The CHL has canceled the 2022 Canada-Russia series, releasing the following statement:
The Canadian Hockey League strongly condemns the recent actions by Russia involving military force in Ukraine and encourages a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
The event was canceled in 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with both sides winning three games the last time it was held in 2019. It is normally a premier scouting event held in November with representatives from each of the three leagues that make up the CHL, plus a select team from Russia. That will no longer be possible, but the more immediate concern is the rest of the statement and some reporting that emerged earlier in the day.
Dan Milstein, an agent of many of the Russian players in North America, tweeted that the CHL is expected to announce a ban on Russian and Belarusian players from the upcoming draft. Further down in their original statement, the CHL instead says that the date and format of the 2022 Import Draft has yet to be determined and will be announced at a later date. They are “supportive of their [current players] continued development regardless of their country of origin.”
In 2021, 16 Russian players and 11 Belarusian players were selected in the Import Draft.
F*ck Putin
Or did you mean to say Puck Futin?
Cancelling the games is good. Russia shouldn’t play anything against anyone. Imagine them winning. Imagine them hurting another player. No way.
But, I don’t think they should refuse to draft the young players. Russia would love nothing more than to keep their players. We should take them all.
It’s time for all players in the NHL that are Russian citizens to be indefinitely suspended until their country stops the invasion and slaughter of the Ukrainians. The US and Canadian teams and the league should not be paying salaries to citizens of Russia at this time. It is amoral. They can return and play for KHL teams until their country stops the insanity.
That’s ridiculous
horribly unconstitutional at best
Absolutely correct. Send them back until Putin is gone.
Completely backwards.
Beyond the part where this is the fault of exactly ONE Russian person and it’s wrong to punish them based on where they were born…
He HATES that his best players play here and not there. That would be giving him a free win. Russian media would say “our great and glorious athletes have chosen to return home and forsaken the imperial and immoral West!”
Do the opposite, offer them all US citizenship to give up their Russian citizenship. THAT would hurt him.
During WWII. Japanese people were put in internment camps due to us being at war with their nation, something that is acknowledged by most as being a shameful thing to have done. But once again proving that we learn nothing from history, we have knuckleheads who want to single out Russians living here for the actions of their home country (and of course if they’re involved in espionage, that’s appropriate). And they think of themselves as virtuous for taking this stand.
But as for the hockey aspect of this, some teams could snag some real bargains latter in the draft by taking some of these Russian players.
Many high paid Russia players are essentially the same as Russian oligarchs. Their assets should be frozen
So if you don’t like someone, freeze their assets. No due process, no presumption of innocence, just do it cuz we don’t like you! Hitler, Stalin and Mao applaud that idea from their place in hell.
That is correct. Their nation is committing war crimes and killing innocent women and children. Their citizens should not be playing in the NHL
So did you also espouse this same view after 9/11 towards all Arab people? My guess is no.
If public policy is determined on this kind of ignorance, then God help us.
yeah, that’s what I thought when I read “suspend them” and “send them back”. we cant do that. that’s illegal, morally wrong, and ethnically insensitive.
i dont think you know what an oligarch is.