{"id":36779,"date":"2018-10-15T13:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T17:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=36779"},"modified":"2018-10-15T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T17:38:53","slug":"khl-disqualified-general-director-of-hc-admiral-vladivostok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/10\/15\/khl-disqualified-general-director-of-hc-admiral-vladivostok\/","title":{"rendered":"KHL Bans Heads of the HC Admiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><i>The KHL imposes a sports corporate ban on Sergei Soshnikov and Alexander Selivanov of the HC Admiral.<\/i><\/h1>\n<h2>A disqualification due to debts<\/h2>\n<p>The League has disqualified the former general director of HC Admiral\u00a0Vladivostok Sergei Soshnikov and\u00a0the new general director Alexander Selivanov. Also, the KHL banned the hockey club from any acquisitions of new players and player exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>According to the KHL representatives, HC\u00a0Admiral\u2019s total debt is\u00a0102.8 million rubles ($1.5 million USD, including arrears for 56.3 million rubles. The sum is said to be players&#8217; salaries and the league membership payments.<\/p>\n<p>The debt appeared when Sergei Soshnikov was in charge of the HC Admiral Association\u00a0as general director. A post he left on May 13, 2018. After his destitution, settlement agreements were signed during June 2018, by the new general director of HC Admiral Association,\u00a0Alexander Selivanov, but those were executed with violations.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the League decided\u00a0to impose a corporative sports ban\u00a0on Sergei Soshnikov and Alexander Selivanov. Therefore the club will lose the access to the CIB (e.g., for trades or signing new players).<\/p>\n<p><b>Dmitry Chernyshenko, KHL president:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8221; The League has a zero-tolerance policy on arrears and overdue payments, and on violation of signed agreements. The ban will be in effect until the debt\u2019s full repayment.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<h3>A different viewpoint on the situation<\/h3>\n<p>On the other hand,\u00a0Sergei Soshnikov called the situation with the club nonsense. As the HC Admiral is a new member of the KHL, the club has no debt whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>One should notice, that the HC Admiral\u00a0changed the legal entity in July 2018. Following that decision,\u00a0 the Board of Directors of the KHL approved the participation of the club in the season 2018\/19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our club as\u00a0a new organization has been functioning since April 20, 2018. It had met all the necessary KHL conditions for participating\u00a0in the league. The only fee the club owes is the one for membership in the NHL. But we keep monthly payments as per its schedule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no arrears of wages to any hockey player, or to any employee of the ANO &#8220;Admiral&#8221;, said Sergei Soshnikov.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HC Admiral plays their home games at\u00a0Fetisov Arena, which has a capacity of 7,500.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u041c\u0438\u0448\u0430 \u041f\u043e\u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430 x Dima Graff- &quot;\u0410\u0434\u043c\u0438\u0440\u0430\u043b&quot; (\u0433\u0438\u043c\u043d \u0431\u043e\u043b\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0449\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8EQwzCDl36E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: <\/p>\n<p><a id=\"-xbNgZSRQiN8gbx1k3VkIg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1047952426\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-xbNgZSRQiN8gbx1k3VkIg',sig:'woTKKvAyt-sMZrWGYKjXVWGNuOLuqA3RxXJ5YiYqcB0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1047952426',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KHL imposes a sports corporate ban on Sergei Soshnikov and Alexander Selivanov of the HC Admiral. A disqualification due to debts The League has disqualified the former general director of HC Admiral\u00a0Vladivostok Sergei Soshnikov and\u00a0the new general director Alexander Selivanov. Also, the KHL banned the hockey club from any acquisitions of new players and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2459,"featured_media":36850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2003,34],"tags":[517,2575],"class_list":["post-36779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-khl","category-news","tag-khl","tag-vladivostok-admiral"],"modified_by":"Daniel Brown, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}