Локомотив» не будет заключать новые контракты со старожилами клуба — защитниками Сергеем Жуковым и Алексеем Васильевым, которые с 1 мая стали неограниченно свободными агентами, сообщает РИА Новости. 35-летний Жуков выступает за команду с 1992 года, а 33-летний местный воспитанник Васильев — с 1994 года с перерывом в 1997-2001 годах, когда после завоевания золотых медалей чемпионата России уезжал за океан. 11 мая Алексей Васильев и Сергей Жуков встречались с руководством ярославского клуба, после чего стало окончательно известно о том, что оба игрока покидают «Локомотив». :

Из к/ф «В бои идут одни старики»: - Макарыч, в ставке Гитлера ходят упорные слухи, что некоторых «советских соколов» некоторые несознательные механики перед боевым вылетом крестят...
— В ставке Гитлера все малахольные.

Italian Ice hockey seemed destined to enter the traditional summer lethargy. But no. In a May afternoon comes the bomb and that bomb. What looked like the classic «buffalo» for the consumption of blogs, websites and bar talk, it becomes reality. From the 2012-2013 season, Milan will have a team in the KHL, the Russian league, the second richest league in the world after the NHL. The news from those that fall from the chair in the middle there is Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, and Alexander Medvedev, president of the Kontinental Hockey League. His idea to expand outside Russia's borders and create a true European league can counter, also from an economic standpoint, the NHL, is putting up concrete foundations tremendously. Moreover, when a half to seven digits are zeros, the solutions are found. There are already teams from Latvia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, this year there will be inputs from Ukraine (Kiev) and Slovakia (Poprad), while the next season will be the turn of Germany (Leipzig), and indeed Italy. The negotiations have been conducted in secret by the president of Milan Rossoblu Ico Migliore, who just yesterday morning put on paper the pre-agreement with Medvedev. «This is a four-year pact — Best says — which will begin this season with Milan, who will try to win the Serie A2. From next year, however, there will be two teams: one that will participate in the KHL, and another that will play the top division. We put a clause to join the project because not only to maintain the link with the Italian hockey, but also to help grow the entire national movement. This means that for the best Italian you will have the opportunity to play a few games in a league of very high level as the KHL, and that there will be substantial investment to support the development of talented young people. On one thing, however, let me be clear: Milan will not cannibalize the A1 in the league, and not draw on the Russian players in the league to win the Scudetto. I wish that this opportunity would be read by other companies as a huge opportunity to grow throughout the Italian hockey, and that the spectacle of the KHL, involving fans of all teams. " Currently, the main problem is the stadium (the Forum of Assago is no longer equipped for ice), but with petro-rubles the problem could be overcome. «We have obtained a waiver from the KHL — continues Ico Migliore — to play the first season in the Agora (capacity of about 3,500 people, ed), then a solution must be found. We have at least two years to locate a suitable facility or to build a brand new, perhaps even taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the Expo. " The contact between Medvedev and Milan Rossoblù was initiated by the former coach of SKA St. Petersburg Ivano Zanatta, which will be part of the new staff. From champagne era of bitter orange Vipers A2, ending with strictly Russian vodka and caviar. When there's half of the ice hockey, traveling to Milan with strokes of somersaults. May 5, 2011 This, for Milan but not only, could be the chance of a lifetime. Let's hope it lasts.:

Рижское «Динамо» пока не определилось, кому продать права на телетрансляции своих матчей в КХЛ. На данный момент переговоры с рижским клубом ведут все главные национальные телеканалы – Латвийское телевидение, LNT и TV3 Latvia, сообщает «Телеграф Латвия». В прошлом году права на показ матчей «Динамо» за 1 млн евро получило LTV-7.:

4	94	Торпедо	Свинцицкий Никита	Россия	15.03.94	Н	Ладья
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