MOSCOW, July 23, Alexander Sergeev. CSKA Moscow President Igor Esmantovich said, that the hockey club has nothing to do with the situation with the ex-goalkeeper of the team Ivan Fedotov. Earlier, the military registration and enlistment office detained 25-year-old Fedotov in St. Petersburg. The goalkeeper, after the end of the season in the Continental Hockey League (KHL), where he played for CSKA Moscow, signed a contract with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). At the moment, the athlete is in a military unit in the Arkhangelsk region and, as his lawyer Alexei Ponomarev noted, «how can he keep fit.» «Am I to blame? Guilty of what? We have nothing to do with the army at all. We are a commercial club What does it mean that we were offended by his departure? Is he the first to leave? We were already offended by both Radulov and Nesterov, Mamin, Lyubimov. Everyone returned and played, «Esmantovich said. «Fedotov and I had no agreements, he moved from Chelyabinsk to the old contract. We calmly talked about finances, continuing our careers. It didn’t work out. Nobody pressed anyone, nobody promised anything to anyone. Did I interfere in this situation with the army? What should I have interfered with? On the first of May Ivan's contract expired. He signed a contract with Philadelphia. How was I supposed to intervene? If you tell me the way, then I will intervene. Call? Well, what a call, what are you? Why are you torturing me for a hockey player who has a contract with » Philadel phew»? What should I understand in this situation? I served. Like all. He must have been drawn by the law. And he serves,» the CSKA president added.
