Thread: [News] Commodore's KHL Adventure
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Old 11-30-2013, 07:30 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh View Post
I found this hilariously arrogant. I am pretty sure there is a lot of coaching and teaching going on there. Players like Malkin, Ovechkin and Datsyuk don't just grow in trees all by themselves. A Russian player coming to NHL is fully expected to have at least some rudimentary knowledge of English, so that he can communicate with the coaching staff and his teammates. Why should this expectation be any different for an NHL player going to KHL?

Where does he say that anyone should be speaking English? He simply points out they don't and it leads to confusion for him.

Wow, arrogant? Really?
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