We present a summary of the main news from the world of hockey for July 24, 2023.
Sergey Samsonov left the coaching position at Carolina
Carolina Hurricanes forward development coach Sergei Samsonov has left the club.
“I won’t be in Carolina next season. I will soon decide what I will do in the near future, ”Samsonov was quoted as saying by TASS.
Samsonov’s contract with the club expired on June 30. The 44-year-old specialist has been working at Carolina since 2015, first scouting and then developing the club’s system players.
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Sergey Samsonov is the champion of Russia as part of the Moscow Dynamo of the 2004/2005 season, the owner of the Calder Trophy as the best NHL rookie of the 1997/1998 season as part of the Boston Bruins club, a participant in the 2001 NHL All-Star Game, the bronze medalist of the 2002 Olympic Games. He was selected by Boston in the first round of the Draft NHL entry player in 1997 and played for the club from 1997 to 2006.
Metallurg signed a contract with goalkeeper Alexander Sudnitsin
Metallurg signed a contract with goalkeeper Alexander Sudnitsin, the club’s press service reports. The contract with the 35-year-old goalkeeper is for one year.
Alexander Sudnitsin graduated from the Krasnoyarsk hockey school. Last season, the goalkeeper defended the colors of Neftekhimik. Alexander played 23 games in which he earned 10 wins with a save percentage of 90.7% and a safety factor of 2.75. In the Gagarin Cup, the 35-year-old goalkeeper played three matches, scoring one victory. Sudnitsin in the 2016/2017 season became a bronze medalist of the Continental Hockey League as part of Lokomotiv.
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Metallurg has become a middle class club. You can forget about the Gagarin Cup for years to come
In the 2023 Gagarin Cup, Metallurg defeated Avtomobilist in the first round (4-3). In the next round, Magnitogorsk lost to Avangard (0-4).
Knight’s agent responded to rumors about the player wanting to leave Avangard
Alyosha Pilko, agent of Canadian Avangard striker Korban Knight, commented on rumors in the media about the player’s alleged desire to leave the Omsk club for family reasons.
“The information is truly staggering, but, as always, my position is clear. There is a regulation, and our company and the players respect it as much as possible,” Pilko said in an interview with the “Championship” correspondent Pavel Panyshev.
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Last season, Knight played 58 games in the regular season and scored 34 (15 goals + 19) points. In the 2023 playoffs he has 10 (5 + 5) points in 14 games.
Earlier, Avangard’s head coach Mikhail Kravets said that the club was waiting for Korban Knight in Sochi in preparation for the pre-season tournament, which will take place from August 3-8, 2023.
Avangard’s general manager Anton Kuryanov commented on the rumors about Korban Knight’s desire to leave the club for family reasons.
“The team is now preparing for the season according to the approved schedule, according to which Korban Knight, together with Reed Bush, should join Avangard at the Sochi tournament on August 3. We have not had any changes in these plans at the moment, ”Kuryanov said in an interview with Lev Lukin, a journalist for the Championship.
Evgeni Malkin thinks Patrick Kane’s career is better than his
Russian forward “Pittsburgh Penguins” Evgeni Malkin believes that the career of American forward Patrick Kane is better than his.
The entire hockey culture on social networks asked the question: “Which career is better: Evgeni Malkin or Patrick Kane?” The Russian striker left his comment there, writing only the number 88, the number with which Kane plays.
Malkin has been with Pittsburgh since 2006. Gino is a three-time Stanley Cup winner (2009, 2016, 2017). Last season, the Russian striker participated in 82 games, in which he scored 83 (27 + 56) points. In terms of team performance, Malkin lost only to Sidney Crosby (93 points).
Kane is a three-time Stanley Cup winner (2010, 2013, 2015) with the Chicago Blackhawks and a 2010 Olympic silver medalist with Team USA. Patrick became the first US native to win the Hart Trophy and the first American to become the NHL’s leading regular-season scorer and win the Art Ross Trophy (106 points in 2015 season). /2016). Kane ranks third among all current NHL players in points scored in his career (behind Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin).
Alex Galchenyuk began cooperating with Russian KHL agents
American striker with Belarusian roots Alex Galchenyuk became a client of the Russian agency Winners.
“The Winners team has an important announcement! Dear (or not) pseudo-agents, stop hanging up the club phones, save your energy for someone else! Alex Galchenyuk is now represented by the Winners agency. Welcome to the team,” the agency’s official Telegram channel said.
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Please note that the most famous agents of Winners are Yuri Nikolaev and Alexander Chernykh. Among the agency’s clients are Ak Bars forward Alexander Radulov, Avtomobilist forward Stefan Da Costa, SKA hockey player Marat Khusnutdinov, Metallurg captain Yegor Yakovlev, Danis Zaripov, Ilya Kovalchuk, as well as Dynamo Moscow newcomers Nikita Gusev and Igor Ozhiganov.
Remember that on July 9, Galchenyuk was arrested. He faced a series of charges: assault on private property, disorderly conduct, disobedience, resisting arrest, threats and accident. The hockey player was sent to prison and later released on bail. The Arizona Coyotes, who signed Galchenyuk in early July, opted out of the player’s contract on July 14.
Earlier it became known that Salavat Yulaev was interested in Galchenyuk.
