Severstal forward Danil Aimurzine told us what the difference is between performances in the Western and Eastern conferences.
Last season, Aimurzin played for Salavat Yulaev.
— Compare the training process of Kozyrev and Kozlov? I wouldn’t say the training process is much different. Hockey is different, of course, but the training sessions at Salavat have also always been short and intense. Here is a different vision of hockey, and above all, there was the East, and here is the West.
After joining Severstal, he started playing more with Western teams and noticed a difference in approaches. In the West, everyone plays active hockey, while in the East the majority skates, which is why hockey itself is changing. I’m not saying that all Eastern clubs play bribery. There are also teams that play active hockey. Now Traktor has started doing this. But the other day I saw an interview with one of the hockey players, in which he talked about the Amur bribe…
Yes, Prokhorkin. Therefore, as you can see, there is a rollback. And in the West, few teams are starting to go backwards. Everyone tries to play actively and aggressively. I don’t know what this is related to. Maybe everything here comes from the Youth Hockey League. From my experience I can say that in the MHL I played with the West only in the playoffs against Dynamo Moscow, but I will say once again that in the East they play completely different hockey .
In Ufa we also had the right to improvise in attack, but there were systemic moments that were considered unacceptable. Here they are calm about this and can resolve them. As I said before, different coaching visions, different hockey. At the end of the season we will see, or rather even based on the results over several years, we will see which vision is more viable,” Aimurzin was quoted as saying by “Championship”.
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