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– How's your finger?

– As long as it hurts. After a fracture, two weeks have elapsed, there are only seven days left before the removal of the lazette. Something start to do. I go out on the ice with a stick to understand what my hand feels. While squeezing the injured fist.

– Do you have a weekend now?

– Yes, what a weekend there! I work so that I can hardly go home. In principle, I could now go for a walk New York. So probably to somebody it seems.

– Go on sale.

– In fact, I have little to New York seen and there are places to go. But the training has become such that I prefer to go home and rest. I have an exercise for the press, cycling for at least 35 minutes a day. It seems like I've is about to a kind Olympiad. Ice is also the same thing.

– I know that in some clubs NHL Injured players live separately from the team. Do not meet at all.

– We do not have that. The only thing I go out on the ice before the main structure. Then they are on the ice – I'm in the room. But such as they never met, no. I have to go to games. After the game, you go to the locker room, you meet the ice team, you beat the pyatuk.

– It's unfortunate that you suffered damage when everything was fine for the coach.

– Not what has improved. We have not been degraded. But I started to play a lot more, to gain points. I've always had moments. But our team was losing, we were mixing training, hence my problems. I had a hand some the moment.

– Are you really as sweet as the coach says?

– Yes, he did not say so little. It takes a fight, a fight on the part of a player weighing 100 kilos, which is completely different when such a complexion is to me. I'm just playing hockey.

– No But the coach has rightly asked for certain things. For example, lest I throw out my player, do not leave with him until the end.

– We something have just heard the definition of sweetness. But I saw you hard and rude, as in CHLand last season in the NHL. Watching it is fun, but overall, there is no benefit.

– Yes, no one on my part does not need a fight. Every hockey player on our team has to do certain things. It can not be such that someone & # 39; a attacked that and did not help the defense. These are normal requirements, I understand and share them.

– that is to say Something is the coach right?

– Of course, agree. I did not discuss it. It was time to think, it was time to think. And then we also had an individual communication with him. For his part, there is no hostility towards me, he wants me to play properly.

– There is no longer any special interest in watching the NHL board now, but your team is in the zone. playoffs at least all the time near the number eight. And if you listen to the coach, read the reporters, everything goes wrong.

– When the coach cursed, when he sent me to the reserve, we were at the bottom of the rankings. We have already made good progress. And then everything was really bad. Then everything improved, we won four games in a row, but I broke a finger.

– We are sitting here recently with Zucarello. He says, will you be healed and where do you put it later? Something in a team to fly forward, there is no place.

– I all the same I hope that I will play. They remember how I played before the injury. Of course, it will not be easy to return immediately to the previous level, but it will take time, but we should not push it. I hope

– you One day sitting two games in stock at the coach's decision?

– That was not it. The story is fun because I had to play in the second game. In the morning, I was in the queue and already before throwing it, they put me in the reserve. But I still went on the ice to warm me up. A strange state, of course. You feel like a monster.

– How's it going – watching the match from the podium?

– Sometimes you think, then I'll play now, I'll do it c & # 39; and it and you do not go there. But it goes quickly. With forums we are all Gretzky.

– It was a pity because of what was put in stock?

– In the first few seasons, hockey players are tested for their durability. I decided to try it now. I hope that I pbaded the test.

– Did you talk with the coach? Without translator?

– I have normal English, although the barrier exists. But what is the barrier? I do not hesitate to say anything and say as I say. Yes, the sentences are wrong Mika Zibanejad says how come Stewards, so my English has deteriorated, as if I was collecting a puzzle. But everyone understands me, as well as the coach. I even asked him a few times. He nods, says everything is clear. Especially interested during the lunch, which we went to the season.

– And during the difficult period of individual meetings was not?

– No, but at the meeting, they explained to me what I had not done.

– Do you agree with that?

– For certain points – yes. They showed me a video and I realized that I was not doing it the best way. A couple of times I did not hit an opponent, a few moments created because of that I did not go to contact.

– This is not a conflict?

– No, it's not a conflict. The coach says, I try to perform. Sometimes I can not, but it's impossible to play 82 games at the same level. It is important to make sure that matches are at the same level on average, without falling below a certain limit. J & # 39; s attempt

– Tell us about the rumors. You wait in team Artemia Panarin?

– It does not have its place in the locker room, but for such a player we will quickly find a locker. I just heard that "Rangers" for him one of the options but, like, some the news will only appear in the summer. I think our club would not have refused such a hockey player.

– Would you be able to play in a link with Artemy?

– why not He also plays hockey for me. Some the time will be spent running in but very short. It's … Listen, it would be difficult for me to play hockey, which CSKA has been showing for two years. But Panarin does not adhere to this style.

– You have the last year of the contract. And then?

– As far as I know, there can not be any negotiation at all. I do not know anything about my future, apparently this question will be asked later.

– Do you want to go back to the KHL?

– You immediately asked the question … My primary goal is the Rangers, the NHL. But when we even start discussing it as a joke, you will immediately have many questions that I will not answer. So let's talk about my future, when will be the occasion.

– The last year of the contract – The temptation to show you in all its splendor.

– Oh, I slipped that. I was thinking of scoring points and working on my own statistics so that they look at it in the spring. But they have hinted that if I play like that, I will not be able to count on Something serious. Immediately arrested.

– How are you goalkeeper Alexander Georgiev?

– Why are you asking for him? You follow Russian players.

– He is the winner of the junior world championship of Valery Bragin's team.

– And on which pbadport is flying? In Bulgarian. He is Bulgarian. But seriously, it reminds me of Ilya Sorokin's character. If the team has a more sociable Igor Shesterkin, then Ilyukha is a little more closed, immersed in himself. Georgiev himself. He sometimes organizes wacky matches, but he has games such as "Caroline" when he did not help. There is no stability, but he is still young. The potential is huge.

– By the way, about the national team. I did not understand why you were called.

– They waited for him to get back and come to the team Nikita Gusev. Upon arriving in Copenhagen, I immediately became superfluous for the first link. And they put me where it's going. But the goal is to put myself in the power link? I am somehow I went on the ice with Sergey Andronov, but it's absolutely not my hockey.

– Do you want to come to the national team if they call?

– There is an important nuance. I do not have a contract with the club yet and I do not think the Rangers will let me go to the World Cup if we do not sign that deal at that time.

– you live in New York, but always returning to Cherepovets in the summer. I do not understand this.

– And I do not see anything wrong in my hometown. This is my homeland. Yes, we have a lot of flaws. Ecology, for KHL clubs the most disgusting hotel in the entire league. But I treat everything differently. For me, it's my land. There are relatives, friends there. I can not imagine that I'm spending holidays in New York.

– But it's the capital of the world. He will not know anyone. There everything dissolves.

– Oh, by the way somehow once discovered.

– Come. There Belmondo nobody recognized.

– And they recognized me. We went with Yevgeny Dadonov and Bogdan Kiselevich, short some local and for me. I discovered it. Kiselevich was teasing me later.

– But I understand that after the end of your career you will not stay in America?

– Maybe I will lose another fifteen years and forget the Russian. But on the sensations, that can not be. I will be back home.

– Too bad we will not see you in Severstal.

– Will she even stay in the KHL?

– Now I doubt it.

– I am very pleased that General Manager Alexei Koznev has been removed from the club. Immediately happy. See what composition he has prepared for the season. It's a nightmare. The three strangers are usually weak. Took Carter. Yes, I remember that Carter on the "Torpedo", a robocop of the fourth link. And in Severstal he is one of the first three. Well, it does not matter. How to win with such a top three? The coach pulled he what should one do with it? Very sad for the club.