Former defender CSKA Alexander Romanov who now plays in the NHL for the New York Islanders, told that the restructuring undertaken by the Moscow club would benefit him.
According to the results of the 2023/24 season of the Fonbet KHL Championship regular season, CSKA took sixth place in the Western Conference and lost to Lokomotiv in the first round of the playoffs (1-4). After the end of the season, head coach Sergei Fedorov left the team and Ilya Vorobyov took his place. In the current offseason, Mikhail Grigorenko, Ivan Fedotov, Darren Dietz, Anton Slepyshev, Sergei Plotnikov, Andrei Svetlakov and Yaroslav Dyblenko left CSKA.
— Do you follow CSKA?
– Yes.
— What can you say about their last season?
— It is difficult to win three Gagarin Cups in a row, it is almost impossible. The New York Islanders won four Stanley Cups in a row, but that was between the 1979-80 season and the 1982-83 season. In modern times, no one has won three Cups in a row. No matter how strong Tampa is, they have only won two Cups in a row and have not managed to win a third. There are failures and bad luck. It is even psychologically difficult to pull yourself together to win a third consecutive trophy. If you take a club that wins the Stanley Cup, then hockey players play 120 games a season, and in three years that is already 360 games. People who think it is easy to win three Cups in a row are crazy.
— CSKA has now entered perestroika, many team leaders have left the club.
— Any restructuring benefits the club — it’s 100%. In any team, whether it’s the KHL or the NHL, there is restructuring. Perestroika began in Tampa, and in Chicago, after their victories, it also began, “Romanov told .
Romanov played for CSKA from 2018 to 2020. The 24-year-old defender played 94 matches for the military club, during which he scored 11 points (1+10).
CSKA won the Gagarin Cup in 2019, 2022 and 2023.
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