“Ak Bars hockey players understand what needs to be worked on” – Zaripov

Forward “Ak Bars” Danis Zaripov commented on the victory over “Vityaz” (3:1) in the control match, and also said that Kazan understand what needs to be worked on.

– Vityaz is a fast and young team. I am sure that she will give battle to any opponent in the season. What is the reason for the large number of deletions? There are such matches, this is the pre-season, and here the concentration is not similar to the official matches. Normal occurrence. On the other hand, they trained the minority. Several criteria can be included in these problems. In principle, the team is under good workload, and this also affects somewhere. Now we understand what we need to work on.

My health? Today everything was fine, but this is the second meeting in the preseason. There was such a good playing tone, and the whole game went at a good pace. It is clear that somewhere I did not have time for some moments, but there is still time before the season – we will work. And so, according to the state of health, everything was fine, – quotes the words of Zaripov “Championship”.

Zaripov is a three-time world champion, the only five-time winner of the Gagarin Cup in the history of the KHL, he won the trophy three times with Ak Bars, twice with Metallurg Magnitogorsk. In total, the 41-year-old forward played 802 games in the KHL and scored 682 points (292+390).