From an article that appeared today in Sport Express:
Atlanta Thrashers forward Ilya Kovalchuk will not be called to Russian National team for the upcoming World Championships in Riga, Latvia.
National team head coach Vladimir Krikunov (who is also the head coach for Dynamo Moscow) is adamant he will not call Kovalchuk.
"I gave him a chance at the Olympics and at the World Championship last year", said Krikunov to Sport-Express.
"Who was it that got drunk in Vienna during the last World Championships? Take a guess! But for some reason, this wasn't written about in the (Russian) press. Instead, the coaches were blamed for everything.
"I can’t give him another chance. Let him travel to Hawaii and have a rest.
"He is an excellent player but when he arrives to a new city he takes the map and starts to find some restaurants. I’ll never work with him again in the National team."
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