Double Olympic ice hockey champion Vyacheslav Bykov told that he would support his former club CSKA in the Gagarin Cup, although he also got on well with SKA and Salavat Yulaev, where he worked in the KHL.
On Sunday, the first stage of the Fonbet KHL Championship will end. CSKA are second in the Western Conference and will face Severstal in the first round of the playoffs.
– The playoffs promise to be very interesting, since the teams are vying for participation in the Gagarin Cup until the very end of the regular season. I am very happy that CSKA and my friend Sergei Fedorov are working confidently towards the end of the regular season and aiming to win.
– In the last games, the army team strikes with super performance.
— It is important to keep this load. This is a signal from CSKA for the opponents: “We are back and we are ready!” It is interesting to watch their Cup matches.
– Do you have your favorite in the next Gagarin Cup?
– First I was brought up by Chelyabinsk hockey, then army hockey, to a greater extent. So, in essence and in life, I am a soldier and I will deal first with CSKA. But I will also follow SKA and Salavat Yulaev, to whom Igor Zakharkin and I also devoted part of our lives and with whom we won Cups. It was a pleasant experience, in these clubs we still have a lot of friends. I can’t wait to see how events will develop, – said Bykov “”.
The opening matches of the Gagarin Cup first-round series will take place on March 1 and 2.
Watch live broadcasts of KHL matches on the federal channel and thematic channels of the holding, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source : MatchTV
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