Sibir General Director Viktor Merkulov spoke about the principles of forming the Novosibirsk club’s team for the new KHL season.
— This year, KHL clubs are not very willing to sign top-class players who are already over 30, but Siberia is not one of them.
– Listen, in principle, there are enough young people in the team. In our opinion, there were not enough experienced hockey players who make a difference. It is good, of course, to run around and shout on every street corner: “We are the youngest team, we have the largest number of students”, but, excuse me, our competitions are aimed at something else. Not at building a young team, but at achieving a result. It is clear that spring will show who was right and who was wrong.
In general, I can’t call them veterans. The oldest is Shirokov, he is already 38 years old, a respectable age, but the rest are 33-34. This is quite a normal age to play hockey. Moreover, given current medicine, there are no such restrictions that after 30 you have to finish. There is also a layer of young hockey players, so this does not worry us, “Merkulov said at the Championship.
The new KHL season starts on September 3.
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