Nizhny Novgorod coach “Torpedo” Igor Larionov after the defeat of Moscow CSKA in the Fonbet Championship regular season game KHL says whether the team’s injured players will have time to return to the team for the start of the playoffs in March.
On Monday, Torpedo lost to the army team on the road with a score of 3:8. Currently, the list of injured players of the Nizhny Novgorod team includes strikers Alexei Kruchinin, Andrey Belevich, Kirill Voronin and Japanese Yu Sato. In the attack of the third link of “Torpedo” in a meeting with CSKA, 21-year-old defender Nikolai Burenov played.
– We put Burenov in the third link rather out of desperation. We are missing a lot of people, so we needed a hockey player who had experience in attack. Burenov played several games with Andrey Kozyrev in the youth team up front. To be honest, we had no other options.
On Tuesday we will assess the condition of Sergei Goncharuk and Sato. We are not going to draw the last strength from Honcharuk after his illness. It’s much more important to us what’s going to happen in the playoffs. Igor Larionov Jr. will not play exactly, he only returns to Omsk. Kruch is not ready yet, and I think he will only appear in the middle of the first round of the playoffs, Larionov told a correspondent.
Aleksey Kruchinin has scored 52 points (15 goals + 37 assists) in 60 games, second only to Nikolai Kovalenko among the club’s top scorers – 53 points (21+32).
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