CSKA Blasts KHL Over Wrongly Disallowed Goal
CSKA lost 2:4 to Admiral after officials wrongly disallowed Maxim Sorkin's goal; the KHL admitted the error but the result stands.
CSKA say an apology doesn’t change the table.
In the third period, Sorkin (#27) scored in the 50th minute, prompting Admiral’s head coach to challenge for offside. The KHL's video review centre upheld the challenge and chalked off the goal. The call was wrong. The league's refereeing department said as much afterwards, adding that the same error meant Admiral's bench escaped a two-minute delay-of-game penalty that should have followed an unsuccessful challenge.
CSKA, coached by Igor Nikitin, argued the mistake changed the course of the game. At 3:2, they said, the rest of the match would have played out differently.
The defeat stands. CSKA's complaint changes nothing about the 2:4 scoreline in the table,
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