Zaripov brought the Gagarin Cup to the village of Dum Dum. For the fifth time already! – News from KHL – Hockey

Danis Zaripov is the most successful player of the Russian club. For ten years of the existence of the KHL, he won the Gagarin Cup five times – in half the cases. First twice with "Ak Bars" (2009, 2010), then with "Magnitogorsk" (2014, 2016), and again this year with the club Kazan.

Zaripov once again wins the title of Russian Super League Champion – in 2006 As in the NHL, every member of the champion team has time in the KHL to win the cup (Gagarin or Stanley) at any location desired by the hockey player – most often, it's his home town. Thus, the main overseas league trophy Saturday will arrive in Moscow (thanks to Alexander Ovechkin), and a little later he will see Chelyabinsk and Novokuznetsk, where Evgeny Kuznetsov and Dmitry Orlov were born. And the Gagarin Cup has already visited this season abroad – Prague sent Jiri Sekach to Prague, and striker Anton Lander to Swedish Sundsvall

How did Zaripov use his choice? First, on July 2, he drove the Gagarin Cup to Naberezhnye Chelny, where his club production plant is located. First the trophy was exposed in the local ice palace, then a friendly match was played with the local HC club "Chelny" and the team, which was played by Zaripov himself, his brother Marat and his son Arthur. The latter was noted with a double

And the next day, July 3, the hockey player went with the Gagarin Cup to Tatar Dum-Dum. In this village, where Zaripov's parents live along his mother's line, he went on vacation as a schoolboy. And now every time Danis after the victory brings the Cup to this place. In Dum-Dum, who lives in the Yelabuga district of Tatarstan, lives with fewer than 300 people

DMITRY SOMOV