Bogdan Konyushkov revealed the secret of Torpedo’s success

For two seasons in a row, the Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo hockey players have been surprising their fans and the entire hockey community. Until May 2022, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod played without much success in the Western and Eastern Conferences, limiting themselves to reaching the first round of the Gagarin Cup playoffs, but the arrival of Igor Larionov changed everything. During the 2 months of pre-season training, “The Professor” updated the roster and instilled in the team a philosophy that allows them to win and achieve success.

If the success of Torpedo in the first season under the leadership of Igor Larionov can be called an accident, then the stable play of the Avtozavodtsy during the current regular season makes it clear that “Professor” did not create a temporary effect, but established a team game that allows them to achieve beautiful and creative victories at the expense of young and talented hockey players, and not promoted stars with large salaries.

Bogdan Konyushkov spoke about the reasons for Torpedo’s success.

“Definitely not an effect of surprise. This can be considered in the first season, when everyone was skeptical about our hockey, about our late training camp. Perhaps somewhere they were under-tuning us. Now it’s the second season and there is no underestimation anymore. Everyone has long understood how “We play hockey. We just show a good game, and we manage to win,” Bogdan said.