Ilya Nikulin and Alexander Ovechkin together threw some hockey player onto the ice and started to beat. At the same time, Vitaly Atyushov pounded Ovechkin with a club on his back (if he were a simple man in Ovechkin's place, he would have been taken to the hospital). Everyone laughed joyfully. The victim was Alexander Kharitonov, who, however, was not offended by his comrades. So began the daily training of the Russian team.
Vyacheslav Bykov pulled up to the board where the journalists were standing and looked friendly:
- Spy? he asked.
“Yes,” they answered him. - Tell the composition of the links.
- We will have four links, - the head coach began to reveal secrets. - Black, yellow, red and blue.
“You only speak them up,” Igor Zakharkin arrived.
- Whom? - the reporters were surprised.
“Finns,” the second coach whispered. - We will try a secret scheme here. And you speak them. And by the way, are there Finns here? Not. Well then fine.
It should be noted that the most amazing exercise in training was the “five to zero” exit. This, apparently, is especially for Finnish journalists who will hand over to their team, they say, the Russians are preparing to play without an opponent.
Suddenly, the traffic police inspector approached the board. Really, someone exceeded speed (the first suspicions, of course, fell on Ovechkin, he was the first to go out on the ice and for some reason wind up circles).
- How much will you train? - the traffic inspector turned to Bykov.
“We start at three,” the coach began to count. - We’ll ride an hour, half an hour at the training camp. At 15.30 we will be free.
The police officer instantly froze. He felt something was wrong, but he could not formulate it.
“Oh, or rather, at 16.30 we’ll free ourselves,” the Bulls saved the situation. Traffic police officer relaxed.
The main sensation of the day was the appearance in the arena of Pavel Borodin, the former manager of the President of Russia. He arrived to train with some kids (who immediately after the end of the class started running on the ice). But they promised that the national team would be protected from officials and politicians.
In fairness, it is worth noting that Pavel Borodin did not intervene in the course of the training, did not advise Bykov on how to arrange the players and did not distract hockey players. He just took a picture after training with the Malkin link (as probably the most famous) and the Happy link (for order).
“Well then, they began to distract you,” later asked Alexander Kharitonov. - The politicians have gone. Does all this interfere?
“Why are you doing that,” exclaimed the hockey player. - It's okay. This is an extra PR for us.
Well, it's nice that our players know such words.
Alexey Shevchenko