IIHF issues suspension for seven players implicated in match-fixing scandal
The IIHF has officially gotten involved in a match-fixing scandal that has been the talk of Belarus hockey for the last few months.
As we had previously reported here, the Belarus Hockey Federation suspended seven players from HC Dinamo-Molodechno for conspiring to lose a match in November of 2019 to HC Mogilyov. The seven players are also facing possible repercussions.
The IIHF stepped in today and suspended those same seven players indefinitely "from all ice hockey competitions or activities authorized and/or organized by the IIHF or any IIHF Member National Association as of 2 July 2020." The decision on the precise length of the suspensions will be determined at a later date.
The seven players are the same as the ones suspended by Belarus Hockey:
• Pavel Boyarchuk, Forward, Belarus
• Stanislav Kuchkin, Forward, Russia
• Vyacheslav Lisichkin, Forward, Belarus
• Alexei Ivanov, Goaltender, Russia
• Nikita Ustinenko, Defender, Belarus
• Sergei Sheleg, Defenceman, Belarus
• Alexander Syrei, Defenceman, Belarus
Source: IIHF
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YESTERDAY
MAY 11, 2026
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| G | A | PTS | ||
| Martin Necas | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Ross Colton | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Nazem Kadri | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Parker Kelly | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Nathan MacKinnon | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Brock Nelson | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Nico Sturm | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Danila Yurov | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Jack Drury | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Brock Faber | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Quinn Hughes | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Nicolas Roy | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Vladimir Tarasenko | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Jack Ahcan | - | - | - | |
| Mackenzie Blackwood | - | - | - | |
| Zach Bogosian | - | - | - | |
| Matthew Boldy | - | - | - | |
| Brent Burns | - | - | - | |
| Marcus Foligno | - | - | - | |
| Nick Foligno | - | - | - | |
| COMPLETE STATS | ||||