Defender “Spartak » Dmitri Vishnevsky on said the team’s decline in December 2023 was not associated with the striker’s arrival Ilya Kovalchuk.
Kovalchuk, 40, signed a contract with Spartak in early December 2023. He returned to the ice after a two-year career break. As part of the “red and white”, Kovalchuk played 25 matches in the regular season and playoffs, in which he scored 8 points (4 goals + 4 assists).
– Of course, the attitude towards everything that happens inside is changing, such a colossus has come to our team. But this is a normal process when such a person appears.
—Didn’t that slow the team down for a while? Like Kovalchuk himself.
“There will always be someone who writes something like that.” But there was no connection. If we look at it, we played well, but in some places we were unlucky, there was a lack of players, that’s why there was a decline,” Vishnevsky said in the show “Loud!” on .
Spartak beat Severstal (4-1) in the first round of the KHL playoffs then lost to Metallurg (2-4).
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