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Due to the war against Ukraine, the Swedish federation banned players who stayed in Russia after the start of the war. This also applied to two players who moved to Switzerland this season: current competition top scorer Jakob Lilja (30, Ambri, ex-Dynamo Moscow) and SCB goalkeeper Adam Reideborn (31), who led army club CSKA Moscow to the title last season.
Can they now play for “Tre Kronor” again? “This is a discussion that we will now have when we look at the selection for the Karjala Cup,” Swedish national coach Sam Hallam (44) told “Expressen”. The four-nation tournament with Finland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland will take place from November 9 to 12 in Tampere.
“I think there are two sides,” Hallam explains. “There is a moral side. It is not easy to find the exact truth in all situations. We have observed this in previous cases. At the same time, when war broke out, the players may have found themselves in a situation where there wasn’t much help from the International Ice Hockey Federation or the Swedish Federation.
“It wasn’t that easy to change clubs”
We will probably talk to the players about it soon. But he won’t demand that they make their KHL contracts public to see if there was an exit option.
“I signed a contract before everything started. That was valid. I know a lot of people think it was the wrong decision,” Reideborn explained to Blick last season about his decision to stay at CSKA Moscow. “But it wasn’t that easy to change clubs. After the play-offs of 2022, for example, all options collapsed.”
In addition to Reideborn and Lilja, Johan Mattsson, Robin Press, Fredrik Claesson, who continued to earn their money in Russia, and Adam Almqvist (ex Zug, now Munich) also remained in the KHL after the outbreak of war.
The Swiss association does not have to concern itself with such moral questions. There has not been a Swiss player involved in the KHL since the 2019/20 season, when Sven Andrighetto played for Omsk. (sr)
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team
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SP
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T.D
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PT
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1
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 HC Fribourg-Gotteron
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10
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13
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22
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|
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2
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 ZSC Lions
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9
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20
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21
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|
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3
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 SC Bern
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9
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6
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18
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|
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4
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 Lausanne HC
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10
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6
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16
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|
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5
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 EV train
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9
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3
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15
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|
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6
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 HC Davos
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9
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8th
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14
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|
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7
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 HC Ambri-Piotta
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9
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4
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14
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|
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8th
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 Geneva-Servette HC
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9
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-8th
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14
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|
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9
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 SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
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9
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2
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14
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|
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10
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 EHC Biel
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9
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-4
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12
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|
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11
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 EHC Kloten
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9
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-9
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9
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|
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12
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 HC Lugano
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9
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-11
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9
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13
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 SCL Tigers
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9
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-16
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9
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|
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14
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 HC Ajoie
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9
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-14
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5
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Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
