Forward “Colorado” Valery Nichushkin in an interview with , the club did not rule out the possibility of ending his career at Chelyabinsk Traktor.
Over the summer, 27-year-old Nichushkin signed a new contract with Colorado for eight years, earning more than $6 million a year. The Russian played with an ankle injury in the last game of the Stanley Cup series, in which his team won the trophy. avalanche won the Stanley Cup for the first time since 2001 in the 2021/22 season, beating Tampa Bay 4-2 in the series. Nichushkin scored 9 goals and made 6 assists in the playoffs NHL .
– When you are 35 and this contract comes to an end, would you like to come back to Traktor? Or stay in the NHL?
– I do not know. It’s hard to think ahead. We must finish these eight years, and there, as it will be, it will be so. In any case, I would like to end my career at home.
But it also has to end well. I don’t want to come and get pushed in the back, because I can’t go alone anymore. People’s last memory of you needs to be in a good way, and not as if Nichushkin came here to pour sand on the ice. Why is it necessary? I hope my health is good enough to play well at home for at least a year.
Nichushkin graduated from the Traktor hockey school. In the 2012/13 season, playing for the Chelyabinsk club, the striker scored 6 points (4+2) in 18 matches with a utility indicator of +6. In the KHL playoffs, Nichushkin scored 9 points (6+3) in 25 games with a utility indicator of +5.
Source : MatchTV

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