hockey specialist Leonid Weisfeld in an interview with expressed confidence that the striker Alexander Popov is not yet ready to take on a coaching role and wants to continue playing.
Popov played for CSKA last season, scoring 10 (4+6) points in 22 regular season games and 9 (5+4) points in 19 playoff games. The striker has been recognized as the most valuable player in the winning Gagarin Cup final for the 2021/22 season for his team.
In the decisive seventh game of the final series with Metallurg Magnitogorsk (4: 1), the hockey player played with a ruptured knee ligament. On August 31, Alexandre will be 42 years old.
– With Popov, the situation is quite obvious – it all depends on whether he recovered from the injury he suffered in the spring at the Gagarin Cup, – believes Weisfeld. “The question is only in medicine, nothing else.
Does the player’s age bother you?
– If Popov ran faster last year than CSKA’s young forwards, why would he have fallen behind? I don’t mind the age, only the state of his health after the injury.
– Does he want to continue playing? CSKA already offers Popov a coaching position.
– Alexander himself surely wants to play, otherwise he would have announced his retirement a long time ago. I guess he’s training on his own right now. Older players know their bodies very well, they know how to prepare. In this regard, I would not worry about Popov.
The new KHL season kicks off on September 1 with a match between last Gagarin Cup finalists CSKA and Metallurg Magnitogorsk.
Source : MatchTV
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