SKA St. Petersburg forward Evgeny Kuznetsov In an interview with , he said that he would gladly accept an invitation to the Russian national team if he was called up, but that he was not thinking about it yet.
Washington Capitals Stanley Cup winner Kuznetsov has signed a contract with SKA. The 32-year-old forward’s deal is for four years.
As a member of the Russian national team, Kuznetsov became a two-time world champion and also won bronze at the world championships twice. The striker last played for the national team in 2019.
– You can return to the Russian national team – maybe for the December tournament, maybe for the May series with the Belarusians… But for us it will be an event after your four-year suspension.
— I don’t know yet whether I’m ready to return to the national team. For me, it’s still a distant moment and a difficult question. When we arrived in St. Petersburg, we had to quickly find accommodation so that the children could go to school. In everyday life, everything has to be solved, and I focused only on that. And you ask about the national team. The SKA training camp starts in a few days, we have very little time. We are leaving for Novogorsk, we wouldn’t want to leave our family in a hotel.
“But I am an easy-going person. They will say ‘I must’ and I will go with pleasure,” Kuznetsov told .
Kuznetsov graduated from Chelyabinsk Traktor. For the team, he played 251 games in the KHL and scored 167 points (78 goals and 89 assists). He made his NHL debut in March 2014 and won the Stanley Cup with Washington in 2018. In March of this year, he was traded to Carolina. In total, in the regular NHL championships, Kuznetsov played 743 games and scored 575 points (173+402); in the playoffs, he scored 73 points (33+40) in 97 games.
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