Athletistic / Hockey. Norilsk forward Mikhail Anisin said that all KHL clubs should be like Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo and try to show spectacular and offensive hockey. The former Dynamo Moscow player criticized most of the league’s clubs for being too closed in their hockey.
“A lot of people say that in Russia people don’t go to hockey. But that’s not the point! The fact is that it’s not interesting to watch. A lot of people there play like robots .I talk to a lot of people and I often hear that they just turn hockey “off TV.” Of course, not everything fits into the same mold. There are also some good matches. It seems to me that we have to adapt to speed hockey and combined hockey. Let’s take the development vector of the Torpedo. You definitely have to look in that direction, because in thought, it’s something similar to the NHL.
We have to play. Especially at home. You play for the audience, for the people. People might want to see two or three more goals. This is exactly what you work for. This is what you live for. To bring joy to people. And it is especially the philosophy of the Nizhny Novgorod team that attracts me,” Anisin said, as quoted by the VHL press service.
Mikhail Anisin spent last season in Belarusian club Metallurg Zhlobin. In 20 matches of the regular championship of Belarus, he scored 17 (9+8) performance points with a utility indicator of “-6”. He achieved his greatest achievements in Dynamo Moscow.
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