KHL: Barys Astana head coach suspended for 4 games
20:37, 25 November 2014
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) has suspended HC Barys Astana head coach Andrei Nazarov for four games, Kazinform has learnt from Vesti.kz.
Nazarov earned the four-game suspension for an incident during the Barys vs. Ak Bars match in Kazan on Monday (November 24). He chucked his water bottle at Ak Bars captain Alexander Svitov who dropped the gloves with Barys' tough guy Damir Ryspayev. In addition to Nazarov's four-game ban the Astana-based club will have to pay a hefty fine of almost 500,000 tenge. This is the second suspension for the Barys head coach this season. Nazarov got a six-game ban after the infamous incident at the Barys vs. Admiral game in Vladivostok in September.