Head Coach S.K.A. Romain Rotenberg said he was very satisfied with the striker’s return Nikolai Prokhorkin who was out of hockey for nine months due to injury.
SKA defeated Sochi on Sunday in the Fonbet match of the KHL Championship with a score of 6:3. In this meeting, the 2018 Olympic champion Nikolai Prokhorkin played for SKA for the first time this season.
“Kolya hasn’t played for almost a year, we are very happy to have him back,” Rotenberg said. – It is clear that it is very difficult for Prokhorkin now, for him the season started only today. We know Kolya very well, we won both the Gagarin Cup and the Olympic Games in Korea with him. There is a lot of work to be done to bring Prokhorkin to the previous level. But today’s game showed that he still has some qualities that many hockey players don’t have. Can play bright and disciplined, contribute to victory. Let’s see how quickly he regains form. But, of course, Kolya will play, because only through matches can he get the tone we need.
– Did you originally plan to put him in the top three with Yashkin and Gusev? Potentially the strongest line in the KHL.
– Sure. Prokhorkhin played with Gusev in the MHL, where they also had Kucherov in the top three. I remember it well, these connections do not disappear anywhere. Today we tried this combination. In the future, we will see. So far, without euphoria, the person has not played for almost a year, it is a very difficult story. And the potential of this trio is very serious.
Prokhorkin finished last season at Avangard. During the summer, he underwent surgery and ended up missing most of the current championship. For SKA, the striker played earlier from 2016 to 2019.
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