07-01-2022, 12:12 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Should have paid the bribe. If he's a conscript they can't legally send him into combat in Ukraine without signing a contract.
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07-01-2022, 12:44 PM
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Extremely petty.
In the Olympics, Fedotov was 1.61GAA and 943SV%. He looked to be the international goaltender for Russia for the foreseeable future. I wonder what the Russian players already in the NHL will think about this. Guys like Zadorov will denounce it, but what does Ovechkin say?
If Russian players start to announce that they will not play for Russia going forward, if they draft Fedotov into active service, they might be able to save his career, and maybe his life.
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07-01-2022, 01:20 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Toronto
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If he was drafted and they have evidence that he was going to skip out on his obligation to report and it is actually a law and obligation to report, then I don't see any problems with it. I have no idea though what the laws are in Russia around this.
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07-01-2022, 04:59 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Should have paid the bribe. If he's a conscript they can't legally send him into combat in Ukraine without signing a contract.
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Yeaaaa like they care about the legalities
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07-02-2022, 06:18 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Extremely petty.
In the Olympics, Fedotov was 1.61GAA and 943SV%. He looked to be the international goaltender for Russia for the foreseeable future. I wonder what the Russian players already in the NHL will think about this. Guys like Zadorov will denounce it, but what does Ovechkin say?
If Russian players start to announce that they will not play for Russia going forward, if they draft Fedotov into active service, they might be able to save his career, and maybe his life.
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It's not like Russia plays in any tournaments anymore, anyway.
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07-02-2022, 11:58 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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Bribery and politics have nothing to do with it. Fedotov is one of the best (if not the best) goalie in KHL today. Probably, the best incoming goalie prospect in the NHL system. Striking similarities to Vasilevsky's play. His intentions to leave CSKA (owned by the Army) for Philadelphia and his arrest for draft dodging (enforced by the Army) are not coincidental. To think otherwise is naive.
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07-02-2022, 12:18 PM
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CSKA Moscow is owned by Rosneft. Which in turn is majority owned by the Russian government.
Anybody who plays for CSKA Moscow is technically military personnel.
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07-02-2022, 12:22 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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Rosneft is just a placeholder. CSKA has always been Army (translated literally as Central Club of the Soviet Army).
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07-02-2022, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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07-02-2022, 05:14 PM
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Either to keep him in ill health so he can not travel, or to put something in his system that would disqualify him from playing in the NHL. Weird draconian stuff. Hopefully they don't do any permanent damage.
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07-02-2022, 06:19 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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If I was a Russian player, there is no way I would be going home this summer. Heck, I would be renouncing my citizenship at this point.
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07-02-2022, 08:55 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: 110
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There’s an Athletic article about Russian players who have gone back home and how they may have challenges. It mostly seems to focus on obtaining work visas, which many of them couldn’t get during the last 2 years, but also on the possibility the government might play games.
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07-02-2022, 09:51 PM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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I hope Ovechkin goes home for the summer.
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07-02-2022, 10:04 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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That's ####ed. Injecting detainees, I'm guessing without consent or transparency either. There are no lines they wouldn't cross.
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07-02-2022, 10:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by djsFlames
That's ####ed. Injecting detainees, I'm guessing without consent or transparency either. There are no lines they wouldn't cross.
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That’s the way it works with dictatorships.
Be thankful.
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07-03-2022, 11:02 AM
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@karl_khl:
Fedotov was sent to the closed city of Severomorsk in Murmansk Oblast in the northwestern part of Russia, per Russian media. This is were the administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet is located.
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07-03-2022, 11:16 AM
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All I can get
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Former US Ambassador to Russia....
https://twitter.com/user/status/1543456804998455296
My guess is that a lot fewer foreign nationals play in the KHL next season.
What's happening with basketball player Brittney Griner currently should be a cautionary tale.
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07-03-2022, 01:41 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Toronto
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Former US Ambassador to Russia....
https://twitter.com/user/status/1543456804998455296
My guess is that a lot fewer foreign nationals play in the KHL next season.
What's happening with basketball player Brittney Griner currently should be a cautionary tale. |
Brittney Griner's situation is something else that has confused me. The reports are that she was caught taking marijuana into Russia where it is a banned substance. What am I missing? Like, as per Canada's laws (where marijuana is actually allowed), someone not declaring their possession of it on entry into Canada is a criminal offence.
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07-03-2022, 02:02 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by activeStick
Brittney Griner's situation is something else that has confused me. The reports are that she was caught taking marijuana into Russia where it is a banned substance. What am I missing? Like, as per Canada's laws (where marijuana is actually allowed), someone not declaring their possession of it on entry into Canada is a criminal offence.
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She was "caught" with hash oil in vape cartridges, totaling 0.702 grams
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