with the student of “Salavat Yulaev” Rodion Amirov will take place on Monday, August 21. It will take place on the ice of the Ufa-Arena in Ufa. This was announced by the official website of Salavat Yulaev.
It should be noted that the ceremony will begin at 8:00 Ufa time and will last until 11:00. Possible changes will be announced later.
Rodion Amirov will be buried in the Ishimbay region, with. Bogdanovka. The Ufa hockey student died on August 14, 2023. He was 21 years old. Rodion made his debut for the Ufa club in the 2019/2020 season. Since then, the hockey player has played 79 games for Salavat, in which he has scored 18 (10 + 8) points.
In the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, Amirov was selected by Toronto with the fifteenth overall pick. The hockey player struggled for a long time with a brain tumor. For the first time, the player’s illness became known in February 2022. Since then, Amirov has been undergoing treatment, helped by Salavat and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Canadian defender Merkli and Lazushin signed contracts with Kunlun
Goalkeeper Alexander Lazushin passed the test at Kunlun Red Star and signed a one-year bilateral contract with the Chinese club, the official KHL website reports. Since July, the 35-year-old hockey player has been training with the team and playing for it under a viewing agreement.
In the 2022/2023 season, Lazushin played for Admiral. For a team from Vladivostok, he played 11 matches in which he won three. On his account, 92.6% of the shots reflected, the goalkeeper’s reliability coefficient is 2.13. He played a game “to zero”.
In total, he has 317 games and 112 wins in the KHL. The goalkeeper has already played for Kunlun in the 2018/2019, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 seasons. Lazushin spent a total of 55 matches for the Chinese club. He also played for Dynamo Riga and Moscow, Lokomotiv, Lada and Metallurg Novokuznetsk.
Canadian defender Ryan Merkley has signed a one-year contract with Kunlun Red Star. This was reported by the Beijing club’s press service.
Merkley is the 2017 Glinka Memorial winner and was selected 21st overall in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft by San Jose. In the NHL he played 39 games, scoring 6 (1 + 5) points, at the AHL level he played 121 games, scoring 52 (4 + 48) points.
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Barys is looking for a center forward
Barys general manager Boris Ivanishchev said the Kazakh club needs a central striker and work is underway to acquire one.
“Indeed, the coaching staff needs a center forward. The season is long, anything can happen during the season, the main thing is that there are no injuries. So far, this position is in demand for our team, in order to fulfill the assigned tasks. Work on this is underway, negotiations are underway. Change of CEO? After an unsuccessful season, they drew conclusions. We decided to part with the general manager Vyacheslav Belan. There were several candidates for the position of CEO. By the decision of the founder, Oleg Bolyakin was appointed. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich did not stay at the club, ”the club’s press service quotes Ivanishchev.
