In those chilly September days, it’s good to remember how in the summer, during Artemy Panarin’s charity game, we took the time to chat about all sorts of things with St. Louis forward Pavel Buchnevich.
And let’s say right away: let Pasha not be offended that all the media write only about Ovechkin and Panarin, as Buchnevich said in his heart. For us, Pavel Andreevich is also a star, and we adore him no less.
Rather, the new NHL season! We will write about Buchnevich like clockwork!
“No credit to Quinn that I started playing in the minority”
— Pavel, for the second year in a row you came to the charity match organized by Artemy Panarin…
— I am on good terms with Panara and the organizers. They do a great job and I immediately told them that I would come if possible. It’s great not only to play hockey with your friends, but also to help a guy in trouble.
– The difference is that last year you played for the New York Rangers with Panarin, then you were traded to St. Louis. What did you get from last season? We can see how you have matured, reached a new level.
– What is the new level? How I play is how I play. It’s just that I’m trusted more in St. Louis. Immediately they gave more often to come out in the majority, also began to play in the first brigade of the minority. It seems to me that I have justified this confidence. I think the Blues are happy with the exchange.
Are you grateful to former Rangers head coach David Quinn for taking so long to bring you up? There have been difficult times in your relationship.
– Yes, you all read some kind of nonsense. They write everything … Who raised? Who? It’s just that everyone has black and white stripes. Sometimes you play well and sometimes you play badly.
They put me on a bench and thought they were raising me? But there was no education. Just a working relationship. Of course, I’m grateful, because I actually played a lot.
– As a result, you became a two-way break, you began to come out in the minority.
“But it’s not Quinn’s fault. Another coach came from Pittsburgh – Martin, or whatever his last name was, he outvoted me. And so I wasn’t even planned and considered. It wasn’t Quinn who did it, it was the minority coach.
“When I want to talk to Panarin, I call Alice”
– How are you friends with Panarin, since now you play in different clubs? Do you have a general conversation?
– I call him. Or he’s calling with Alice. And so at first I did not understand at all how to contact him. He now has a push-button phone, no cat. I wrote to Alice, she kind of handed me the phone: “Now he’s going to call you back.” And he called. And it is heard or not heard. But I’m already used to it. I’m just trying to reach him on a regular phone.
Yes everything is fine. I just left for New York – we saw each other. They arrived in St. Louis – they also saw each other, sat down.
– This summer, we feared that Vladimir Tarasenko could be exchanged from the Blues for Matthew Tkachuk. How did you take it?
– Tarasenko in the contract has a complete ban on the exchange. How will it be exchanged? It is written everywhere that this cannot be done without the consent of the player.
– We heard that Volodya himself wanted to change the situation.
“And go to Calgary?” Would you go there? And like why make a complete ban on trading without the player’s consent, if you’re not using it? And why change? How many goals did the man score last season? 34 goals! Scored 82 points! So why give it away?
– I say that Tarasenko is great.
– That’s what it’s all about. It is enough to understand that people know that such an exchange could not take place. Until the player himself gives his consent.
– Igor Shesterkin received the Vezina Trophy. Are you happy for him? Is it difficult for him to score?
– Only played one game against him last season. He went one-on-one, hit somewhere on the skate … Igor had a good season. When I was with Rangers, he didn’t play like that. Happy for Shesterkin, congratulated him. I also have a good relationship with him, we communicate.
– In fact, it was Shesterkin who coached New York to the Eastern Conference Finals. He had a very good season, during which everything went as it should.
“How can the Hartley school help in the NHL?”
–Klim Kostin has received a new contract from St. Louis. Happy for him?
– So we saw each other at the Panarin charity match. Well, I don’t know…
What’s stopping him from playing in the NHL? He seems to be ready, he went through the Hartley school.
– And how is the Hartley school going to help Kostin in St. Louis?
– Everyone says that Hartley teaches the system, helps…
– Whose? Well, for example.
– Yegor Chinakhov said Hartley helped him a lot.
– And what, Chinakhov had a good season? How many is there ? Minus 30?
– Minus 27. But it has its own story – Columbus didn’t make the playoffs.
– So I tell my story. Hartley’s school in the NHL means nothing. There are other requirements, other speeds, that’s hard.
My opinion is that Kostin was unlucky that we had a lot of guys with average contracts in St. Louis. People have to play. The business model decides a lot here, and it is difficult for him to find a place in the team in the first three links. Well, Kostin has to play there.
“I wouldn’t upgrade to a push-button phone myself”
— For whom are you going to support the new season in the KHL? You played SKA…
“Of course, for Cherepovets. Severstal is my home team. It is clear that few of those I know remain. But when I play Fantasy KHL, I will take care of the guys from Cherepovets.
I’m not very much into the KHL. But I think Kazan will be strong. There Shipa (Vadim Shipachev), Chudin (Maxim Chudinov) are our Cherepovets guys.
— Do you play KHL fantasy? And how is the progress?
– I took second place last year. There were 14 participants in our league. But I didn’t take anyone from Cherepovets at the time. They didn’t score!
Well, at some point he took Vovchenko. And he doesn’t score! I say to him, “Well, why did I take you?” In general, I only take cheap players there who shoot. A few young people.
Last season, Rashevsky, Tertyshny shot from those. But they had all done it. How will you score then?
“Did you go on vacation to Cherepovets?”
– Oh, sure. I spent the whole summer there. We went fishing with friends, rode quads. They left for the forests with tents for three days.
I also went to the Super Cup (in July in St. Petersburg, when Zenit beat Spartak – 4:0). A boy from Cherepovets performed there, rooting for him.
– This is Zenit striker Ivan Sergeev.
– Yeah. I was sitting in the Spartak sector with his T-shirt.
– When you talk to NHL millionaires, you’re surprised how much they crave the Russian backcountry. That Panarin is attracted to the desert near Vologda, which you drill in the forests of Cherepovets. The NHL season exhausts you so much that you want to change?
“I think it’s more because the phone doesn’t work in those places. You sit around for three days, minding your own business. You have no news, nothing happening, no tension. You just sit down with the company, do something. Cook delicious food, drink. There’s punch, I like it. Mosquitoes would slap everyone – usually that would be awesome!
Everyone to his own tastes. Some people like to lie on beaches. But now it’s hard to go anywhere. And I chose to spend my holidays like that.
– Would you also switch to a touch-tone telephone, like Panarin?
“Well, no, it will be very difficult. Now, anyway, you can check in when there’s nothing to do. Does Panarin even have an iPad? No, I couldn’t use an push button – it’s hard to live without information.
Source : MatchTV
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