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Red Wings Icon Offers Bad Advice To His Backup Goalie
Detroit Red Wings Hockey Hall of Famer Igor Larionov is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable minds in hockey. His wisdom about the game has earned him the nickname “The Professor.”
However, even professors sometimes give out bad advice. During a KHL game on Boxing Day, Larionov was guilty of such a transgression.
The coach of SKA St. Petersburg in Russia’s KHL, Larionov, was in the midst of game action when he moved down the bench, offering some of his professorial advice to backup goalie Egor Zavragin.
He told his backup netminder to take off his goalie mask. Zavragin did so. Almost immediately, he would regret that decision.
There’s nothing a goalie hates more than when a teammate takes a shot at them when they’re not expecting it.
Usually, such transgressions occur during the pre-game warm-up or at practice.
In this game, it happened in the midst of the action.
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As SKA St. Petersburg was facing Dinamo Minsk, Dinamo forward Vitaly Pinchuk brought the puck along the boards toward the SKA end, passing in front of the St. Petersburg team’s bench.
Timing it perfectly, SKA defenseman Markus Phillips delivered a punishing body check, lifting Pinchuk over the boards. He was still airborne as he went crashing into Zavragin, who was sitting at the end of the bench.
The force of the collision sent Zavragin spilling backwards and down the tunnel leading to the dressing room. Impressively, almost immediately, Pinchuk was back on his feet, climbing over the boards and back into the action.
Red Wings Legend Regrets His Words
“Literally a minute and a half before, I told the goalie on the bench, Zavragin, ‘Take off your mask,” Larionov told Russian broadcaster MatchTV, according to translation provided by the website RMNB. “This isn’t junior hockey. You need to watch the game so they can see your face.’”
Just moments before the collision with Pinchuk, Zavragin found himself dodging a flying puck.
“In the second period, I told him, ‘Take off your mask again,” Larionov said. “‘People want to see you on TV.’ He said, ‘No, I was almost knocked out.’ Zava said he won’t take his mask off again, even on the bench.”
The incident left one unanswered question.
Can a player be penalized for backup goalie interference?
Chickens and geese that went missing from a local nonprofit’s Detroit site were found in the backyard of a nearby home, the director of operations said Wednesday.
The Full Circle Foundation, a Grosse Point Park-based nonprofit, said more than a dozen chickens and geese were believed stolen from a chicken coop on Detroit’s east side that also features the Full Circle Edible Garden.
The nonprofit provides training and job opportunities for young people with special needs.
Neighbors who learned from news reports about the missing flock found the “chickens were being held in the backyard of a vacant home not far from the Full Circle Edible Garden,” said Stephanie DiVirgil, director of operations. She said Ribbon Farm 4-H owns the flock.
“The homeowner was contacted, and she reached out to Full Circle to confirm,” said DiVirgil. “We were able to retrieve all of the chickens and geese that were found on the property, 19 in total.”
The foundation and Ribbon Farms 4-H are working to secure the site, including cameras, fencing and lights.
“We will likely start a fundraising campaign to have these items installed,” DiVirgil said. “We’ve gotten amazing support from the community, including offers to help pay for these additional security measures.”
DETROIT (WXYZ) — Human remains were found in a furnace of an home on Detroit’s west side, the Detroit Police Department tells us.
The remains was found by an individual working on the home in the 5200 block of S Clarendon just after 11 a.m.
Anyone with information can call 313-596-2260 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-SpeakUp.
Stay with WXYZ.com for updates on this developing story.
The Detroit Police Department is investigating after a 5-year-old child was shot in the arm near a park on Tuesday.
The shooting happened at about 8:50 p.m. near the Fargo-Oaklfield Playground on the city’s west side. Police Chief Todd Bettison says the child was in front of his home riding a bike with his father supervising at the time of the shooting.
Bettison says an individual at the park fired multiple shots, striking the child. He says the boy’s father reported hearing shots and the child falling from his bike.
Bettison says the child is expected to be OK.
Bettison says the person appears to have been firing shots randomly, which he calls “problematic.” He says a person of interest is described as possibly between 15 and 16 years old and wearing a mask. He says the person is known to frequent the area.
“When you fire a weapon, what goes up must go down,” Bettison said. “To parents and everyone, know where your kids are. Juveniles should not have guns, and whether you’re an adult or a child, you should not be firing a weapon inside of the city limits.”
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield released a statement, saying in part, “By the grace of God, this young boy will recover from his injury and is on his way home from the hospital. With that said, this incident was senseless and could have had a much more tragic ending.
“Every child in Detroit deserves to feel safe riding their bike, playing outside, and simply being a child in their own neighborhood. We cannot accept a reality where our children are placed in harm’s way because someone chose to recklessly fire a gun.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-Speak Up.
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