MOSCOW, January 6, Andrey Senchenko. First Vice President of Metallurg Magnitogorsk «Sergey Laskov said that it was difficult for the members of the hockey team in Nur-Sultan due to the lack of communication and the Internet. On Wednesday, Metallurg lost away to Kazakhstan's Barys (2: 3) in the framework of the regular season of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) … In connection with the massive protests continuing in Kazakhstan, the meeting was held without spectators with a guarantee of safety for the teams and players from the representatives of the host side. After the match, «Metallurg» could not fly out of the country, the flight with the team was delayed for more than an hour. On Thursday Moscow time, Metallurg announced that the plane had landed at the Magnitogorsk airport. «Many thanks to the Barys team, which provided us with transport and escort. We were at Nur-Sultan airport at 23:30 local time. We landed in Magnitogorsk. almost six hours later, the judges were flying with us. Although some of them should have been left in Kazakhstan. They waited a long time for their plane, which was initially sent to the parking lot. But on the whole, everything was fine. «Barys» proved to be excellent in this situations, special services. We did not experience any problems at the airport, as well as in the city itself. We saw special service units, but without incidents. It was very difficult in terms of the lack of any connection, the Internet. We were guided only by what we saw with our own eyes. » — said Laskov.
