“People in preseason are ready to kill each other.” Forward “Metallurg” Chibisov – about fights in the KHL

Striker Metallurg Magnitogorsk Andrey Chibisov said that hockey players in the KHL are “ready to tear each other apart” in fights, while in the American leagues this is done for the show.

Earlier, information appeared in the media that Sochi head coach Andrei Nazarov expelled team forward JC Lipon for refusing to fight Spartak defender Oleg Evenenko. After that, Lipon was exchanged to Sibir.

Could Andrey Nazarov have expelled JC Lipon for refusing to fight? I already said somewhere in an interview: you can’t compare our fights and fights abroad. There they are made for some kind of show: they came out, threw off their gloves, threw them up, had a fight and left. They have few fights that are really fights. And now we have people in preseason grappling with each other and they seem to be ready to kill each other. There it is necessary in order to start a team, so that the fans say “wow”, but, in theory, there is no such stubbornness to kill each other.

Our people are ready to tear each other apart. After the match, of course, they can say “young fellow”, “well done fight”, but in America everything is set a little differently. I don’t know what happened between Lipon and Nazarov. When I saw him, he said that he had some kind of injury and because of this he did not play. Only the two of them know what happened there, and some kind of cartoon could have been launched into the press, ”Championat” quotes Chibisov.