MOSCOW, January 25 Three-time Olympic champion in the USSR national team Vitaly Davydov shared opinion about the composition of the Russian hockey team for the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing.
"Let's be honest: today we don't have as many masters in hockey as there were 20 and even more so 40 years ago. Each scoring player, sniper is worth its weight in gold, everyone needs to be appreciated. Look at our squad, and who will score in Beijing? Gusev? Perhaps, although in Pyeongchang, in my opinion, he was in better shape. Grigorenko? But this season he is no longer as dangerous as three or four years ago. I can say the same about Slepyshev. So it turns out that we are flying to Beijing with a very modest attack. Yes, it has a lot of hard-working players, siloviki, minority specialists, but few sharp forwards. It worries. We are the reigning champions of the Olympics, we will have a special attitude, we won’t be able to sit out and push off! and Anton Burdasov, as well as Dynamo Moscow forward Stanislav Galiev. He noted that it is risky to go to the Olympics without these players.