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Maple Leafs Mikko Lehtonen’s KHL season debut postponed
Photo by Yegor Aleyev\\TASS via Getty ImagesMaple Leafs free agent defender Mikko Lehtonen, playing in the KHL for Jokerit, was due to play in the season opener on the road today. That game was set to take place in Minsk, Belarus, and the KHL has declared it postponed, but has offered no further explanation.
The KHL game between Dinamo Minsk and Jokerit Helsinki, due to be played in the Belarusian capital on Sep. 3, will not go ahead as planned. The league will issue a further statement about the reasons behind this decision in due course.
Belarus, and Minsk the capital city especially, has been the scene of massive protests following a disputed election on August 9.