Head Coach S.K.A. and first vice-president of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation (RCF ) Romain Rotenberg in an interview with he praised the striker’s playing qualities Kirill Marchenko .
Marchenko played for SKA from 2018 to 2022. Last May, he signed a two-year contract with the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets.
– Columbus forward Kirill Marchenko has already scored 13 NHL goals. What do you think of his debut? And they will say that at SKA last season, Marchenko didn’t have the chance to open up like that.
“Why, we gave Kirill plenty of chances,” Rotenberg said in an interview with . — Marchenko is a very strong hockey player. But last season the situation was such that he was taken to the Olympics. He was in the second group, that is, he did not play at all for several months.
Returned to Beijing SKA. We tried to put it into play. But it didn’t work out as the games went on – you remember that due to the pandemic the end of the regular season was canceled, the playoffs started right away. Cyril played in the major leagues, trying to train. But it’s hard when you don’t perform for several months, you end up without a normal training process. He fell offside.
But the same thing happened to our goalkeeper Sasha Samonov. He also ended up in the second group, without playing in training. Andrey Kuzmenko returned from Beijing before the start of the hockey tournament. He managed to train with us, got certain conditions.
And we have always believed in Marchenko. He’s a great power forward and we’ve always given him plenty of play. His NHL debut is now the common credit of everyone who helped Kirill both in the SKA system and before us. We see how he worked on himself, and we discussed it with him. Cyril did very well in physics. You see, he has become much more powerful. Well, somewhere, something happened that we always talked about – he started picking up the game more, quitting, climbing on a penny. And we see where that leads.
We see it in Andrey Kuzmenko. This is good, and it indicates that we are on the right track. Our players are evolving. Yes, of course we want these guys to play with us. And we think these guys should be playing on top teams. Not in Columbus and Vancouver, which are not in the playoffs. It’s a fact, the Blue Jackets are the last team in the NHL right now. These guys should be playing in Boston, Colorado, and in the first or second tie. Here is their level. This is the goal they must aim for.
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