Former Buffalo Sabres Goaltender Dominik Hasek Says Allowing Alexander Ovechkin’s Son To Skate at NHL All-star Game Is “Heinous Act”
Two-time Stanley Cup champion and six-time Vezina Trophy winner Dominik Hasek decried the NHL after the organization allowed Alexander Ovechkin’s son, Sergei, to take part in the NHL All-Star game in Florida over the weekend.
Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins invited Sergei Ovechkin, his father Alexander Ovechkin, to join him on the ice for the breakaway challenge. The trio went down the ice, passing the puck between them and then finally handed it over to Sergei. Sergei Bobrovsky was the Florida Panthers goaltender.
Hasek lamented the moment writing on Twitter. “The NHL has sunk to rock bottom!”
“Letting Ovechkin’s son perform on the ice at the NHL All-Star is spitting in the face of approximately 500 killed, thousands injured and tens of thousands of kidnapped Ukranian children.” He elaborated.
Hasek concluded: “The NHL and Gary Bettman must pay for this heinous act!”
Hasek responded to the compliments of several users by claiming that he did it to be appreciated. “save many human lives.” Albeit it’s unclear how condemning Sergei Ovechkin participating in NHL All-Star game saves human lives.
Hasek, however, wrote to one user. “Glad to do it. i am only trying to save many human lives.”
He wrote from one to the other. “Glad to do it. It is for a single target. Save many lives.”
This is the latest comment from Hasek, who called for the NHL to ban Russian players due to the conflict in Ukraine. He wrote the following tweet in February 2022. “What!? Not only an alibist, a chicken s**t, but also a liar! Every adult in Europe knows well, that Putin is a mad killer and that Russia is waging an offensive war against the free country and its people.”
He called for Russia to be expelled from the NHL. “The NHL must immediately suspend contracts for all Russian players! Every athlete represents not only himself and his club, but also his country and its values and actions. That is a fact. If the NHL does not do so, it has indirect co-responsibility for the dead in Ukraine.”
Hasek closed the thread. “I also want to write, that I am very sorry for those Russian athletes, who condemn V. Putin and his Russian aggression in Ukraine. However, at the moment I also consider their exclusion a necessity.”
He would go on. His view on The Athletic Further details on why he pursued Ovechkin.
The outlet was informed by him: “We know that if we don’t stop the Russians in Ukraine then we will be one of the next in line and the tens of thousands of dead and mass graves will be on our territory.”
This is what the former Buffalo Sabres goaltender said. “It should be remembered that the participation of Russian ice hockey players in the NHL is a billion-dollar advertisement for the Russian state and its actions.”
“I think that the value of all Russian athletes who compete with us is in tennis or hockey, etcetera, is worth many hundreds of billions of dollars annually to Russia and its imperialist war. And we give it to them for free, unfortunately,” he detailed.
His comments on Ovechkin were not taken seriously by him. “I called him chickens–t because I was very upset with what he said.”
“He said politics is not connected to sports, and he doesn’t know about war. Of course, there is a lot he can do,” Hasek asserted.
In an open-letter, he further explained why he wanted Russians to be banned from the NHL December “I consider it important to also mention Russian athletes who, like all of us adults, are responsible for the actions of their country. First of all, I want to emphasize that every Russian athlete has the right to any opinion about the war in Ukraine, and we should always respect that. Of course, this does not mean that we have to agree with it.”
“However, unless we want to support Russia’s war in Ukraine and all the horrors that come with it, we cannot allow Russian athletes to compete with us at this time. I do not consider their non-participation in any way a sanction against them, but to encourage an end to this war thereby saving tens of thousands of lives, including their fellow Russian soldiers, who were recruited to fight,” He added.
While Hasek’s arguments might convince some people, it doesn’t convince this author. Some athletes are against the governments’ actions. Punishing people for a crime they didn’t commit is also un-American.
As for Ovechkin’s son participating in the All-Star game, in no way, shape, or form is it an heinous act, and it most certainly is not promoting Russian’s interests in the war in Ukraine.
What do you make of Hasek’s comments?
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