Tag Archives: Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan’s Roman Starchenko Knocked Unconscious Following Nasty Hit At IIHF Worlds (Video)
I’m not sure if the people of Kazakhstan watch a lot of NHL hockey. If so, they may have already known that the game is currently experiencing a head-shot epidemic. If not, they probably learned that fact on Sunday after watching one of their own fall victim to a nasty hit to the head during [...]
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9-Year-Olds Engage In Hockey Brawl In Kazakhstan (Video)
Perhaps the most popular stereotype in the game of hockey is the one that assumes all European hockey players are soft and unwilling to drop the gloves and fight compared to their North American counterparts. While that may be the case in the NHL at the moment, there is reason to believe that this will [...]
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Kazakh Soccer Player Given Lifetime Ban For Flying Kick To The Back (Video)
It appears as though Armand Masimzhanov, a member of the Kazakh league’s FC Kairat Almaty, has watched “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” one too many times. Things got nasty three minutes into injury time during a game between FC Kairat and Lokomotiv, forcing the referees to call the game. That didn’t seem to stop the [...]
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Ankle’s Aren’t Supposed To Bend That Way! (Video)
The French are not particulairly known for their hockey skills, and perhaps this is why. Playing in a relegation match-up against Kazakhstan (seems like quite the epic battle, doesn’t it?) at the IIHF World Championships, France’s Yorick Treille went crashing into the end-boards feet first, causing his ankle to bend in a rather uncomfortable fashion. [...]
