Ilya Samsonov asked out of his season debut with HC Sochi during the second intermission: ‘I realized that if this continued, I might end up in an ambulance and go straight to the hospital’

Ilya Samsonov asked out of his season debut with HC Sochi during the second intermission: ‘I realized that if this continued, I might end up in an ambulance and go straight to the hospital’

Ilya Samsonov made his season debut for HC Sochi on Sunday after signing a two-year contract with the KHL team the day before. The former Washington Capitals goaltender was sensational in HC Sochi’s 5-2 win over Spartak Moscow, surrendering only one goal and stopping 30 of 31 shots — good for a .968 save percentage. The only blemish in Samsonov’s first game in six months and 18 days appears to be due to his conditioning. He did not feel well an…