Ak Bars Forward Egor Korchkov expressed the opinion that his former club is Khabarovsk “Love” can seriously count on winning the Gagarin Cup.
“Amur” reached the playoffs last season from the eighth place in the Eastern Conference standings. In the first round, the Khabarovsk team lost to the eventual champion Magnitogorsk Metallurg with a score of 2:4 in the series.
— “Love” last season became almost the main obstacle on the way to the championship for Magnitogorsk.
— A good team was formed, a good team in the locker room. Everyone is for each other. Therefore, in the end, we pulled and jumped into the playoffs. This end of the regular season gave me confidence. So everything was close. Somewhere, perhaps, the implementation failed. The first match, however, was not played very well, but in the rest they were no worse than Magnitogorsk, both in terms of moments and play.
— Since you were about to beat the future champion, wouldn’t the jokes about the Amur championship in 2026 be at all funny for the rivals from Khabarovsk?
— In “Amur” and in the new season there will be a good composition, a good financial situation, conditions – at the level of the top teams. A few years ago, strong players did not particularly strive to go there: firstly, it was far away, and secondly, few people knew what was happening at the club. And now the guys played, saying only positive things to their friends and acquaintances. I certainly would not call the talk about the possible championship of “Amur” some kind of joke, “Korshkov told the Championship.
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