MOSCOW, June 20, Andrey Senchenko. Sports agent Dan Milstein representing the interests many Russian hockey players, said that he was advised to pay attention to the game of striker Andrei Kuzmenko by his client, Tampa Bay forward Nikita Kucherov, who predicted the player's future in the National Hockey League (NHL). Kuzmenko signed a rookie contract with the Vancouver NHL club. According to Milstein, he and the 26-year-old player were in dialogue with six teams in the league. «Many years ago, two months after Andrey could have been taken by any NHL team in the seventh round of the draft, but did not, he had a game in within the pre-season with CSKA, and that match was watched by Nikita Kucherov. After watching the game, Kucherov saw a young Andrey Kuzmenko and called me: «Pay attention — this boy can play in the NHL. That's how we met Andrey,» Milstein said. For the past four years, almost all 32 NHL clubs have contacted us and had a dialogue with us. Six teams made it to the final. We personally traveled around the cities, looked at the options, talked with the head coaches and general managers. As a result, dialogue brought Andrei the greatest comfort with Vancouver. That's why he decided to continue his career with the Canucks,” added the agent. Last season, Kuzmenko played 61 games in the St. ) and became the second scorer and fourth assistant of the regular season of the Continental Hockey League (45 points; 20+33). Earlier in the KHL, the striker defended the colors of CSKA.
