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 | Rotenberg about Marchenko and Kuzmenko: They should play not in Columbus and Vancouver, but in the first or second line of Boston, Colorado. This is their level19-06-2024 |
Roman Rotenberg shared his opinion about Kirill Marchenko and Andrey Kuzmenko.
- Why, we gave Kirill a lot of chances. Marchenko is a very strong hockey player. But last season a situation arose that he was taken to the Olympics. He was in the second group, that is, he did not play at all for several months.
Returned to SKA from Beijing. We tried to bring him into game tone. But it didn’t work out through the matches - you remember that because of the pandemic, the end of the regular season was canceled, and the playoffs started immediately. Kirill played in the Major League, trying to gain playing practice. But it’s hard when you haven’t performed for several months and find yourself without a normal training process. He fell out of his gaming tone.
But the same thing happened to our goalkeeper Sasha Samonov. He also ended up in the second group, without playing practice. Here Andrey Kuzmenko returned from Beijing before the start of the hockey tournament. He managed to work out with us and got into certain shape.
And we always believed in Marchenko. He`s a great power forward and we`ve always given him a lot of play. His start in the NHL now is the common merit of everyone who helped Kirill both in the SKA system and before us. We see how he has worked on himself, and we discussed this with him.
Kirill has improved his physics very well. You can see that it has become much more powerful. Well, somewhere something happened that we always talked about - he began to take over the game more, throw, climb on the dime. And we see what this leads to.
We see this in Andrey Kuzmenko. This is good, and it says that we are on the right path. Our players are developing. Yes, of course, we want these guys to play with us. And we believe that these guys should play on the best teams. Not in Columbus and Vancouver, which don`t make the playoffs. It`s a fact that the Blue Jackets are now the last team in the NHL. These guys should play in Boston, Colorado, and on the first or second line. This is their level. This is the goal they need to strive for, ” said the head coach of SKA.