MOSCOW, Aug 25, Andrey Senchenko.CSKA head coach Sergei Fedorov believes that the new schedule for the 2022/23 season of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) can benefit his wards. In the regular season, the teams will play 68 games. We will see what we face in the season, we will continue the path that we went through in the last playoffs, we will work, of course, we are counting on young people, players from the VHL, some of them went with us training camp in Minsk. Did you have few test matches? Playing practice is always welcome, but we ended the season late. For the last few years, the team has been in the very last rounds of the playoffs. This is one of the reasons why we decided to gather a little later. We completed our program By the beginning of the season we will be ready, we will still play enough,» Fedorov told reporters. On Thursday, CSKA lost to Dynamo Moscow (1:2) in the Moscow Mayor's Cup. “The match was fast, we haven’t played at such speeds for a long time. We worked out all the necessary moments. Dynamo pressed hard, we didn’t manage to avoid cross passes, we conceded two goals. But we did a lot of useful things, we looked at what level we are «Maybe we have played a few shifts and the team really looks a little hard. We will have several days off until September 1, the schedule is clear to us before the first match of the championship. We train and play according to it,» Fedorov added. and CSKA defender Nikita Nesterov, who was named team captain for the season. captaincy, nothing has changed for me. We have a friendly team. Yes, I was entrusted with the captain's patch, but it could be given to any player on the team. We have 22 captains . Are you upset about the departure of Sergei Andronov? He chose his path. Now we communicate a little less,» Nesterov said.
