Head coach SKA Romain Rotenberg told that the 200th game of his KHL career can be compared to a birthday party.
On Monday, Rotenberg will play his 200th career KHL game as head coach. SKA under his leadership will play away against “Locomotive ” (7:30 p.m. Moscow time).
— This game against Lokomotiv will be your 200th in the KHL. What do you think of your statistics?
– This is an important step. The same feeling of joy when your birthday comes. Or even a birthday.
A lot of work has been done. Here, after all, the matches I played as head coach count. But I have been working for SKA since the 2014/15 season and counting the number of additional matches. That’s a few hundred more games as general manager and vice president.
These are serious numbers that speak volumes about the training, experience and education that being a head coach requires. To prepare for this position, you must be highly qualified. It’s a long road.
Well, 200 games are important interim results. We must appreciate it. Every game, every practice, every day of hockey is happiness. Today we have an away match with Lokomotiv. And it is a joy that we have the opportunity to work in hockey. Work as a team with talented players and progress together. I respect and appreciate that very much. 200 games is like celebrating a birthday with your best friends.
A friendly, charged and united team that always seeks to win is the best thing in a coach’s life. And together we try to make people happy.
The best place to celebrate this anniversary is only St. Petersburg. But today Yaroslavl will be complete, I have no doubt. It is a city of high hockey culture. There are excellent arenas, ice and air. An exemplary place for the KHL. The matches here are played at a very high level. “I am grateful to fate that I can celebrate such a date within the framework of a major hockey festival,” Rotenberg told the correspondent.
Rotenberg ranks fourth in SKA history in terms of the number of career matches (199). Only Valery Shilov (236), Nikolay Puchkov (507) and Boris Mikhailov (630) are in the lead. In terms of number of victories, Rotenberg is in third place (133), ahead of Puchkov (193) and Mikhailov (238).
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