Whether Olympic champion Ilya Kovalchuk will remain with Spartak is one of the main intrigues of the next KHL season. Here’s wha

Whether Olympic champion Ilya Kovalchuk will remain with Spartak is one of the main intrigues of the next KHL season. Here’s what the team’s head coach Alexey Zhamnov told TASS on this topic: ▪️“Ilya and I will discuss all the nuances later... The fact that he returned, he made this choice himself, no one forced him“; ▪️“I am grateful that he was with us at some stage. When he was not in the lineup, he treated it professionally, there were no hard feelings between us. He was part team, and I think the players also gained tremendous experience“; ▪️When asked whether he sees Kovalchuk’s future in Russian hockey, the coach replied: “He’s an experienced guy, we’ll see how his career develops.” Video: Rustam Sharafutdinov/TASS Source: Lord Of War