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The Continental Hockey League (KHL) has approved the indefinite transfer of four Helsinki Jokerit games.
Shortly before midnight, it became known that the game between Riga’s “Dinamo” and Nizhny Novgorod’s “Neftekhimik” was being relocated, as several opponents’ hockey players were found infected with Covid-19. Today, KHL announced that there will be no match between Helsinki “Jokerit” and Kazan “Ak Bars”.
Although all Finnish club hockey players have re-passed the tests and all the results have been negative according to local legislation, Jokerit representatives will have to spend two weeks in self-isolation, so it was previously expected that the next four games with Helsinki club membership would be postponed.
Tonight, KHL has also officially confirmed this – the Jokerit matches against Cherepovets’ Severstal, Magnitogorsk’s Metallurg, Moscow region’s Vityaz and Moscow’s CSKA will not take place on time.
⚡ According to Finnish regulations, Jokerit must spend two weeks in quarantine: https://t.co/LSF1EucPby pic.twitter.com/kDzTmw29Z9
– KHL (@khl_eng) September 11, 2020
‘The Finnish authorities are doing the following [piespiež sēdēt pašizolācijā]if there is a risk of infecting others. We discussed this situation and followed the instructions. We successfully cooperate with both KHL and clubs. I don’t think there is any threat to the season. Although such situations do not happen every day. I hope that everything will be fine, we have been living in this atmosphere for half a year, ”commented Jari Kurri, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Jokerit.
At the beginning of the season, “Jokerit” received a technical loss for not coming to the away match against Minsk “Dinamo”. The Finnish club in the continuation of the championship played Riga “Dinamo” with 3: 1, but destroyed “Neftekhimik” with 6: 0 at home.
Previously, the Nizhny Novgorod team already had problems with Covid-19, because before the home game against the St. Petersburg SKA, almost all the regular hockey players and coaches were placed on the injured list without explanation.
It should be noted that in two of the three games in Riga on the day of the KHL match, they were forced to look for another team of referees, because in one case the appointed judges were exposed to Covid-19, but in the second case the results did not arrive on time.
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