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Another example of Putin's stupidity.

 

The Russians desperately need US dollars... and Russian players in the NHL typically send most of their cash home.

 

But no, Putin and his idiots want to take an elite athlete, conscript him and put him in the meatgrinder in the Donestk region and have him end up as another dead Russian... good for nothing.

 

Can't wait for the inevitable revolution they have in Russia when the public there finally wakes up... really hoping Putin ends up behind bars.

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10 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

Need someone to smoke Putin. 

No prob; that pony is actually a pantomime horse with a couple of cow-people inside.

 

He's blowing through his conventional munitions real fast; its the nukes and bio to worry about now.

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2 minutes ago, Goal:thecup said:

No prob; that pony is actually a pantomime horse with a couple of cow-people inside.

 

He's blowing through his conventional munitions real fast; its the nukes and bio to worry about now.

Look for cows wearing rubber boots? 

 

 

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Updates on the Fedotov situation:  (I apologize for the size of the screenshots)

 

 

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Also heard that Fedotov is not listed with the other patients in the hospital and his lawyers have not been allowed to see him.

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I'm finding it really, really strange that neither SN or TSN (or even CBC's NHL page) has reported on any of this.  Sure, Fedotov is just a potential backup goalie for a US franchise, but the ripple effect of what's going on is far-reaching, and not just when it comes to the upcoming draft.

 

There were already questions about established Russian NHLers going back to Russia for the summer.  From an article on the subject from the Athletic that was posted yesterday:

 

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When Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a stark warning in March to Russian “traitors” and “scum” living in the West it caused a lot of distress throughout the NHL.

But Putin seemed to be railing at Russian citizens who earn their money in Russia but live in the West, “not in the geographical sense, but in the sense of their thoughts, their slavish thinking,” Putin said at the time.

NHL players, on the other hand, earn their money in the West, but most return to Russia in the offseason. And most don’t voice their opposition to the government. Yet many in NHL circles remained concerned that Putin could thwart the return of Russian hockey players.

While that might seem unlikely, nobody knows exactly what will happen when Russian players start arriving at the Moscow airport later this offseason with an expectation they’ll return to North America for the 2022-23 NHL season.

“It’s a big unknown,” Edmonton Oilers GM Ken Holland said in March.

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While some agents believe Russian players will have no issues leaving the country, Ben Noble, an associate professor of Russian politics at University College London, said the unpredictable nature of the Kremlin during wartime means fears are not unfounded.

“I don’t think the NHL executives’ concerns are blown out of proportion at all,” he said.

Russian citizens have the constitutional right to leave the country, as long as they show the required documentation at the border. However, there are extenuating circumstances under which a Russian citizen can be denied exit. A law, enacted in 1996 — with subsequent amendments — gives the state conditions under which it can block people from leaving the country.

For example, if somebody is in possession of state secrets, or if they are being investigated for an alleged violation of the criminal code, or if they have an unpaid debt.

“But there isn’t anything in the law that allows the authorities to block people from leaving the country simply for saying something that the Kremlin doesn’t like,” Noble said.

Rules in Russia are also susceptible to change — and the legality of constitutional challenges to those changes are unlikely to be aired in court in the middle of a war.

And while it’s unlikely that NHL players would face any sort of legal restrictions if they were to try to return to their teams in the United States or Canada, there is always the possibility that pro athletes face a more informal pressure, Noble said.

Putin and other senior Russian officials have already criticized those who’ve called out Russia’s “special military operation” as not being true patriots and have accused them of being traitors. Behind the scenes, there could be ways in which the Kremlin would try to influence pro athletes if the country’s political leadership didn’t want them to leave Russia.

One of the oft-cited pressure points that NHL players face, particularly in regard to speaking openly in opposition to Putin’s regime, is that most players have family who reside in Russia permanently.

“Looking at the Kremlin’s playbook and what it’s willing to do, we know that, when it comes to members of the political opposition, their family members have been used, and are currently being used, as pressure points to try and influence the activities of those opposition figures,” Noble said.

“So, if Russian sportspeople have family members in Russia, then the Kremlin, if it wanted to, could plausibly apply pressure on these family members in order to influence sports figures in the States.”

The reality is that sport is important for the Kremlin. Russian athletes are a source of great pride and have always been high on a list of priorities of how the country’s government would like to present itself to the world.

While pressuring players to stay in Russia might make a strong statement, Noble said, allowing stars to return to the States would keep the nation on the international stage, ensuring that the Russian flag is, in a sense, everywhere.

“The question then is what, from the Kremlin’s point of view, is more advantageous,” Noble said.

Still, whatever the rules in Russia are now, they are always subject to change.

 

 

Edit: SN finally posted a tiny blurb about the situation.

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On 7/1/2022 at 1:03 PM, Goal:thecup said:

Putin, remembering tripping on the red carpet during his victory lap as greatest hockey player ever,

"Nobody's laffink now, heh, heh, heh."

Russian President Putin slips on ice during annual hockey game on Make a GIF

And the guy who put out the carpet disappeared in the middle of the night never to be seen again.

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On 7/1/2022 at 1:39 PM, *Buzzsaw* said:

Another example of Putin's stupidity.

 

The Russians desperately need US dollars... and Russian players in the NHL typically send most of their cash home.

 

But no, Putin and his idiots want to take an elite athlete, conscript him and put him in the meatgrinder in the Donestk region and have him end up as another dead Russian... good for nothing.

 

Can't wait for the inevitable revolution they have in Russia when the public there finally wakes up... really hoping Putin ends up behind bars.

Putin will end up 6ft-under, encased in a very ornate state-run mausoleum, or possibly even having a freakin’ body-double running Russia, before he is EVER going behind prison bars.   
 

NEVER going to happen, my friend, the best case scenario is that he simply dies or disappears. 
 

 

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On 7/2/2022 at 10:25 AM, Undrafted said:

Updates on the Fedotov situation:  (I apologize for the size of the screenshots)

 

 

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Also heard that Fedotov is not listed with the other patients in the hospital and his lawyers have not been allowed to see him.

^ In hospital?!

 

I voiced concerns on CDC earlier about Podkolzin returning back to Russia this off-season, for these very reasons. A narcissist & tyrannt  like Putin wears his fragile ego upon his sleeve. When the international community banned Russian sports teams from competing in the IIHF world championships & World Cup of soccer play, as a form of sanction for Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine & recently reported war crimes plus defiances by their corrupt state-run drug-user/testing program, I knew it was only a matter of time before Putin would retaliate, in kind.
 

Putin then barring or preventing Russian hockey players from returning to their NHL teams, by any ruse or reasoning, was inevitable. 

 

Wise-up, players, GMs & coaches!
 

Russian tyranny is only going to get worse, until this particular despot is either deceased or made to flee from power, and the latter is highly un-likely.
 


 

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