Captain of "Salavat" Panin went to intensive care after a collision in a KHL match

In the first period of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) championship match, Salavat Yulaev hockey club defenseman Grigory Panin was injured as a result of a violent collision with Avangard forward Giovanni Fiore. This was announced by Salavat Yulaev head coach Viktor Kozlov at a press conference on Wednesday, January 29.

"He has a broken rib, he knew there would be a hard hit, on character went there. Basically, as we looked at the video, his elbow hit him in the rib area. This proves that we have the right captain. It was necessary, this power play gave confidence to the team," "Sport-Express" reports his words .

The hockey player played only three shifts in the game, spending a little more than two minutes on the ice, after which he was injured and hospitalized.

Panin, a 39-year-old defenseman, has played 48 games this season and scored seven points (two goals and five assists).

"There have been matches where we started the game from the second or third period on"

Goalkeeper of hockey club "Spartak" Dmitry Nikolaev - about the problems of the Red-Whites, their results in the current KHL season and his wishes for 2025

Earlier, on January 21, the press service of the St. Petersburg hockey club SKA reported that forward Evgeny Kuznetsov will not be able to participate in the Match of Stars in the regular championship of the KHL due to injury. It was specified that he was injured in a match with CSKA Moscow on December 25, colliding on the ice with opponent Vladislav Provolnev.