A hockey player “Torpedo » Vasily Atanasov told that the Nizhny Novgorod team was better prepared for the Gagarin Cup than last season.
Atanasov last appeared on the ice in early January; the hockey player missed 19 Torpedo matches due to injury. On Tuesday, the 21-year-old striker is expected to take part in the match against Spartak Moscow.
— After your injury, Torpedo started losing more often. Do you connect it directly?
— There was a slight drop. The main thing is that this doesn’t carry over into the playoffs. Starting today, we need to get back to playing the game we know how to play and start a winning streak.
— From the game “Spartak” – “Torpedo” they always expect offensive hockey. How will the match be?
— A very nice game awaits us, many chances. We will try to score more than our opponents.
— Is “Torpedo” similar to last year’s team, when it reached the second round of the playoffs?
— I think we are improving every day, every practice. We try to improve, we don’t stand still. I think we are even better prepared than last year.
— Who is the most valuable player this KHL regular season?
— Nikita Gusev. For what? I think so. As they say, I’m an artist, that’s how I see it.
— Have you sewn a pineapple appliqué onto the palm of a hockey glove?
– Yes, for good luck.
— Are you going to create some kind of pineapple brand?
– Not yet. But we will see what happens next,” Atanasov told .
Last season, Torpedo beat Dynamo Moscow in the first round of the Gagarin Cup; in the second round, Igor Larionov’s team lost to SKA Saint Petersburg.
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