Artem Penkovsky is in the hospital, the club management fears for his health and future career
The young promising forward of the “black and whites” suffered a fractured jaw and an open craniocerebral injury at the end of the match with Admiral. Far Eastern defender Stepan Zakharchuk pushed Artem into the side. It took a long time for Penkovsky to be revived with the help of ammonia. Zakharchuk was sent off until the end of the match.
Photo by Artem Penkovsky from the Traktor HC website
After an examination by doctors, it turned out that Artem’s injury was more serious than it seemed at first. Much more serious. “For obvious reasons, we cannot voice the diagnosis,” says Traktor director Ivan Senichev. “But everything is much worse than we could have imagined.” Artem is now in the hospital, the best doctors in Vladivostok are helping him. His relatives came to see him.” The episode with Penkovsky occurred a few minutes before the end of the match with the score 7:2 in favor of Traktor. By crippling Artem three minutes before the siren, Zakharchuk did not help his team in any way. Rather, on the contrary, he set me up.
Zakharchuk has a reputation as one of the dirtiest KHL players. Championat.com listed the “feats” of the tough guy. In the derby between Salavat Yulaev and Ak Bars the year before last, Zakharchuk broke Anton Lazarev’s ribs. Radek Smolenjak from Slovan spent a long time healing a broken collarbone after Zakharchuk. Stepan gave it to Dynamo Riga player Arvids Rekis and Sergei Zinoviev from Salavat Yulaev. Magnitogorsk defender Alexander Budkin received a concussion and hidden head injuries after a collision with him. And Zakharchuk received only eight matches of disqualification.
Dynamo Riga player Arvids Rekis was hit by Zakharchuk's train
“I hope the reaction of the KHL leaders will be adequate to the action,” sums up Ivan Senichev. At one time the Continental Hockey League permanently disqualified (however, later pardoned) Damir Ryspaev from Barys. But after the clashes with him, no one was injured. The NHL slapped a 20-game suspension on Washington forward Tom Wilson for hitting St. Louis forward Oskar Sundqvist.
“Without Zakharchuk, everyone was calmer and had fewer injuries,” championat.com quotes two-time Olympic champion Alexander Kozhevnikov. - We need to get rid of such people. There are people who are naturally gifted with the talent to cause injury. The man wanted to show himself - just what did he want to show?
The management of Traktor HC intends to seek maximum punishment for the actions of the defender of the Far Easterners. A letter was sent to the first leaders of the League indicating the diagnosis and asking them to carefully evaluate the episode of deliberate infliction of injury by Zakharchuk.
P.S. As it has just become known, the KHL has imposed a fine on Admiral defender Stepan Zakharchuk for 15 matches.
As SE learned, Traktor forward Artem Penkovsky may miss more than a year due to injuries received after a forceful tackle by Admiral defender Stepan Zakharchuk.
In the Sunday match in Vladivostok (Traktor won 7:2), in the 57th minute of the match, Zakharchuk broke the rules by pushing Penkovsky onto the board. For the foul, the Admiral hockey player received a disciplinary fine until the end of the game.
What they say at Traktor
Today, Traktor director Ivan Senichev made an official statement.
Unfortunately, everything is much worse than we could have initially imagined,” Senichev noted. - The consequences of Zakharchuk’s dirty trick against our player are quite serious. He is now in the hospital with the team doctor and the best medical specialists in Vladivostok are doing everything possible to improve the situation.
IN at the moment There are relatives next to Artyom. For obvious reasons, we cannot announce the diagnosis, but the problem is quite serious.
We wrote a letter to the first leaders of the League indicating the diagnosis and asking them to very carefully evaluate the episode of deliberate injury by the Admiral player Zakharchuk. We will seek the maximum punishment for his actions.
What injuries does Penkovsky have?
According to our information, Penkovsky was diagnosed with a brain contusion and multiple fractures facial bones skulls Recovery from this type of injury can take a long time: according to SE, the period of complete rehabilitation can be more than a year.
What they say in the KHL
Chairman of the KHL Sports and Disciplinary Committee, Vice President of the League for Development Valery Kamensky commented to SE on the situation with Zakharchuk.
We are collecting data on Zakharchuk from all authorities,” said Kamensky. - We know that it is a very gross violation and injury. According to the regulations, the maximum possible disqualification is five games. The league president or vice president may recommend additional suspensions. The decision will be made by the SDK.
- Do you have information about the severity of the damage?
Of course, the league doctor collects all the information. The picture is serious - a person may lose his life for a year or more.
Later it became known that The sports and disciplinary committee of the league decided to leave unchanged the punishment imposed on Zakharchuk under clause 1.13. Article 27 of the KHL Disciplinary Regulations. Taking into account the history of violations committed by the player over the past two seasons, and Penkovsky, against whom the rules were violated, received a serious injury, it was decided to disqualify the defender for five matches. This is the maximum possible number of games for this violation. The hockey player will also be subject to a fine.
In addition, the League leadership decided to additionally disqualify Zakharchuk for 10 matches. As a result, the player will miss only 15 games.
About Zakharchuk and Penkovsky
32-year-old Zakharchuk played in the KHL for Lada and Ak Bars, and won the Gagarin Cup in 2010. Last season he moved from the Kazan club to Torpedo, and in the summer he could not find himself new team in the KHL. Stepan began the championship in his native Samara CSK VVS in the VHL, and on October 4 he signed a contract with Admiral.
Previously, Zakharchuk had repeatedly injured his opponents. Here are his latest victims:
Pavel Koledov, Lokomotiv (the team of the injured hockey player at that time), March 2018 (5 matches of suspension)
Alexander Budkin, Metallurg, September 2017, severe concussion (8 matches disqualification)
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Why Traktor is failing the post-bronze season Injuries are not the main problem of Traktor After changing the head coach, Traktor played six matches, achieved victories in two, lost in two overtimes, and lost two more. Of course, it is obvious that the team failed in Cherepovets (0:4) and Nizhnekamsk (1:4). And no one will deny that Traktor is in a deep crisis and the team is completely dismantled. But at the same time, taking into account all the circumstances, the results of six matches under Alexei Tertyshny are quite satisfactory. Now the main thing is not to let go of direct competitors in the fight for a place in the playoff zone of the Eastern Conference, and the new head coach is able to solve this local problem (there are only two victories before the eight). But in general it is clear that completely different decisions need to be made. Before the first big pause, Traktor is still the tenth-place team in its conference, a team and organization with an incredible number of various problems. The main thing on the current agenda, of course, is injuries to leaders. In the match with Severstal, first-line center Paul Szczekhura spent just over four minutes on the ice, leading defenseman Evgeniy Ryasensky spent just over nine. A day later it turned out that the Canadian would miss two months, and former defender Russian national team - a month (both - according to unofficial information). So, by the end of October, six Traktor players were on the injured list: Richard Günge, Alexander Bergstrom, Artem Penkovsky, Andrey Erofeev, Paul Shchekhura and Evgeniy Ryasensky. With the exception of Erofeev - all players of the main team. Injuries to five leading hockey players, as well as Vitaly Kravtsov’s call to the youth team for a tournament in the Czech Republic (the ninth pick of the 2018 NHL draft will miss at least one of the three remaining until big break matches), of course, complicate the already difficult situation in Traktor as much as possible. However, Kravtsov’s calls to the national team are a natural process that was known in advance. In mid-December, the striker will most likely leave for youth championship world to Vancouver and Traktor will not be able to count on him for about a month. Minus six players from the main squad is bad. But you need to be aware that injuries are only one of the reasons for the situation in which the team finds itself. If we look at Traktor’s progress over the season, we can see that the problems began much earlier, when all the leaders were still in service. For example, 0:8 from Jokerit in Helsinki and 1:6 from Spartak in Moscow happened with Shchekhur, Gunge and Bergström on the ice. In order to understand the reasons for Traktor’s crisis during the season, it is necessary to consider the systematic nature of the club’s work over a period of time, for example, a calendar year. Only in this case will the assessments be objective: Traktor’s problems did not begin in the fall and not because of injuries to leading players, but in April/May and for a completely different reason. Statistics By October 29, “Traktor”: a) before last command leagues in terms of goals scored (37 in 22 matches), lower and only slightly worse than Severstal (36 in 23); b) the last team in the league in terms of the number of shots on target (509 in 22 matches) and, accordingly, one of the five worst in terms of shot percentage (7.27). "Traktor" transferred opponents only in 4 matches of the season. The leaders in the number of shots on target are Avangard (822), Metallurg (800) and Neftekhimik (774). However, for Neftekhimik this figure is seriously corrected by its not very high percentage of sales (6.46, one of the two worst in the league). The leader in terms of shooting percentage is Barys (12.82); c) second from the bottom team in the league in terms of goals scored during the game full squads(22), only Dynamo Riga (20) has less; d) a team with the absolute worst record in the league in the “matches without goals scored” column. Traktor already has 7 of them (!). Even the outsider of the Eastern Conference and the entire league, Siberia, has less (5); e) a team that spends an average of less than 12 minutes per match in attack and ranks at the end of the second ten according to this indicator. The leaders, SKA and CSKA, spend approximately 14 minutes per match in attack. In addition, Traktor ranks fourth from last in terms of defensive reliability (67 goals conceded in 22 matches, of which 48 were when playing at full strength, which is the second lowest figure in the league); the team's power play stopped working (not a single converted attempt in the last eight matches, one in ten), where total percentage- 15.7 and eighteenth place in the league (in the playoffs of last season, Traktor had a percentage of 23.1 and was fifth in the Gagarin Cup); and also ranks in the top five for play in the second and third periods. The conclusions from these statistics are simple: Traktor is experiencing serious problems in attack and with the implementation of chances, problems with game balance, balance and the level of the composition, as before - with the game in defense, and also - as shown last matches– some problems with physical training. For example, Neftekhimik looked much fresher than Alexey Tertyshny’s team, even against the backdrop of reverse acclimatization after returning from the Far Eastern trip. Numbers are an ideal mathematical reflection of reality. But behind each of these parameters, or behind their complex, there are long or short chains of cause-and-effect relationships. That is, all statistics have a history, there are objective reasons why Traktor has such indicators and reached them just six months after the 2018 bronze medal. Cause-and-effect relationships Traktor’s problems this season are not an accident or a coincidence. Their reasons/roots should be sought primarily in the April personnel decision of the club’s management, which refused to sign a new contract with Anvar Gatiyatulin, the main creator of last season’s victories. The specialist himself expected to stay in Chelyabinsk for at least two more years. Anvar Gatiyatulin was replaced by German Titov in June, and already in the summer this decision looked absolutely controversial, since there were candidates on the coaching market with much more interesting resumes. No less controversial was the decision to change the concept of the game, shifting the emphasis to attack. At the same time, “Traktor” did not take into account / did not want to take into account many nuances. Here are the most important: 1 – having lost the head coach, who had formed his own in two and a half years corporate identity, “Traktor” destroyed the team’s system of work and play, which brought Chelyabinsk bronze medals 2018, and most importantly, did not offer anything in return. 2 – the new head coach’s views on work processes and hockey did not coincide at all with his own level, as well as the level of the squad that was at his disposal. The management of Traktor frankly overestimated the capabilities of the players, as well as their own capabilities, conducting a very weak campaign to recruit the team (where it is necessary to take into account not only the departed players and newcomers, but also those who signed new contracts with Traktor or extended old ones). The lineup changes only looked good on paper. It may have been possible to maintain it at 85 percent, but its level clearly fell and did not meet the stated objectives. In addition, Traktor lost key, system-forming players in each line. After a third of the season, the team still does not have an equivalent replacement for Pavel Francouz, best goalkeeper KHL 2017/2018. He could not be convinced for a new contract, this is certainly a loss, but this is more a story about a dream than about management - the Czech honestly worked in Chelyabinsk for three years and went to the NHL. Also, Traktor lost the creative and motor-driven Alexey Kruchinin, but this is also not a failure of the general manager/club, but a fact - the decision to acquire the striker was made by the top officials of SKA, Traktor had no chance. But there are also obvious mistakes, they should be acknowledged. So “Traktor” did not offer new contracts to Yuri Petrov and Alexander Chernikov, who were excellent at killing time in the minority and did an excellent job defensively when playing in equal strength; and also calmly released Linus Videll to Dynamo Riga, who by the end of October is in fourth place in the list of league scorers with 24 (12+12) points. And absolutely Traktor should have offered a new contract to Maxim Yakutsena, an intelligent player who knows how to create and convert chances. All these hockey players (with the exception of Videll) came to the club on the initiative of Sergei Gomolyako, currently involved in scouting for SKA and the Russian national team system. In turn, almost all summer transfers (with the exception of Alexander Bergstrom) were disappointing. First of all, Evgeny Lapenkov. After 17 matches, he has 0+0 and a utility score of -10. Traktor needs to change their striker as soon as possible, or resolve the issue with him through a waiver draft. Unfortunately, Anton Glinkin, who has only one goal in 22 matches and “-8”, will not return to his best Chelyabinsk examples. Ryan Stoa, of course, scored 8 (3+5) points in 22 matches with a utility indicator of “-7,” but from time to time he plays not in the second line (to which he was signed), but in the fourth. Neither Alexander Sudnitsin with a reliability coefficient of 3.04 and a percentage of reflected shots of 90.1, nor Grigory Zheldakov (“-7”) leave a solid impression. Several of the team's leading players immediately became older, which means that they definitely did not improve in speed. Even now, Traktor, in principle, has enough hockey players for the systematic and balanced hockey that the team played, for example, under Anvar Gatiyatulin, but practically none for a fast and conventional attacker. Despite the payroll being decent for the KHL. Key points for understanding the reasons that led Traktor into a deep and severe crisis after two months of the season: the complete failure of the idea to change the game concept, ill-conceived steps to build the team, as well as mistakes in choosing the head coach. The future It cannot be said that Traktor is not doing anything to correct the situation. Of course, neither the club director Ivan Senichev nor the general manager Evgeny Gubarev admits their professional mistakes, but they are still trying to find a way out at the club. The steps and decisions of “Traktor” are so far standard: a change of head coach (Titov – Out, Tertyshny – In) and work on the player market; in the near future, they will be added to the rise of hockey players in the main team of the club vertical. Using the usual scheme for the last two years (inviting only experienced hockey players who have played in the KHL), Traktor bought Chelyabinsk striker Yegor Dugin from Sibir and found free agent Oscar Bartulis in Riga. Last season, this strategy looked correct. The Traktor general manager essentially made only one mistake, signing Gilbert Brule, but quickly and efficiently corrected it by exchanging Brule for Richard Günge after six matches. This method is not working yet this season. Dugin’s transfer is good, the striker will add balance to the team, there is only one question - why they didn’t sign him back in the summer, when Egor, as an unrestricted free agent, was training in Chelyabinsk and could have been given to Traktor for free. As for Bartulis, it is not yet known what form he is in, since the defender did not undergo pre-season training and did not have match practice for two months. Most likely, Traktor will continue to work on the player market and sign several more strikers. To what extent is this possible now and to what extent are there resources for this – both professional (for the general manager) and financial (for the club). In addition, it is imperative to experiment with young people from the farm club, despite the fact that this will not have an immediate effect. Chelmet, which ranks second in the VHL, has several interesting players, ripe for Traktor. VHL top scorer-defender Alexander Shepelev, defenders Ilya Karpukhin, Evgeniy Petrikov and Dmitry Alekseev, forwards Nikita Tertyshny, Alexander Podkorytov, Maxim Shipin and Denis Mosharov. These hockey players should have been approached in the summer. In any case, the composition needs to be seriously shaken. Exchanges, terminations, signing of newcomers and promotion of youth from the VHL. This will cost the club money and, of course, guarantees absolutely nothing, but it must be done. Alexey Tertyshny is a good option for Traktor in the current situation for many reasons. He knows the club vertical and Chelyabinsk realities well. Anvar Gatiyatulin has a high opinion of him - last season the specialists had a lot of contact when Gatiyatulin worked with Traktor, and Tertyshny with Chelmet; five years ago they also simultaneously worked in the system teams (“Polar Bears” and “Chelmet”). Tertyshny has experience working in the KHL - in the 2016/2017 season he was an assistant to Vladimir Yurzinov Jr. at Kunlun Red Star, then Chinese club made it to the playoffs. But you need to understand that Tertyshny is working and rebuilding the gaming model in conditions of a severe crisis, there are now too many gaming problems in the team, there are still people on the roster that the hockey community and Chelyabinsk fans have been talking about for several years in a row, and there are conceptual problems in the organization itself related to development strategy. Traktor must decide what they want from this season and how they will develop the club further. First of all, decide for yourself. In assessing the situation, all interested parties need to be objective about the events of the past, carefully analyze the present and think about the future: keep in mind not only the upcoming matches and the fight for the playoffs right now, but also the future, the length of time hockey players will be on the injured list, as well as many other factors/details/nuances, as new problems will be superimposed on current ones. And of course, do not forget about the political situation in the Chelyabinsk region. In particular, it is necessary to think now about the contracts of the main team players: only four have agreements until 2020 (Sudnitsin, Glinkin, Polygalov, Sholokhov), for all the rest they expire in April 2019. It is not yet entirely clear whether the club is ready for this and the people making key decisions in it (more likely no than yes - for many reasons), but the processes, with a high degree of probability, will go in this direction: most likely, Traktor will have to create a completely new team in the near future.
Defender of HC "Admiral" Stepan Zakharchuk, who inflicted serious injuries on Chelyabinsk "Traktor" striker Artem Penkovsky, as a result of which the hockey player is still in the hospital in Vladivostok, received a 15-match disqualification and was subject to a fine, PrimaMedia news agency reports with reference to the official website KHL.
Let us recall that at the end of the match between “Admiral” and “Traktor” on October 7 in Vladivostok, Primorsky team player Stepan Zakharchuk performed a forceful move against Chelyabinsk striker Artem Penkovsky, as a result of which he was diagnosed with a broken jaw and an open head injury. Now the forward is in a hospital in Vladivostok, his family has flown out to see him, he may miss the rest of the season.
“The League has and will continue to pursue a policy of intolerance towards excessive rudeness and cruelty on the ice. Zakharchuk, unfortunately, is known for precisely this style of play. We believe that the situation in the match did not require such aggressive actions from him. However, as a result of a dirty trick, the player " Tractor "Artem Penkovsky, according to preliminary data, will miss the rest of the season at least, it is not yet clear how this injury will affect his future career. By imposing a long disqualification, we emphasize that the KHL will not allow such rudeness," said the vice president of hockey operations KHL Georgy Kobylyansky.
According to Traktor director Ivan Senichev, the consequences of Zakharchuk’s forceful move against the player are quite serious.
“Unfortunately, everything is much worse than we could have imagined at first. He is now in the hospital with the team doctor and the best medical specialists in Vladivostok are doing everything possible to improve the situation. For obvious reasons, we cannot voice the diagnosis, but the problem is quite serious. The episode occurred over a few minutes before the end of the match with the score 7:2 in favor of Traktor, and there is no way to call this other than deliberate rudeness. I hope that the reaction of the KHL leaders will be adequate to the action. I would like to especially express my gratitude to the doctors of Vladivostok for all the help provided and wish Artem. patience and health,” says the official Traktor website.
The agent of the Traktor striker Shumi Babaev said that he will appeal to civil courts and intends to achieve an indefinite disqualification of Zakharchuk.
“Frankly speaking, this decision caused me great bewilderment. We all remember the situation with the defender of Barys and the Kazakhstan national team Damir Ryspayev, when my player was given a corporate indefinite disqualification. Then for everyone it seemed normal, although the guy did not kill or injure anyone injuries. Here we see a completely different situation. A person who regularly “kills” his fellow players, injures young guys, receives a ridiculous 15 games of disqualification. And it’s also important that a day has passed since the incident. hospital, and Zakharchuk didn’t even bother to apologize to Artem,” “Championship” quotes Babaev as saying.
"Currently I am in North America, and here the Washington player Wilson received a 20-match suspension and a huge fine for an injury inflicted in the preseason. But the person who was injured did not have multiple fractures and an open head injury, as was the case with Penkovsky. “I am in constant contact with the management of Traktor and hope that Artem will recover in the near future.”
Double Olympic champion Alexander Kozhevnikov is sure that hockey players like Stepan Zakharchuk need to be gotten rid of.
“Without Zakharchuk it was calmer and there were fewer injuries for everyone. His desire to play is understandable, but he already had enough problems. You can’t do that, of course. It was calmer without him.
Should the KHL impose a lifelong ban on Zakharchuk? I don't think so. Other people should do this. I'm just saying that it was calmer without him. There are simply people who are naturally gifted with the talent to inflict injuries. Moreover, the man wanted to show himself - just what did he want to show?” sports.ru quotes Kozhevnikov as saying.
Note that on October 4, it was announced on the KHL website that “Admiral” had signed a two-way contract for one season with defender Stepan Zakharchuk, who began the season in the VHL club CSK VVS. This was Zakharchuk's first game for Admiral.
Let us remind you that on Sunday, October 7, HC “Admiral” in Vladivostok lost to HC “Traktor” from Chelyabinsk with a crushing score of 2:7. Thanks to this victory, the Chelyabinsk team rose to ninth place in the standings Eastern KHL conference. The Sailors are in 11th place in the same division.
The next game of “Admiral” will take place today, October 9, at 19.30 on the ice of the Fetisov Arena. Primorye will compete with Beijing Kunlun Red Star.
