Beijing, Feb 3, Andrey Senchenko. Any decision of the leadership of the Continental Hockey League ( KHL) regarding the holding of the regular season will be painful for the clubs, says the head coach of the Latvian national team Harijs Vitolins. On January 12, the KHL leadership decided to suspend the regular season due to an increase in the number of cases of coronavirus infection in the league teams. «Any option will be painful for the teams. Perhaps teams that will play at the world championship should be treated with understanding: those who play in the playoffs will not be able to help the team.As for the early end of the regular season, imagine how hard it will be for professional hockey players who will be left without playing practice until August. Something must always be sacrificed, perhaps even the composition of the national teams,» Vitolins told reporters.
