Former striker CSKA Member of the Club Supervisory Board Pavel Bure told that CSKA is Russia’s strongest hockey brand and compared it to the Montreal Canadiens.
In the KHL playoff final last season, CSKA under Sergei Fedorov beat Ak Bars Kazan and won the Gagarin Cup for the second year in a row. On May 30, a ceremony in honor of the club will take place at the home stadium of the Rouge-Bleu.
– On May 30, a gala evening will be held in Moscow in honor of CSKA, winner of the Gagarin Cup. What do you say to army fans?
– Winning the championship cup in the KHL is not at all easy. I know inside out how the guys have played – both with injuries and overcoming each other through physical pain. It was a real fight of men. And look, the guys have won the seventh game of the series in two seasons! This suggests that CSKA players have a strong spirit.
In general, I had not seen such enthusiasm around the KHL playoffs and especially the final for a long time. Everywhere I went, everyone was talking about hockey: “How is CSKA doing there? What are the odds against Ak Bars? What do you think of the game?
Even people far from hockey have changed their plans, postponed important things to watch games on TV or enter the arena. It was a very big hockey party. I was very happy to see that as a soldier who came to the club at the age of six. And now I am a member of the Supervisory Board of CSKA. I am very happy to see that our team has moved the country so much. And I am proud to be associated with CSKA.
– Does CSKA look like the Detroit of the time when all America supported it? Wherever you go, there are fans in the stands in red jerseys with a winged wheel on their chests.
– I will say that I know a lot of Muscovites who support other clubs, but they also supported CSKA in the playoffs. I believe that CSKA is the strongest hockey brand in our country. And it comes from the Soviet Union, because CSKA is the most successful club, which has always been the base team of the USSR national team. Like in Canada, the Montreal Canadiens are considered the standard in history, so we have CSKA,” Bure told .
Source : MatchTV
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