Plyushchev emphasized: “Some positive phenomena are possible when promising young players appear and there are development centers. However, the national hockey system still does not work at the appropriate level, as I have repeatedly said .”
Regarding Kovalchuk’s return, Pluschev noted: “The case of Ilya Kovalchuk is telling – a 40-year-old player returned after two seasons of inactivity and scored in the first two matches. This is an answer to many artificial expressions of enthusiasm about the level of “
- Kozhevnikov shamed journalists who “enjoyed” Kovalchuk’s mistake in the first match for Spartak
Source: Sport
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