Olympics: Team Russia 2022
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SoundAndFury
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You know what? Again it's the KHL reporting. Why? This is a hot mess. Until there is something official from actually FHR it is a stupid, dumb, idiotic soap opera of musical chairs.
FHR only has this to offer
Экспертный совет рекомендовал назначить главным тренером национальной сборной России Алексея Жамнова
It says AGAIN "recomended". Whatever those fools mean. Can't they just shut up, not leak anything and come up with a final decision?
SoundAndFury
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I mean all the biggest sites report this official decision, sports.ru has "reaction interviews" with pretty much everyone on the planet. I don't think this is the case of it "not being official", it's just FHR being slow or inconcrete if anything.
P.S. Cue in my post about Znarok or any other decent coach not wanting to dance to idiotic opera of musical chairs.
Sports.ru, just like a bunch of others had lengthy features, interviews and whatnot about Znarok's appointment not two days ago.
There is only one source that is official. It is the FHR. And it's website says "recomended". That's close to nothing in my book.
Kuznetsov has been suspended 4 years from international play . It also wouldn't be surprising if Malkin didn't play in the Olympics .
You are bit late to the party. There is a discussion in this tread on the matter. While I personally don't believe there is any chance the FHR succeeded in lifting his suspension.
TheGoldenJet
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Malkin has only been declared out for 2 months. He is on track to be back well before the Olympics, and will play barring any major setbacks in his training.
Paxton Fettel
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Regarding the coach selection: who cares? This team usually gets eliminated in the quarterfinals, Zhamnov cannot fail more than his predecessors. And whether he has been recommended for the job or actually appointed, doesn't matter.
What worries me is our situation down the middle with Kuzy out and Malkin recovering from injury, but Finland in Sochi was without its top 3 centers...then again it's Finland.
What worries me is our situation down the middle with Kuzy out and Malkin recovering from injury, but Finland in Sochi was without its top 3 centers...then again it's Finland.
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Eye of Ra
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if malkin, panarin and kuznetsov dont play, then russia dont have better forwards than canada, usa, finland and sweden.
Ovechkin - Grigorenko - Kucherov
Kaprizov - Shipachyov - Tarasenko
A,Svechnikov - Namnestikov - Radulov
Guryanov - Barbashyov - Buchnevich
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Eye of Ra
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Well maybe then the wingers are better. But dont tell me that the russian centers are better than the centers canada usa, sweden and finland have if malkin and kuznetsov is out
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Mathieukferland
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Assuming everyone (Kuznetsov however unlikely, Malkin, Shipachyov) is there I would say they’re 3rd behind Canada and the USA. Shipachyov is a player for me who is of top 6 quality in the NHL, hence why I would have them above Finland or Sweden in that department
Eye of Ra
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He failed in Vegas. With your logic, Omark is top 6 quality in NHL. Shipa would not make Sweden or Finland.
Shipa-grigorenko-namnestikov-barbashev is not better center-line than barkov-aho-hintz-kotkanemi and zibanejad-pettersson-backström-william karlsson
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SoundAndFury
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That's if we disregard the fact that neither Malkin nor Kuznetsov has been particularly good recently.
That's only true if you define walking away as a failure. The difference between his situation and Omark's, who spent years and years trying to hang in in the NHL, is huge.
In scouring my brain to come up with some kind of valid justification for naming Zhamnov coach of the Olympic team, the most prestigious of all sports venues, the only thing I could come up with is that Zhamnov had an NHL background, which might, in the most far-fetched sense, give him some kind of connection with the NHL stars on the team. But if you don't accept that super-reach, I have nothing left to offer.
The statement was Malkin will miss the first two months of the season at least. It won't be surprising if he doesn't play in the Olympics.
TheGoldenJet
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That would certainly be a surprise. Out two months means a return date of Dec 12th. The Olympics are in February. Even if Malkin misses an extra 6-8 weeks on top of those two months, he will still make it back in time for the Olympics.
