Former Magnitogorsk defender “Metallurgy” And “Salavata Yulaeva” Evgeny Biryukov in a conversation with , he wished the Minsk striker “Dynamo” Vadim Shipachev break as many records as possible.
On Tuesday, Shipachev reached the 1,000 game mark in the KHL after stepping on the ice in a game against CSKA. Previously, only Biryukov managed to cross the 1,000 game mark in the KHL; he has 1,001 matches to his credit.
— I congratulate Vadim on this achievement, after which I will do it personally. I want to wish him good luck to play as long as possible. He’s a great master and a great guy. Our hockey needs such players, as they say.
— Aren’t you sorry that in just a few matches Vadim surpasses you in the number of matches in the KHL?
– Of course not. These records are there to be broken (laughs). The most important thing was to cross this threshold. “I am only happy for Vadim and I wish him to break as many records as possible,” Biryukov told .
Shipachev is a two-time winner of the Gagarin Cup (2015, 2017) as part of SKA. Also in the KHL he played for Severstal Cherepovets, Dynamo Moscow and Ak Bars Kazan. He has 924 (290+634) points in the championship, according to this indicator in the history of the KHL, he is second behind Sergei Mozyakin, who has 928 (419+509) points.
As a member of the Russian national team, the forward won gold at the 2016 World Championships and the 2018 Olympics, as well as bronze at the 2022 Olympics.
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