Before “Metallurgist » Maxim Karpov on answered the question whether “AK bars » Gagarin Cup favorite in the Eastern Conference.
Karpov has been playing for Metallurg since 2020 and this season he is one of the team’s assistant captains.
— Many people say that this season in the East there are Ak Bars and everyone else? What do you think about it?
— Every year, it is said that a team has recruited a squad, it is definitely aiming for the Cup [Гагарина]. So they can’t do something, it doesn’t work for them. We’re already used to it (laughs).
— Do you have the feeling that hockey is evolving, or are these isolated episodes?
— I don’t think it changes, even if every year they say it changes. Maybe he goes faster. But otherwise, everything was as before. I won’t say that when I started, the guys there weren’t very technical. They were very serious, with their hands, with their heads. Hockey doesn’t change much,” Karpov said on .
Last season, Ak Bars reached the final of the Gagarin Cup, where they lost to CSKA in the series with a score of 3-4.
This season, after five matches, Metallurg is leader in the East (9 points), Ak Bars is second (8).
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