National team coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov threw star forward Alex Ovechkin under the bus .
The team -- decades removed from the vaunted Red Army days -- once again failed to win a medal .
National team coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov threw star forward Alex Ovechkin under the bus , and the team -- decades removed from the vaunted Red Army days -- once again failed to win a medal .