so thank you for coming thank you for
having St Petersburg to
Russia really appreciate it it's think
great opportunity to exchange
experience and discuss how we can
develop Hy together it's a pleasure that
you come here and we we really are we
are happy that you're coming here we
have a lot of respect for Canada for
Montreal and for the culture of hockey
well we appreciate your hospitality and
we're we're happy to be here
despite the
travel nice to be back here after 20
years so I'm we're all yeah like I said
we're all all very happy when you left
uh which year was this um 200 well it
was a 2004 2005 season 2004 five season
yeah yeah yeah you haven't been back
since I haven't oh yeah came to Moscow
in summer we came that that summer the
summer of 2005 oh you came back to
Moscow yeah we wanted to see it in the
summer everything changed everything
changed uh everything is developing
especially our kids are developing uh
the youth system is developing our
hockey changing uh as you see now we are
in a very nice car Arena the rest of the
infrastructure that we're doing with
like we trying to develop hockey in a
way that uh everyone is happy parents
are happy kids are happy and players are
happy so we can develop this as a as a
product so we have more fans because we
want uh isuki to be number one sports in
Russia yeah we can definitely see the
difference uh I mean i' we only been
here a couple days but uh the difference
in the country and then the uh the
excitement came to the game last night
is uh amazing to see uh I feel like 20
years ago it wasn't uh wasn't the same
so it's uh very exciting for sure yeah
we did a lot of work to change
everything a lot of work uh
to uh make the step forward we started
from uh just developing the fan base uh
doing the right things uh so that the
people feel happy when they come to the
to the rink uh to the arena yeah a lot
of things changing still we have to do
many things um but uh I think uh
together together uh we can U develop
hockey to together but when you doing it
by yourself it's uh not uh the best idea
uh it's better like like a team team
play team work like hockey hockey is a
it's a team like hockey family that's
right how did you like the the game
yesterday
was a good game good game tight we
thought you guys were uh right in until
until the uh that last go you almost
scored two and six on five yes yes had
your chances M yeah the guy didn't use
his scoring chance next time next time
yeah we suffer the same problem at times
yes yeah that was good high level hockey
for sure fast oh yeah yeah it was a good
game good game and uh yeah I was
impressed honestly it was very very good
it's nice to see live you know what I
mean yes it's yeah sometimes you watch
games on video but when you see live
it's uh it's even better right so that
was good very very good hockey you never
get an appreciation on video I think for
the the quality of of the game of hockey
you have to come watch you have to see
it live yeah even um we are working a
lot on TV production it's not the same
level sometimes uh some games we are the
same level as NHL but we working hard on
that the TV production will be better
still it's not possible to through TV to
give the same emotion as as on as as on
the ice on so they say about uh hockey
is the best sport to watch live right so
you know I can watch football back home
and on TV I'm like I'm happy but when
hockey is like I I want to go see it
live and that was especially in this
building it was incredible yesterday for
sure what do what do you how many people
last
night 22,000 22m
how many people attending each Montreal
game uh sold out but it's
21 know always sold 21 Z yeah always
sold out yeah also the practices are
sold out I
heard well American League is sold out
as well yeah American League does uh
close to 10,000 this is what we need to
improve our second team n they're
playing but not always sold out so we
need to improve that where are they
playing at the hockey City we have a
facility there hockey City it's not
every team in in the league and I and
historically Montreal has had their team
in Hamilton before Laval it's been in
sherbrook which is like an hour and a
half east of Montreal this is the first
time the last however many years where
our farm team is like our fans that
could go to a Montreal game could also
go to a Laval game right same ticket uh
not same ticket but just in terms of
proximity oh okay cuz if you live in
Montreal you could get to Laval in 30
minutes oh okay okay right and and for
us uh for the first time in the history
of the organization while we go through
a
rebuild uh there there's a lot of
interest in the young players so people
are going to Laval to see um to see them
and we have a lot of French Canadian
players kids that grew up in the area
but how many French Canadian you have in
the team now in the Montreal well it
depends Harvey perard got hurt so he uh
he's been down uh rehab trying to get
back into shape cuz he missed the better
part of last year and then all summer
David sard who um has been all year Sam
monmo has been all year joshu has been
up and then back in Lal but a good young
player um am I missing somebody Alex
Bari Boule played uh briefly for us
right that's it I think no that's it
yeah it's more challenging you know we
get asked this question a lot the
challenge in in in a draft system like
we have in in the National Hockey League
is you know it's so hard to build a a
winning hockey team you know so we have
to take the best player available and
and our standard has generally been all
things equal we would take a French
Canadian player over all else uh but
it's so difficult to make all things
equal because we might like a guy
picking at 30 and he's there at 27 but
if we have to trade a pick away to get
to 27 it's not equal anymore
so sometimes we sit right how many times
we were waiting for a player to pick and
he goes right before it's kind of a
system to balance everything can we say
in French
s
s this way um because uh also in Russia
uh historically like French culture is
also always been here like since uh long
long time ago even before the Soviet
Union Russia Empire everybody spoke
French really yes yes uh always was two
languages French and Russian the tar
family they all spoke French Cu uh it
was a part of the culture okay and then
a lot of people speak French and they
appreciate the French
culture uh a lot of French uh
restaurants uh people uh even though now
they don't maybe travel so much to
France but uh a lot of French culture we
have there still like French Villages or
French little cities still or not yeah
lot of French uh even French Canadian
people living in uh Russia yes okay they
work as as teachers okay in schools
uh they're studying yes uh from from
Montreal even uh I know some teachers
they they study here or they teach here
and then they get married and they have
family yeah because it's I think it's a
culturally it's very close so like let's
say if Russian person speak to American
person it's uh maybe the cult there's
not so much things in common yeah but if
a Russian person speak to a French
Canadian a lot of things in common in
terms of the same culture same
understanding of Life uh so I think in
this sense uh we are much closer even I
was starting in school but u a little
bit of
I
just there you go exactly magnific also
also in only French and Russia language
you have this umu
likeu
and Russ yes yes only only Russian and
French they really only two languages in
the world but a lot of it's coming from
the Russian Empire and the tar families
and all this culture exchange back then
yeah so a lot of similar World also a
lot of words in Russian the French words
in Russia yeah M like a car M machine or
automobile
a lot of uh I remember coming here not
even the English language become so big
uh French language is bigger yeah uh but
there's not so much like I would say
it's more French influence than American
influence in the Russian culture and
also hockey hockey can Canada Russia
because of hockey I think because of
Canada everyone loves hockey and also in
Russia everyone lost hocky yeah that's
why we have many things in common mhm
and this respect I think for Canada and
all these uh super serious Russia can of
games everybody remembers only those
games no one remembers uh other games
people only remember Russia car games oh
yeah I made my kids watch the uh bought
the DVD made them watch the 87 series oh
yeah with yeah they were unbelievable 87
I think minina was the head coach minina
was just recently head coach against the
G world team yes yes we won against them
uh for one he's still coaching here yeah
no he was just a coach for this uh for
this tournament okay okay okay yeah
playing against Russia was always a big
game when you play for Team Canada every
tournament if you just even it's this
exhibition game you play against Russia
remember myself 2008 uh Russia won 2010
Vancouver Canada won those big teams
Canada used to have those big guys
skilled guys always going for check
Russia playing maybe more like a skilled
guys with the puck also great uh like um
Generation generation like young oin
young Malin young kuk all these guys
playing their best hockey Ryan G playing
for Canada yeah you playing for in 06 we
uh they beat us in quarterfinals in
Italy Torino in Torino was one- nothing
game yeah I was there I was there at
this game I was there at this game my
buddies flew in cuz you know you think
Canada's going to go to the finals so my
buddies flew in on
for the quarterfinals as they're flying
in they could I don't know if they got
info on the plane or whatever but they
they they learned that we lost so they
came for nothing so they thought we
could go buy
and that was a good team that was a good
game yeah great team but then the next
game they lost yeah yeah who went that
year celebrating too much they win right
Sweden year Finland yeah was Sweden
Finland that year I think yeah those
games they like the best the best games
Russia Canada yeah we need to do it
again soon hopefully yeah that's right
and we can start from kids I mean if
possible we can do organize some
tournaments for kids that would be great
for our kids you can play anywhere in
the world it's good for the passion
Dubai Abu Dhabi turkey any place uh I
think that would be great for everyone
for the hockey development all together
yeah and why not maybe NH class playing
playing against K clubs sky is ready to
play against mon canes of course we need
permission for man
M but maybe in the future we can we can
try to work work on it yeah for sure cuz
everyone remembers those games I mean
even so many years ago Montreal playing
against sea everyone remembers those
games even we show those clips I showed
those clips uh before the channel one
tournament to our to our national team
oh really I showed this clip yes uh
Montreal playing against Tesa Tesa when
the USSR power play how they play power
play that was amazing
moving moving yes moving all the Five
Guys Moving great game great play I mean
modern hockey they play like fake shot
moving the par give and go yeah that was
beautiful to watch we we should maybe uh
try at least uh plan it you know M let's
hope he can do it but for the kids we
can do like if your son plays 2011 we
have actually a very good team 2011 oh
yeah yes uh Sky Kem Red Machine Jr they
play group a in Moscow League yeah like
T kaspar Damo Red Machine Jr playing
high level 2011 very good team so we can
why not we can organize this game it
will be interested to see like the level
because now we don't know we say okay we
have a good level you say a good level
but before they meet together we don't
know that's right yeah you don't know
like now I heard a lot of people not
happy because Canada not playing Russia
because Canada is always saying okay we
have the best team Russia saying we have
the best team but only when they play
together you know the real the real
story yes who is the best you know yeah
we've seen that we talked about that
yesterday in the interview that um as
hockey people like professionals that go
Scout tournaments it's you notice the
absence right like even when they set up
their brackets the u8 worlds there
there's only so many good games
unfortunately competition you know you
need you need competition in order to
develop there's no other way mhm and
without Russia Canada Games is not
developed but in Canada or in Russia the
same it's also bad for Russia also bad
for Canada so when we play together we
develop yeah play the best like even
last night's game two big teams big
teams the players develop May develop
together yeah like like like today like
we have a team meeting I had to show
them detail how we can become better so
but without this game like all these
guys uh they look so talented and
they're so skilled in the practice
they're the best but only the game show
your real level that's right yeah
especially I remember those last game I
remember Russia Canada final World
Juniors we're leading 3-1 again after
second period I think the guy threw the
puck out and he hit the camera remember
this story yeah I remember yeah hit the
camera so it was not two minutes because
it was a camera if you hit the camera
it's not two minutes even though he
threw the puck out it was a crucial
point of the game but not good game good
game yeah yeah but that's what it's
always with Canada Russia you never know
even it's 31 or 4-1 caning or rushing it
can be 54 that's why people want love to
watch it never give up no one wants to
watch game z0 and then six over time
maybe some uh tip or um or short pass or
you know yeah yeah some short to tip
maybe all the other guy scoring his own
net uh it gets like the it gets boring
for everyone yeah you don't get
sponsorship you don't get ticket sales
the world juniors for Canada is one of
the biggest
events it's like uh it's got to be one
of the most watched right the boxing day
the day after Christmas they play their
first game every yeah was a great story
for Christmas yeah yeah wake up I was
always you wake up was the best and you
see these young guys always young kids
you see the young kids and you see these
names and you start to look for them
yeah these young panari young young
tasen young these guys you know you're
watching them play how they play against
Canada because this is interesting okay
when they play in Russia they have great
games but it's not the same but they win
against can they win the score against
Canada it's something special yeah only
Canadians or Russians understand this
you know we only we understand it's in
our culture it's in our block it's our
DNA hockey is in our DNA yeah I still
remember my brother played in Germany
what would that have
been maybe 88 89 or 90 and uh he played
with Korea and lindrose on that team and
Lindros this was Lindros before he got
to the NHL and he came back he's like
the Russians have this guy he's better
it was
kovalev I kov he that he was penalty
kills two minutes El by dad I penal
kills two minutes all by himself he has
so much skill oh my gosh think he play
mon yeah I played in Kazan with him when
I played here watch him every practice
like
he's out of this world like what he does
with a puck
it's impressive very impressive oh my
gosh he's the last last play in Montreal
to be a pointed game guy the young guys
now take over yeah I hope I hope
somebody you Montreal's culture is very
uh and the association with the
Canadians is they grew up such a
dominant team and with a lot of offense
so Montreal fans they want to win but
they want to win playing their way
offense right they're always talking
about offense this exactly what combines
us uh Scott and Montreal because want to
also play very like a beautiful hockey
beautiful in the sense that we score a
lot of goals people love this kind of
play create plays create plays yes great
plays this Russian Canadian style yeah
so this is can it also play like like
that is now I saw like even NH even
Montreal in NHL people try to play
offense more yep cuz that why that's how
people are coming to the stadium oh
definitely yeah that's why they get so
excited about uh the Young but given
where we are right the young players
like Ivan they get excited about what he
could represent offensively yes uh like
last L I think you saw the difference in
refering also between NHL
KHL what did you see well we talked
about you know he in in the NHL they
they're very focused on because they're
trying to promote offense on stick work
or things like that that interfere with
scoring chances even uh the mid of uh on
the breakway exactly yeah it will be 2
minutes yeah I
agree we should move forward to this
this is some uh unfortunately sometimes
people understand if you want to play
offensive hockey uh refering is a big
part of this because if you can hang on
the guy it becomes more like a judo not
hockey right it's like you hang on the
guy so um these things like hooking um
uh making this uh mistakes
it will not create um
goals because you have a scoring chance
somebody's hanging on your arm it's hard
to score with one hand yep so I played
the last game of the old rules so when
we won in
2004 um that was the last game that guys
were allowed to hook after that they
changed all the rules 2004 2004 it's
night and day how you can play when you
you know you call all penalties slashing
hooking slashing hooking yeah yeah now
you can actually do something and score
a goal right more goals that's why in
NHL there score differ yeah big big
difference and that's why people love
hockey for goals yeah they want to see
goals they want to see guys going to the
net like you said if you're getting
pulled and you can't do anything
then not exciting yeah it's interesting
because uh this is something uh
important to hear from you like Legend
of hockey Professionals of hockey
because like some sometimes people don't
understand this it's uh very important
yeah and you changed in 2004 this
approach yeah oh the games went from 21
to 54 65 you know three goals a game to
67 you know I mean it's just big
difference big big big difference yeah
this is something I think uh crucial for
hockey development yeah this is I think
what needs to be done also international
hockey because it's different rules in
uh when you play World Championship mhm
I went to see many nhal games uh and
then I went to see the world
championship games uh any players come
to world championship and you still
allowed to hook there you still allowed
to slash in World Championship so it's
not good for the NHA players they get
frustrated yeah let's say we played 2019
final semi-final against Finland we had
the best teamin kucherov theet best team
but because they were allowed to hook
and slash different game yeah the skill
level goes like if you have this skill
level and this skill level if you
allowed to hook and slash it it becomes
equal for sure it becomes equal yeah
absolutely because no one even dasenko
even panarin if you if you hang on him
take his hand he will not score
unfortunately yeah or he needs to be so
strong like like C Crosby sometimes he
can score with one hand but not not
every time not many guys but not every
time I think overall if we work together
I think we can develop hockey and
refereeing and I think uh uh players
that uh are ready for NHL like from in
my point of view they're ready to play
first line power play they should go and
play but when the player is not ready
when he's like uh Fifth Line sixth line
or he's AHL he's not go to North America
he stay in Russia when the ra play is
ready he needs to go like you have a
good example like panarin for example
Sam he came to our team SC team he
became a star he won the cup so became a
leader he was ready for NHL even though
he was not drafted he was not drafted
nobody saw his
talent even though this the the system
in in North America is great but no one
nobody saw his talent so we develop him
and then he was ready to play first line
he went to Chicago he played with
Patrick Kane and then they became uh
very good good line and then uh he
became an NHL star and now he's one of
the best and best paid players in in the
league so when the players are ready
they should go mhm when they're not
ready they should
stay yeah I think it's always it's
interesting right we we deal with this
every day with players what whatever
League they come from and it's
uh there's a lot of factors like the
player the individual like we talked
about downstairs even with Goal tending
it's what do they have inside them
character-wise you know some people are
are going to shy from pressure others
are going to embrace so there there's a
lot of interesting factors I think in
assessing that with players but but you
never want to put people in situations
they're not ready for when working
together let's say even like the off ice
planning ice on Ice practicing talking
to each other then it's a win-win for
everyone like Now with uh in case of Ian
of we talking to each other
communicating see his development we see
his plan coming from Montreal is the
same what we're doing here so we
understand that he's good for us because
he can be a Difference Maker uh in our
our games like last night even though
he's a young guy he is one of the best
guys on ice but it's Al also a lot of
work like in terms of uh there's a lot
of details in hockey in terms of Defense
play neutral zone of offensive play and
also his uh um physical uh condition
which improved a lot uh honestly
speaking he's working hard if uh this
kind of a talented guy working hard
goodp it will make a difference yes he a
hardworking guy and he has a dream he's
going for this dream in this way he
stubborn guy he's going for the dream
and he he wants to work hard if he keeps
working hard I'm sure he will be one of
the best considering that that's good
you like to hear that
without a work ethic it's hard there
aren't
many work ethic yeah you have to work
outw work everyone and then you you can
be the best people talk even about
Crosby and his work ethic and others but
kucherov is another they talk about how
how hard he works he never doesn't
stop never stops I think he takes one or
two weeks off after the season he's
right back at it every day or five this
a commitment yeah 24 hours a day
commitment
hockey yep that's what we say if you
want to be a hockey player or even you
want to be a coach or a manager in
hockey you have to give 100% M otherwise
you have no chance to be successful yeah
then you can choose other profession but
I think it's every profession is like
this you have to give
100% especially hockey especially hockey
because you have to go uh early to sleep
have the balance you know sleep well eat
well you know um you can't uh be a good
hockey player if you're all the time
thinking about something else you have
to be focused committed
committed yeah once again uh thank you
for coming to Russia to to St Petersburg
and you're welcome to come back again
anytime any time we are happy hopefully
in the near future we can come over to
Montreal I was there as I said 20 years
ago and then I came first to locker room
of Montreal Canadians and I was so
amazed and it was like a dream to come
true and then that's how we kind of uh
took this example and made this uh scar
Arena and made this system uh that we
are having now uh in St Petersburg in
Russia overall because we want to also
be the best and you show us the way so
we really appreciate it well this is one
spectacular Arena really really very
impressed amazing place thank you
appreciate
it that's just like only together this
is the example if if in Canada was not
build if you didn't build a bill Center
in Montreal and it was not always full
and this amazing culture for hockey fans
it will be hard to compare to anything
so you have to see the best to become
the best y very true very true so we
really appreciate respect that a lot and
uh anytime you can come back uh we're
really happy to have you here and let's
try to cooperate on uh different
direction especially the youth hockey
youth hockey and then everything that we
can do together I think uh it will be
good for hockey development overall yes
absolutely yeah I think everybody's in
uh incentivized to grow the game of
hockey because we love hockey this is
what unites us yes correct
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