general manager “Avant-garde” Anton Kuryanov, in an interview with , said that during the season, forward Reed Boucher had problems with his sticks and played in the equipment of defender Semyon Chistyakov.
Boucher scored 78 points (44+34) in 64 regular season games and became the best sniper in the championship. In 12 playoff matches, the 30-year-old American forward scored 11 (9+2) points.
— Tell us about Reed Bush, the best sniper in our league, who could break Mozyakin’s record.
— Boucher is a unique legionnaire, of course. I rented a car and am driving around Omsk leisurely. We ask him: “How do you navigate? » “Yes, I just turned on the browser and left. And if I got lost, I got up and asked people, they helped me.
Reed has had issues with his sticks this season. Due to deliveries, his clubs didn’t arrive until January. And those he played with have already left. And there was a period in November when Bush simply had nothing left to play with. Then Reed went to the hallway where the team’s hockey sticks are and started looking at them. I took Chistyakov’s putter: “Oh, the turn fits more or less. Only, it’s harder for me. He was given stiffer Chistyakov sticks and Boucher scored goals with them for a month and a half.
We give this story as an example to the guys at our academy when they start telling us that the curvature or stiffness of the stick is wrong. And then the man took someone else’s stick, wrapped it and scored goals. He doesn’t get caught up in little things he can’t control.
Boucher is a star hockey player through his game. But in everyday life, he is a very simple and accessible person. He rents a regular apartment through a real estate agent. If you don’t look at his passport, he’s like a simple Russian player who came to play in Omsk.
— Is Boucher one of the top 5 Avangard players you’ve ever seen?
— I wouldn’t compare everyone, because the generations are different. And Omsk has always had many star players. But Boucher is among the top 5 foreign players, along with Jaromir Jagr,” Kuryanov told .
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