Dominik Hasek (Photo:IMDb)
Legendary Czech hockey player and two-time Stanley Cup
winner Dominik Hasek has criticized the NHL for the league’s stance on Russian athletes. He defined his objections to NHL’s coverage in a Twitter put up on Oct.
3.
Hasek mentioned that the management of the NHL and its homeowners endure partial duty for the lives misplaced and mutilated in Ukraine, as they enable Russian hockey gamers to freely take part within the league, without a requirement to publicly condemn Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
“After the start of the Russian imperialist war, the NHL became an advertisement for this war, because Russian citizens continued to perform and play in it,” he mentioned.
“Every citizen, unless he is a dissident, is an advertisement for his country’s actions.”
In his view, the NHL is totally acutely aware of this dynamic, and through permitting unfastened participation for Russian hockey gamers, “the NHL is directly responsible for a huge number of lives lost and maimed.”
Hasek specified that his complaint is geared toward NHL’s senior management, versus “regular employees of the NHL, i.e. the players themselves.”
“All responsibility rests with the top leadership of the NHL,” he continues.
“That means 32 individual NHL team owners and Commissioner Gary Bettman.”
The 2024–25 NHL season kicks off the next day, Oct. 4, with a sport between Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils in Prague.
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