Goalkeepers Andrej Mišurov and Adam Huska showed an unusual show in the Russian continental hockey league match between Omsk and Vladivostok. They threw off masks, traps and taps and let their fists into each other.
Omsk at home led in the third period of Wednesday’s match KHL over Vladivostok 6: 1 and the winners were long ago decided.
The goalkeepers Mišurov and Húska took care of the upheaval, who interrupted the game in the 49th minute. Their subsequent battle lasted more than half a minute.
“I saw Adam moved a little out of the goal and raised his hand. I nodded,” said goalkeeper Omsk Mišurov, how the unusual duel was born.
With the Slovak goalkeeper Vladivostok they exchanged several fist blows, but none of them gained a superiority. Neither could catch and give more shots.
“I missed once. But honestly, it is very difficult to fight in goalie equipment,” Mišurov, 24, smiled.
“A few years ago I was engaged in training with boxers, so I had no problem with my breath. It was hard to say who won, it was 1: 1 on the blows,” he continued. “I wanted to do it for a long time, it was such an unfinished matter,” he said.
Mišurov is a native of Omsk and a bred of the local Avangard. But the post of number one never fought here, he did not succeed in last season just in Vladivostok.
From there, however, he was pushed by the Slovak Húska, who this year returned to Russia after his one -year work in Switzerland. He previously caught in Nizhny Novgorod and overseas, where he wrote one start in the NHL in the Rangers New York jersey.
Vladivostok bet on him and Mišurov went back home to Omsk, where at the beginning of the current year again only two. On Wednesday he only caught for the second time.
After the match, Húska did not mention any personal reasons for the battle.
“It was an emotional match. In the third period, we goalies called on each other and you saw the rest. It wasn’t a bad duel, we shook our hands after the match. No one complained about anything,” said the 28 -year -old native of Zvolena, who caught the Slovak national team at three world championships, including this year.
But who did not like the boxing insert, it was the Canadian coach of Omsk Guy Boucher.
“It surprised me and it’s nothing I want to see. I don’t know what provoked the battle, but it’s good that our goalkeeper didn’t hurt himself,” he said.
“He could hurt his hand or face, and then we would find a replacement, which is not easy at this stage of the season. If I knew it, I would do everything to keep it in the goal. But before I noticed it, it was too late,” Boucher added.
Húska is one of the seven Slovak hockey players who operate in the current year in KHL – a league, which, after Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed the war in Ukraine, experienced a massive outflow of foreigners.
Only Dmitry Jaškin, Ostap Safin and Libor Šulák play it from the Czechs. Safin and Šulák are in Vladivostok teammates goalkeeper Hums.
