Znarok make an informed decision not to include Kovalchuk in the team at the World Cup – Leon – R-Sport

PETERSBURG, April 1 -. R-Sport, Artem Lisowski The head coach of Russian national ice hockey team Oleg Znarok make an informed decision not to include striker SKA St. Petersburg Ilya Kovalchuk in the national team to the world Cup, said the agency “F-Sport” ex-coach of SKA Yuriy Leonov.

world Championship will take place in Moscow and St. Petersburg from 6 to 22 May. On Friday Znarok announced to journalists that Kovalchuk will not be summoned to the team. In the regular season, the season 2015/16 hockey player had 50 matches for the SKA, which scored 16 goals and made 33 transfers. In the playoffs, the CHL Kovalchuk was removed from the SCA after the first game of the first round against Yaroslavl “Locomotive”, back in the second round against the Moscow “Dynamo”, but after three matches of the series will again not to play.

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“This is a coaching decision may Znarok Ilya spoke, and they have come to a common denominator, that the player will not be included in the composition. Perhaps this decision influenced by the fact that Ilya almost did not play in the playoffs and had not a good season for myself, there was information that he was removed from the composition of the SKA iz-za reduce fitness. on the other hand, before the start of the world Cup there is still time to get in shape if we take such a decision, apparently, felt that Kovalchuk will not have time to dial the desired condition means that the coach and the player to think things through and weigh everything, “-.. said Leon phone .

According to the source, in the absence of Kovalchuk’s leadership role in the world Cup can take on CSKA Moscow striker Alexander Radulov. “I think the leader of the Russian players not only can be, and will be Radulov” -. He said

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Leonov believes that in the case of the unsuccessful Russian team Znarka can recall no Kovalchuk in the lineup. “All this happens: if there is a result, then all is well if it is not, it starts the search for the reasons I will not exclude that talk about the absence of Kovalchuk (in case of failure at the World Cup) will be..,” – Said Leonov

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