A pro-scout of an NHL club compared the level of hockey in Kazakhstan and Belarus – Hockey

Pro-scout of the club NHL “Pittsburgh Penguins“and ex-club general manager KHL Leonid Vaisfeld in an interview with the Belarusian publication Sport5.by compared the level of hockey in Belarus And Kazakhstanreports Sports.kz.

— How would you assess the level of hockey in Belarus, why did you manage to take a step forward in the development of the game in our country?
— It’s hard to say so, I’m not immersed in this topic. To put it superficially, the right decision was that Belarus does not prevent talented players from leaving for Russia. Still, someone leaves, and new talents appear in their place. Wherever a hockey player plays, he remains a Belarusian, even at the North Pole. If we compare Belarus and Kazakhstan, your country has made much more progress in terms of…