“Fetisov says he liked Kucherov immediately, but why didn’t Nikita play at CSKA?” — Kurdish

First Player CoachTampa » Nikita Kucherov Gennady Kurdin, in an interview with , said that the hockey player was not useful at one time CSKA and “Dynamo “.

– No one needed Kucherov at CSKA. Nobody really spoke to him. The doctor told the coach or manager that Kucherov was actually healthy and was faking it. He has no injury. After all, he did not even study at the CSKA hockey school. And in the “Polar Bears”, then he immediately went to the army youth team. And when I released them, I took three of my guys to the Dynamo base. There was Gus (Nikita Gusev), Kucherov and Zhiga (Igor Ozhiganov).

There, coach Tolya Antipov looked and said, “Yes, I have mine in hell.” And they were not taken to Dynamo Moscow. Then I agreed with CSKA: look at the juniors. They were taken only because there was no need to pay for the rights. Caught in the heap, so to speak. Then they went through a training camp in July-August, and they were left at CSKA without any guarantees.

Everyone said to me, “Gen, yes, they are small. How will they play? It was only when the Red Army won the Kharlamov Cup with them in 2011 that the same Sergey Gimaev began to say: “Yes, these are straight animals. Mastery! They play very hard.” But in the beginning nobody needed the guys. For the first six months they played very little, that’s why they were offended. I reassured them: “Come on, don’t get mad Your time will come, you will never leave the ice.

It is now Vyacheslav Fetisov says about Kucherov that he immediately liked him, gave him a championship ring for winning the MHL. But why, then, has Nikita never played at CSKA? It is now in words many helps. And at that time, there was nothing. Even after winning the Kharlamov Cup, no one was needed at CSKA. Nobody bet on my guys. So they left the army one by one. No one was helpful.

Kucherov, 29, won the Stanley Cup twice with the Tampa Bay.