from the CP via TSN,

Alex Kovalev says it was all made up.
The Montreal Canadiens right-winger insists he didn’t criticize coach Guy Carbonneau or his teammates in an interview with a Moscow radio station two weeks ago. An alleged transcript of the interview, in which he says Carbonneau doesn’t like Russian players, appeared later in the Russian weekly magazine Football-Hockey.
And on Monday, it was translated into French in Montreal La Presse, which devoted nearly its entire sports section to the controversial statements that Kovalev denies ever making. It’s main headline was: Good Information Despite Kovalev’s Denial.

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