A hockey player Yevgeny Artiukhin told that Dmitry Yashkin, Vladimir Tkachev, Anton Burdasov and Sergei Tolchinsky will be able to compete to be among the top three most productive players of the KHL season.
After five matches of the regular season of the Continental Hockey League, Yashkin from Ak Bars has 5 (3+2) points, Burdasov from Traktor has the same number, his teammate Tkachev scored 2 (1+1) points and Tolchinsky , who plays for SKA — 4 (1+3).
The first place in the race for KHL scorers is now shared by Vitaly Pinchuk and Alexander Radulov. Both have 8 points.
— Give a prediction of who can be among the top three scorers in the KHL at the end of the season?
— We can predict that Dmitry Yashkin will be there. First, he was the top scorer and sharpshooter last season. Secondly, in SKA he played with the right partners, and in Ak Bars he found himself in his top 3 with Shipachev and Kagarlitsky. In such a line you can score a lot of points.
I definitely see Vladimir Tkachev in the top 3, and he also has a good team in Avangard, where he plays with Reed Boucher and Ryan Spooner. I believe in Anton Burdasov and it will be easy for him to become one of the top three scorers. Much depends on his partners, and Traktor chose a good guy – Semyon Der-Arguchintsev, who recently scored a double. He will help Burdasov with this.
And here I would add Sergei Tolchinsky. He played brilliantly in the pre-season, already an experienced striker who won the Gagarin Cup with Avangard, becoming the most valuable player in the playoffs. Now that he is joining SKA, it is a new challenge for him. And everything is in the hands of Tolchinsky. Trust will be given to him, he will play and score points. Sergei is playing wonderfully and he immediately fits into the SKA lineup. “He didn’t need time to adapt,” Artyukhin told .
Evgeny Artyukhin began his career in 2000 in Vityaz, near Moscow, and last season he played for Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. Currently, 40-year-old Artyukhin is without a team, but has not announced his retirement.
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Source : MatchTV
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