SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg told that the hockey club should try to win the competition for spectators in St. Petersburg, which is considered the cultural capital where many public events take place.
SKA plays at the Ice Palace, which can accommodate 12,300 spectators. Last season, the St. Petersburg club, also playing at the SKA Arena (22,500), became the best in the KHL in terms of attendance.
— Several days have passed since Yevgeny Kuznetsov was presented with great pomp in St. Petersburg. Have you already calculated the impact of this event?
— Our task is to popularize hockey as much as possible. To develop our game so that our children watch Evgeniy while he plays. They don’t need to watch some NHL games in the evening. They can safely watch KHL games. Especially when the SKA hockey club plays and broadcasts it.
It’s important to understand here: we did this so that there would be more fans and everything would grow. We sold out the event, and that was our goal.
— It is interesting that there was no full house at the SKA-Sochi match at the Puchkov tournament.
— Because the day before Kuznetsov’s performance. People sat in the Ice Palace for four hours, watched the entire children’s master class, saw Evgeniy’s performance and listened to “Ivanushek International”. Therefore, the next day, not everyone, even those who bought tickets, came to the hockey match.
But it was Friday, on the eve of the big football match “Zenit” – “Spartak”, we are competing with other sports, as well as with the same theater. St. Petersburg is the cultural capital. And hockey must win the competition for the spectators. “I would like to take this opportunity to invite spectators to our matches via ,” Rotenberg told .
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