Two-time Olympic champion Alexander Kozhevnikov commented on the defeat of the Russian national ice hockey team in the final of the 2022 Olympic tournament from the Finnish team. His words are quoted by Gazeta.Ru.
“When we missed the second one, for five or six minutes it was something like a game. But no one wanted to die, ”Kozhevnikov assessed the defeat with such a phrase. He said that the problem is not in the coaching staff, but in the players themselves, who were not ready to give their all one hundred percent.
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On February 20, the Russian team lost to the Finnish team in the final match of the Olympic tournament and won the silver of the 2022 Games in Beijing. The meeting ended with the score 2:1 in favor of the Finns.
After that, the general manager of the Russian national hockey team, Ilya Kovalchuk, said that reserve players should receive bonuses based on the results of the Beijing Olympics. He said that he would ask for the awarding of hockey players who did not play at the Olympics along with those who were in the application.
Source: Lenta
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