In fact you sound like abroken record going through the stereotypes, lies, fakes created either by some click-bait-journalists, Russia haters(no matter if they are russian born themselves or not) and propaganda outlets. It is even boring, because nothing comes from what I would not have heard or seen from exactly those sources. "Ze great conspiracy! Bad, bad people put pressure on Bragin to put players on the roster WE THE GOOD AND PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE OF EARTH like". Then comes the usual blame it all on Putin, corruption, whatever. In fact those people are childish. They want shiny, flashy players to play some brazilian style hockey for them. When you tell then, but then we'll lose, they get heart attack. Again, we've had Larionov now with his "progressive" AF ideas. It did not work, because it could not work. But hell yeah! We've had some totally defensively inadequate underaged defendemen in bunches, we've had flashy Amirov whose offence dissappeared in a puff of fairy dust when it mattered. I am all for trying things out, giving younger guys chances. I just don't like hearing that stuff from people who talk about the WJC being a win now thing.
I don't know who you speak to. I don't care. Even if it is such a dumbf*ck like Panarin who happens to be a pretty good hockey player, but also an uneducated idiot and a bum as a person. Big names or even a status of a blogger or journalist does not mean the person has an educated opinion nowadays. That is why I am NOT reading any telegram channels on hockey or whatever other bloggers and wannabe experts. We have a severe shortage of weighed analytics in that field right now.
As for Bragin's decision making, please don't pretend like you know more about it than me. Unless of course you are a FHR insider. Obviously a NT coach is never alone with his decisions and there is pressure and voices and people within the FHR who think they are bigger than the world. But it is not nearly as effed up as the CSKA(or Dynamo) board for example.
As you might take away from my past posts I am nor a fan of Rotenberg Jr. at the helm to put it mildly, but then again,if he was that narissistic all-powerful tyrant we definitely would not have Bragin as HC. With Larionov he just could not lose because of the big name, sadly.
