Former St. Louis and Toronto hockey player, and now commentator, Alexander Khavanov said that the forward “Spartak » Ilya Kovalchuk has always had a great influence on the locker room of the teams in which he played.
Kovalchuk, 40, signed a contract with Spartak until April 30, 2024. The last time the forward played in the KHL was at the end of April 2021, when he won the Gagarin Cup as part of the Omsk Avangard. He also played in Russia for Ak Bars Kazan, Khimik near Moscow and SKA Saint Petersburg, with whom he twice won the Gagarin Cup.
— It is clear that the coaching staff sets the goals, but inside the locker room there must be a person who remains focused and focused on the main task. In this regard, throughout his career, Kovalchuk has shown that it is in the locker room he is in that he is a leader. “He can influence the way hockey players who are in the same dressing room with him play,” Khavanov said on the air of the program “Everyone for the match!”. on the channel.
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