Double Olympic champion Vyacheslav Fetisov in an interview with , he recalled how the idea of creating a hockey club was born and came to life “Admiral” .
Admiral has been in the KHL since 2013. On Saturday, in the sixth game, the Vladivostok club beat Salavat Yulaev (3-2), ended the series with the score of 4-2 and reached for the first time in its history the second round of the Gagarin Cup.
– Is it true that the idea that the Admiral Club was born was born on your birthday?
– Vladivostok Palace was designed by Sergei Mikhailovich Darkin (the former governor of the Primorsky Territory – about “”). When I became a senator, we spoke with him in 2008. I then said, “Look, we need a palace, we need a team, we need hockey.
And then the palace was founded – but not quite by hockey standards. We had to redo a lot of things. And under the new governor, these ideas of completion did not have top priority.
And now the new governor of Primorsky Krai, Vladimir Miklushevsky, has come to Moscow to celebrate my birthday. There was also KHL President Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev. And here we are literally before the solemn part held of a meeting. At the buffet table, they went into another room, shook hands.
It took a lot of effort to complete the palace. And the idea of bringing the team to Vladivostok helped complete the construction. This is a separate story, and I would like to thank Sasha Mogilny (former Admiral President – approx. ) and Alexander Filippenko for the fact that they managed to put together a penniless team in an unrealistic time frame. Sometimes Sasha called me with tears in her eyes: “It seems that I will not be able to cope.” I answered him: “San, be patient, my dear…”.
But the team was assembled and, as you remember, already in the first season they qualified for the playoffs, where they lost to future champions Metallurg (1-4) in the first round.
But in this region this sport never existed! But if you implement the idea correctly, you can get a very high quality product that is in demand and interesting to people. It’s a shining example of how to bring a professional team to the area, and it will generate a lot of interest. This is the main task of any league, any direction, Fetisov told .
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