Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev threatened the NHL Dominik Hasek’s legend, said the hockey hall at a long -a -social media post this week.
In an X post on Monday, He said he sent two letters to the president of the International Olympic Committee, together with the members of the Executive Board, the President of the IIHF and the members of his Council.
“I inform you that former Russian president Medvedev threatened to kill me,” he wrote. “In addition, among other things, I point out how important their decisions will be in the coming months and again offer help to create rules so that sports competitions are not an announcement of the Russian war and people do not make Bocky for the strength, Coi and Coi. Coi. Ioc. Ioc. Oio. For the entire sports community and also not sports, I will publish them in a few days.”
Hasek, 60, has been a strong critic of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Medvedev, 59, is currently the deputy director of the Russian Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, and in the comments published by the Tass news agency, a state Russian media, his assistance to “Russophobia”.
The comments also included comments that Hasek should be careful to cross the street and that “do not drink bear in unsecured places”, along with a recommendation for the legendary goalkeeper to see a psychiatrist.
The alleged threats Townard Hasek have created a strong response from the leaders in the Native Hask, with the country’s prime minister, Petr Fiala, calling them “unacceptable” but “not surprising.”
The Foreign Minister of the Cecia, Jan Lipavský, described the behavior of Medvedev as “primitive.”
“This time he attacked the NHL Dominik Hasek’s legend simply to tell the truth: the truth about the Russian war and the misuse of sports in promotion. Such intimidation can be normal in the Russia of Putin, not in the civilized world!” Lipavsky said, Conformity with Associated Press.
Hasek has brought the NHL to the task that the league, which allows Russian players to compete despite the current war between Russia and Ukraine.
And in the past, he said that only Russian players who condemned the war should be able to play in the League.
It was particularly vocal when Alex Ovechkin broke the Wayne Gretzky NHL score record Earlier this month in a legal publication in X.
Hasek did not appoint Ovechkin in the position, but the capital star has shared narrow links with Putin, which included the launch of the Putin team in 2017 to support him in the 2018 Russian presidential elections, thought that Oveechkin denied that it was “political things.”
The AP reported that Czech Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said that Hasek would obtain the necessary protection if he needed it.
Medvedev has made other comments about Hasek in the past, with Associated Press citing the Russian saying that Hasek suicide could be expected.
Hasek played 16 years in the NHL, nine of which passed them with the Sabres, including the 1998-99 season that saw Buffalo fall to the stars in six games in the Stanley Cup finals.
He won six trophies from time to time and the Hart Trophy, while capturing the Stanley Cup twice, in 2002 and 2008, with the Wings Network.
Hask was included in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2014.
