“Our badass said to me in Russian: “Hello, hippopotamus!” – Shesterkin spoke about the jokes in the “Rangers”

GoalkeeperRangers » Igor Shesterkin Recognized as the best goaltender of the season in the NHL regular season, in an interview with , he spoke about intra-squad draws.

Rangers badass Ryan Reeves, did he teach you how to fight?

– Once, for fun, I caught it surreptitiously … And in a second I was on the ice. Reeves speaks a little Russian. He said to me, “Hello, hippopotamus!”

It turns out that Volodya Tarasenko taught him. They had a very funny situation. I won’t tell the whole story. But Volodya taught Reeves how to pronounce different animals in Russian, and Ryan taught him all sorts of useful English words. And now Reeves knows “behemoth”, “shark”, and especially he likes “turtle” in Russian.

Who’s the chief DJ in the Rangers locker room?

“To be honest, I don’t know. Naturally, we have Mika Zibanejad. He himself is a DJ, he has performed in Sweden at some concerts. And in the team we put Jacob Truba, Frank Vatrano. The Rangers locker room plays the same songs. Or at least it seems to me, I don’t pay attention to the surrounding music. And last season, Bucha took the remote control in his hands a few times to put on his songs. Everyone was delighted.

– If Artemy Panarin has a push-button phone, how does he sit in the team chat?

– He’s not in the team chat. But to know the schedule, Artemy uses an iPad. There, the Rangers have a special application. Or just guys, you can find out what we have next.

Shesterkin, 26, became the third Russian goalie to win the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s top goaltender. Previously it was directed by Sergey Bobrovsky (2013, 2017) and Andrey Vasilevsky (2019).

Source : MatchTV

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