Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod forward Nikolai Kovalenko in an interview legal betting He stated that the team needed to improve its defensive play in order to have a successful performance in the Gagarin Cup play-offs.
According to him, “automobile manufacturers” have been quite unsuccessful in their defense lately.
“We conceded a lot of goals: 50 goals in five matches. Defense is very important because we can score five goals but we can only score seven goals. “We need to improve the defense 100 percent, you can see it yourself,” Kovalenko said.
In the current KHL regular season, Kovalenko played in 40 games, in which he scored 11 goals and made 23 assists. Torpedo ranked sixth in the Western Conference standings, collecting 74 points after 66 matches.
Kovalenko, 24, was drafted by the Colorado Avalanche in 2018. Kovalenko was born in Raleigh, the capital of the US state of North Carolina, while his father Andrei Kovalenko was playing for the NHL club Carolina Hurricanes from this city.
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