MOSCOW, Aug 10 Finnish league competition director Arto Järvelä said that there were no instructions from the league that Russian hockey players needed to stick Russian flags on their uniforms. Earlier, the goalkeeper of the Moscow Dynamo hockey club Konstantin Volkov, who played in the 2021/22 season for the Finnish Essyat, admitted that after the start of the special operation of the Russian Federation on Ukraine, he had to stick the Russian flag on his helmet. «There will never be such instructions. At least we did not send such instructions. I did not do this, but I do not know if any of my colleagues did it,» Yarvel is quoted as saying Iltalehti. «Let (Volkov) say whatever he wants. Last season has already passed, the players' contracts have expired, and I will not comment on this situation. The past is in the past,» added Essiat CEO Mikael Lehtinen.
