Novosibirsk attacker “Siberia” Georgiy Belousov named former teammate Pavel Datsyuk “a man from another planet”, noting his performance.
Belousov and Datsyuk played together for Yekaterinburg “Motorist” .
— You managed to play with Datsyuk. How did playing on the same team and communicating with him influence you?
“The team couldn’t even dream of this.” Then they put us on the same line, we started playing with him, and good too. Playing with Datsyuk was my dream since childhood and it came true. I really liked hockey. He’s a man from another planet. The hockey IQ level is very high, he sees the game differently.
—Was it difficult to understand him on the ice?
– No, it was easy to play with him. I understood what he would do in a given situation. He’s not a person who wants to play with the puck all the time. He knows how to create space, pass the ball and shoot: a versatile player, in a word. The other level is simply space. And the way he worked at 40 was incredible to me. Without training he could play the same, but he worked hard on the ice and in the gym.
— How is Datsyuk as a person?
– Generally simple. That’s what they gave him and that’s what he’s wearing. It’s easy to communicate with him. When he had already finished his career and we somehow met, I felt like I had known him for 10 years.
“And he has a special sense of humor.”
– Yes, he likes to make fun of himself. He said: “Here I will sprinkle sand. “He could have set the team on fire,” quotes RB Sport Belousov.
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