MOSCOW, January 9, Andrey Senchenko. Hockey players and staff of the Kazakhstan Kontinental Hockey Club league (KHL) Barys cannot get to Magnitogorsk due to bad weather conditions at the destination airport. On Sunday, January 9, Barys is to play an away match in the KHL regular championship with Metallurg Magnitogorsk. The team from Nur-Sultan left for the game on January 8, but the flight with the hockey players was redirected to Chelyabinsk due to bad weather conditions in Magnitogorsk, where the local airport temporarily does not accept flights. Chelyabinsk airport and is awaiting departure to Magnitogorsk. The start of the match with Metallurg is scheduled for 15:30 Moscow time. The Kazakh team went through pre-flight procedures and being in the sterile zone, the press service of Chelyabinsk airport said. As reported in the information desk at Magnitogorsk airport, the airport is closed until 13:00 — for bad weather (runway icing). «The Barys hockey players were supposed to take off at 10.00 (8.00 Moscow time). At 9.34 (7.34 Moscow time), a message was received that the Magnitogorsk airport was closed. Hockey players went through all pre-flight procedures, they are in a sterile zone, «- said the agency's interlocutor.
