“The fans whistled and the Swedes didn’t want to play,” writes the Russian server Championat.ru, for example, about the unpleasant situation in the second period, when there was a real threat that the match, which ultimately ended in a 1:4 defeat by the Czech Republic, would not be finished.
In connection with the inconvenience in the Budvar Arena, when a relatively large piece of ice peeled off and 50 minutes were not played due to the efforts of the organizers to fix it, the Russian server recalled a similar event from the KHL there.
“Ten years have passed since the famous incident in the KHL, which Alexander Radulov called ‘Our Russian collective farm’. In the match of the Karjala tournament between Sweden and the Czech Republic, the exact same situation occurred – the match had to be stopped because of a gaping hole in the ice. Kolkhoz is not just our business, they have it in Europe as well,” Championat.ru compares.
He then presented the entire article with the headline “Czech kolkhoz on the Euro Hockey Tour without the Russian national team.”
The server also took the intervention of firefighters who tried to help restore the ice. He recalled that the DJ in the hall responded promptly and played the song “What are you firefighters, what have you been doing?” on the loudspeakers.
