Head Coach of Ak Bars Anvar Gatiyatulin talked about the meeting with Sergey Fedorov in Detroit in the 1990s.
— Judging by the fact that you haven’t even spent a season in America, something didn’t go as planned?
— As I said, it turned out that we cannot play in the CHL. We went to the American AAA League, to the Detroit Little Caesars. Our condition was that we live in the same American family. “Yes, yes,” they say. – “That’s how it will be.” We arrive, are taken to lunch, and two families are already waiting for us. One is mine, the other is Ilya’s (Lapshin).
— “Detroit” of those years was entirely made up of legends…
“The coach constantly told us: “Now I will introduce you to Fedorov.” Once I was a little late, and Ilyukha (Lapshin) was already in the locker room. The coach invited him to meet. They come and the coach says: “Here, Sergei, a guy from Russia.” But no acquaintance was made. We just said hello. With him and Vladimir Konstantinov. Everything is clear, they were already stars, and we are just youngsters from the youth team.
— In Russia, many years later, do you remember those moments with Sergei Viktorovich?
– So we don’t communicate closely. “Hello, hello,” Gatiyatulin told the Championship.
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