Andrei SenchenkoSport correspondentAll materialsWrite to the authorColorado management can only be applauded for the ingenious decision to sign a chic contract with Valery Nichushkin. In modern professional sports, there are not so many people who can really be called an example for future generations. Valery Nichushkin from this number. The 27-year-old native of Chelyabinsk has collected the qualities of patience, diligence, determination and courage in their best form. This combination inevitably led Big Val to great success. The Stanley Cup won this summer in the Colorado Avalanche was for Nichushkin only one of the pages of his triumphant history. He writes it to this day. In the prologue, Valery introduced failures at the starting stage of his NHL career, a long goalless streak, which every second layman joked about, and even an idiotic doping scandal, blown out of the blue. But out of all the unpleasant situations, the Russian emerged victorious. Even despite the severe pain, as it was in the final series with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
