«Team of the Ministry of Defense»: Fedotov was predicted to sail on a submarine instead of the NHL

MOSCOW, July 4, Andrey Simonenko.It is not surprising if the goalkeeper of the Russian national hockey team Ivan Fedotov, who was detained last week by the military registration and enlistment office in St. Petersburg, is sent on a long-term voyage in a submarine so that during this time the contract he signed with Philadelphia becomes invalid, the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR believes , a well-known Soviet football player Anzor Kavazashvili in the past. On Friday, the media reported that Fedotov was detained in St. Petersburg by members of the military registration and enlistment office. On Sunday, the goalkeeper's lawyer Alexei Ponomarev said that his client was sent, presumably, to Severomorsk, but there was no connection with him. On Monday, a number of media outlets, citing sources, reported that the athlete was in Severodvinsk. Earlier this year, Fedotov, who faces up to two years in prison under Article 328 of the Russian Criminal Code for draft evasion, won the Gagarin Cup with CSKA and then signed with the Philadelphia Flyers in the NHL. He planned to go to the USA in July. «Fedotov signed a contract with Philadelphia with the knowledge of the Russian Hockey Federation. Without the federation and our legendary goalkeeper Tretyak, he would not have signed anything. Apparently, at this stage, the Ministry of Defense gave the command not to let him go overseas. And if the contract is not fulfilled, then Philadelphia will issue a document on violation of contractual obligations. And this document will go to CSKA, as the club in which he played before, «Kavazashvili said, setting out his vision of the situation with Fedotov. «If only «he signed a contract on the sly from CSKA and the Russian Hockey Federation, it would be a different story. But here the situation is different. I have an assumption that they are hiding him. If he is in Severodvinsk, then I will not be surprised that they will put him on some kind of submarine And they will send him to sail. In six months he will sail, and here the issue has already been resolved. And he will not go anywhere else. I don’t see another option yet, «concluded the interlocutor of the agency.