Former KHL defenseman Nikita Shchitov commenting on information about the transfer of forwards Mikhail Grigorenko And Sergei Plotnikov V SKA said , that the St. Petersburg team needs players with extensive Gagarin Cup experience.
On Wednesday, reported that on May 1, SKA will sign contracts with Plotnikov and Grigorenko.
— Grigorenko and Plotnikov are good, experienced players. I think this is exactly what SKA needs. There is a young team in St. Petersburg. They simply need talented players with extensive cup experience. These help build a team and win titles. They influence young players in the locker room.
Plotnikov won the Gagarin Cup not only in CSKA, but also in SKA in 2017. In St. Petersburg they realized that they needed such guys. The last such experienced SKA player was Evgeniy Ketov.
— This season there was Artem Sergeev, who won the Cup at CSKA.
— He’s not a leader like Plotnikov. I’m not talking about the game so much as the behavior within the team. SKA needs leaders in the locker room. A sports team cannot be built without it,” Shchitov told .
Grigorenko and Plotnikov each won the Gagarin Cup three times.
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