“It freed my hands.” The KHL assessed the consequences of changes at Barys for the Kazakhstan national team – Hockey

The official KHL website assessed the roster Kazakhstan national team on Channel One Cupreports Sports.kz.

“On December 12, the national teams of Belarus and Kazakhstan open the traditional pre-New Year tournament – the Channel One Cup.
The national teams of Belarus and Kazakhstan are by default based on Dynamo Minsk and Barys, respectively; and both base teams now have some kind of problem.

In the off-season, the Astana team made a big bet on foreign players, and in the fall they suddenly said goodbye to all of them. Which, from the point of view of the national team, freed the hands of local hockey players, but from the point of view of the prospects of Barys, which is in penultimate place and has lost eight matches in a row, does not imply the absence of the leaders for an “external” tournament. So this time the base team was Saryarka…