Oleg Bolyakin explained the composition of the Kazakhstan national team at the Asian Championship – Hockey

Head coach Kazakhstan national team Oleg Bolyakin explained why the attacker Zakhar Parkhomenko and defender Kirill Nikitin don't play on Asian Championshipreports Sports.kz with reference to Shaiba.kz.

— Because we have a limitation in the application. We thought that there would be a rotation, initially there should have been 25 players, Kirill Nikitin should have been with us, but before the start of the tournament, they said that only 20 field players were needed. “We decided that Zakhar would not participate,” the specialist said.

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