Head coach of SKA Romain Rotenberg congratulated the attacker Vadim Shipachev with the thousandth game of his career in the KHL and talked about how the forward, instead of SKA, could at some point end up in CSKA .
Tuesday SKA defeated Neftekhimik at home (3:2 OT), in a parallel match Dynamo Minsk turned out to be stronger than CSKA (5:4 OT). Minsk striker Shipachev, who played his 1000th match in the league, scored 3 (1+2) points.
— Vadim Shipachev played in these hours in Minsk his thousandth game of his KHL career…
—Are you an agent of Vadim Shipachev?
– Yes of course. Additionally, he played 305 matches for SKA. Maybe you could congratulate him?
— We are very grateful to fate that Vadim played for SKA. Because he once signed a document to transfer to CSKA. But then our general director was Alexey Kasatonov, and we discussed this issue with him. By the way, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Alexei Viktorovich on his birthday. After all, he is a graduate of Leningrad hockey, our legend of SKA and the USSR national team, the favorite player of Viktor Tikhonov, a great defender. Using his example, we can move forward. We wish him health, good luck and success. I know he plays on the ice very often. Almost every day he goes on the ice, scores goals, plays for the legends of the USSR and contributes to the development of hockey as the head of the Night Hockey League. We are still in touch and I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Kasatonov. He taught me a lot and explained to me how everything worked for Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov, what the processes were. I really appreciate it, it helps me working at SKA now.
Well, and Vadim Shipachev – when he came to SKA, the club had no big victories, no Gagarin Cup. But it was largely thanks to his personal contribution that we were able to win, winning two Gagarin Cups and the Olympic Games together. I would like to congratulate Vadim Shipachev on this milestone – 1000 matches. I am sure he will be able to score the most points in the history of Russian hockey. And he can play a thousand more matches. I wish him health, success and victories. I know that today he scored points in the victorious match against CSKA. This suggests that Vadim still has everything ahead of him. When we were in Minsk, I spoke to him. He very soberly and objectively assesses the teams and the situation. A very intelligent player. Yes, there were different times when he went to Las Vegas. But now Shipachev feels calm and confident and will delight our fans for many more seasons,” Rotenberg was quoted as saying by correspondent.
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