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Alexander Tyzhnykh agent. Three quarters of the team. It's corny, but they say the goalkeeper is half the team

A famous goalkeeper and agent talks about the competition between Demchenko and Francouz, Voinov’s family drama and the most talented Chelyabinsk prospect.

“Crosby was already phenomenal at eight years old.”

“I left the USSR to play in Canada, I’ve lived there ever since, but I consider Chelyabinsk my home,” begins Alexander Tyzhnykh. “My relatives and friends are here, unfortunately, some of them have already passed away. Here I can meet the Makarov brothers, with whom I played together, at the match with CSKA. I remember Sergei from the Voskhod school. Even then he stood out for his perfect hockey IQ, good skating and hands. He was capable of defeating the entire team single-handedly.

As an agent, have you come across such diamonds as Makarov?
When I finished sports career, then opened several hockey schools. One day, an 8-year-old boy named Sidney Crosby came to one of them. Even then he was extraordinary and was four years ahead of his peers in development. Sidney studied at our school for five years, and I always knew that one day the guy would grow into a big star. And so it happened.

How does hockey education overseas differ from Russian education?
Russia has a clear vertical structure. Take Chelyabinsk: there is a Traktor, a farm, a youth team, schools different ages. And it's all one structure. In Canada, children's teams have no connection with NHL clubs. Sections are mostly paid. If you take the entire hockey education of a child from 7 to 15 years old, it will cost parents at least 30 thousand dollars. And that's not counting summer camps, master classes and hotel costs. The minimum return begins only at the age of 15-16, when a guy gets into a team with a professional coach through a junior draft. The club provides him with equipment and a salary of $50 a week. But not everyone is selected in the draft.

“The story with Voinov cost me sleepless nights”

You are working with Traktor goalkeeper Vasily Demchenko, who is actively interested in Arizona.
Coyotes offer two-year contract, there is interest and Russian clubs, but I think that Vasily will connect his near future with Chelyabinsk. You see, the agent exists to give the guy the right advice. Contracts are a secondary matter. But I think that you need to stay in your native club, pay tribute to it and go through some stages together with it. “Traktor” is a great place, president Boris Dubrovsky is attentive to any issues, the club has ambitions - there is a place to prove oneself.

Demchenko started the season as number one, but then Francouz began to play more.
We must give credit to Pavel, who grabbed the chance and shows phenomenal statistics. Vasily needs to add stability. There are also games where one goalkeeper in the field is not a warrior. Like the recent away game with Dynamo Moscow. Three power plays - three goals. It seems that the goalkeeper is charged and determined for the match, but it’s just not his day. In any case, competition helps to grow. It’s very good that Traktor has two strong gates. The one who is better prepared plays.

Your client Vyacheslav Voinov survived charges of domestic violence and an American prison. Has what happened changed him in any way?
All families have arguments and difficult moments. Vyacheslav and Marta emerged from the situation with dignity. Gennady Timchenko, Roman Rotenberg, Vladislav Tretyak, Oleg Znarok, and our embassy in the USA helped us a lot. Now Vyacheslav plays great for SKA, he has rediscovered himself in Russia. The contract with St. Petersburg is valid for another year and a half; if Voinov continues to be satisfied with everything, then he may remain in the KHL. Moreover, the disqualification in the NHL has not yet been lifted.

What did history cost you?
Sleepless nights! But I did not fall into despair. I have known Vyacheslav since I was 15 years old - even then he was a leader and a man capable of overcoming difficulties.

“An agent is not a nanny or a friend, but a business partner”

Your colleague Shumi Babaev believes that the agent helps the hockey player not turn into a slave. Alexey Dementyev is sure that an agent is a player’s friend, helping him become the best. How would you formulate the mission of your profession?
The main goal is customer development! We need to help an 18 year old boy with training process, with choice proper nutrition, give good advice. An agent is not a nanny or a friend of the player, but a business partner. When my hockey player doesn’t finish his work, I ask him harshly. If I find out about a violation of the sports regime, then I go into conflict. As for the “shackles,” there is no need to be afraid of long contracts for two or three seasons. This is a completely normal situation. Of course, it happens that the club imposes a contract according to the regulations... We, agents, would like all hockey players to be free and able to change jobs at any time. But in Russia this will not work. There will be chaos, everyone will run from their clubs.

How exactly do you help clients grow?
Every year I collect them in Ottawa and organize camping: ice, general physical training, Athletics, yoga, gymnastics. I hire strong specialists, for example, the Montreal coach works with the guys in skating. Each player has his own program: some need to work on speed, others on physics. During the season, I watch everyone the same and notice their shortcomings, no matter if we are talking about a promising young prospect or Andrei Vasilevsky, or Kirill Petrov.

“A hockey player should not discuss politics or criticize coaches”

Do you work only with Russian hockey players?
No, we are handling the cases of the Canadians and the Slovakian goalkeeper of Los Angeles Peter Budaj. The search for talent is ongoing. I have assistants in Russia who monitor young people and send me reports. But before signing a contract, I try to see the guy’s performance with my own eyes. When I was in Chelyabinsk, for example, I attended the Polar Bears match. There, many guys can grow into good hockey players.

Which of the unexposed Chelyabinsk avenues can shoot in the near future?
I've heard a lot about Vitaly Kravtsov. He is an interesting boy, called up to the 1999 national team. Already made his debut for Traktor. Also - Vladislav Sukhachev. He can develop into a goalkeeper for the national team.

Young players are active on social networks and sometimes this leads to disasters. An online showdown between ex-Black and White player Igor Velichkin and fans, for example, almost led to real bloodshed. Do you give recommendations to clients on what to post on Instagram and VK?
I can't stop a guy from talking about his personal life, but he has to be smart and remember to be public. Posting provocative things online is wrong. We constantly explain to players how the media works. This is also the norm for NHL clubs. Lectures on working with journalists are held for beginners. They are explained that they need to be open, but at the same time avoid provocations. Do not discuss politics, do not criticize the club, coaches and partners, do not wash dirty linen in public.

Last youth championship the world showed that Russia is growing fewer and fewer stars. Kaprizov’s team was fantastic, the rest were workhorses.
In Bragin's team, each player has his own role. The coach, for example, did not take my client Nikita Korostelev to the championship, who scores almost two points per match in Canadian youth hockey. But you're right, y Russian coaches there is no such choice as Canadians, Americans or Swedes. This is confirmed by the latest NHL drafts. Previously, 20 of our guys were selected for them, now 7-10. And the point here is not at all about the “Russian factor”. I don’t want to offend anyone, but the problem is in the coaching staff. Children's mentors do not develop. They, unlike their predecessors who spent the night on the ice, lack enthusiasm. Today everything comes down to salary. We need to make good bonuses for coaches whose students end up in the KHL and NHL. And perhaps this will somehow affect the situation. Although there are strong schools in Russia, our hockey does not stand still.

Russian hockey player, goalkeeper, graduate of the Ufa "Salavat Yulaev" 20-year-old Andrei Vasilevsky was awarded the "Best Hockey Goalkeeper of the Year" prize. This award was established more than 20 years ago Olympic champion Alexander Pashkov and sports philanthropist Alexander Petrov are presenting it under the auspices of the Federation of Sports Journalists of Russia (FSJR). The winner is determined by the Russian Hockey Federation.

The rise of Andrei Vasilevsky was rapid. The guy proved himself in the Russian youth team, and today he is one of the leading goalkeepers in the country, a world champion, a recruit of the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning club. Last season, largely thanks to Andrey, Salavat reached the finals of the Eastern Conference KHL championship. Vasilevsky was invited to the national team, and the debutant had an amazing world championship - in the match against the US team he saved 39 out of 40 shots and finished the game with a clean sheet against Germany. This spring, Tampa management signed a three-year “newbie contract” with Andrei Vasilevsky. After playing the 2013/14 season in Salavat, he did not continue to play for this club and announced his departure to the NHL.

Andrei Vasilevsky was unable to fly from Florida to Moscow to receive the award. The prize was received by his agent Alexander Tyzhnykh, who will give Andrey this symbol of hockey recognition.

The well-known goalkeeper of CSKA and the USSR national team in the past, Tyzhnykh is called the “Chelyabinsk Canadian”: Alexander lives in Ottawa and represents the interests of hockey stars in the NHL. The RG correspondent spoke with him.

Our congratulations to Andrey. Why do you think your ward was chosen?

Alexander Tyzhnykh: There were many very serious competitors. And I think the choice in favor of Andrei Vasilevsky is not accidental. He is a young and talented player. I think the most promising. Last season For Andrey it was the first big one in his career, he withstood the competition with dignity. He had a very smooth season - no fluctuations, and played especially well in the playoffs.

You, Alexander, are a goalkeeper. And you represent the interests of the goalkeeper. Do you work as an agent only in this “hockey specialty”?

Alexander Tyzhnykh: It so happened that my players are goalkeepers. Andrey Vasilevsky is one of them. I also have Andrey Makarov, Ivan Nalimov, and some others who play in Canada.

It’s trite, but they say that the goalkeeper is half the team...

Alexander Tyzhnykh: More! During the playoffs, this is already 75 percent of the team. It seems to me that the coach of the Russian hockey team, Oleg Znarok, selected goalkeepers, in particular, according to this “digital model” - Alexander Eremenko and the same Vasilevsky.

Spectators do not have to discuss the forwards or defenders, but the goalkeeper is obligatory.

Alexander Tyzhnykh: An ordinary fan, unlike specialists, may not notice the mistakes of an attacker or defender, but certainly do so of a goalkeeper. Some kind of unpredictable rebound and suddenly - the “butterfly” flew in! Who is guilty?! Of course - the goalkeeper. In fact, standing in goal is a lot of pressure, including psychological pressure. And physical - all 60 minutes in the game. I think not everyone is able to cope with such pressure.

How is the sporting fate of Andrei Vasilevsky?

Alexander Tyzhnykh: Andrey is in the Tampa Bay Lightning system. Signed the first “rookie contract”. Now he has two options - either directly to the NHL, or for now to the reserves, to a farm club where young players are being tested. My opinion: it is more useful for him to start the season in a farm club. After all, the game in the NHL is too tough in the sense that you can’t make mistakes. The coach will worry whether Andrey can do it or not. And in a farm club he will play calmly, even making mistakes at first. He won’t feel too much psychological pressure. Andrey will improve from match to match, and even during the season it will be possible to include him in the first team. That's the plan we discussed with Tampa Bay general manager Steve Yzerman. Steve, by the way, praises Vasilevsky very much. This summer, Andrei studied at the Lightning camp and topped the ranking of rookie goalkeepers in the league according to ESPN.

How soon can he move to NBA Tampa?

Alexander Tyzhnykh: The training camp will begin, and if Andrei turns out to be head and shoulders above Tampa's goalkeepers - the American Ben Bishop and our Evgeni Nabokov, then it will be up to the coach to decide who to keep and who not. I wouldn’t be surprised if Andrei almost immediately starts the season in the first team. But, I repeat, it is necessary as in the educational process: first a school, an institute, then, for example, an academy. Farm teams have decent players who are technical, skating, and thinking. Sometimes they just don’t have a chance to make it to the NHL. For example, they don’t fit according to the so-called height data, in other words, they didn’t come out as sprouts.

What does hockey mean to Andrey now?

Alexander Tyzhnykh: It comes first. This is both work and pleasure for him. Mom and dad in Ufa. Father is the goalkeeper coach of the Tolpar youth team. The older brother, Alexey, is also a hockey player. It’s interesting that both brothers started out as forwards, but later the older one became a defender, and the younger one became a goalkeeper.

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Alexander Vladimirovich Tyzhnykh(born May 25, Chelyabinsk, USSR) - Soviet and Canadian professional hockey player, coach and sports agent. Former goalkeeper of the USSR national ice hockey team.

Biography

Alexander Tyzhnykh - student hockey club"Tractor". He spent two seasons in the USSR Championship as a member of the Chelyabinsk team. in 1976 he moved to CSKA Moscow. He played several matches for the Soviet Union national team at the 1984 Canada Cup. He spent the 1988/89 season in Salavat Ufa. In 1989 he left for Canada and played for the AHL club Cape Brenton Oilers. In 1991, he retired from hockey. After retiring from sports, he opened a hockey school in the Canadian city of Sydney. Later became hockey agent. Together with two Canadian lawyers, Alexander Tyzhnykh runs the Fideles Sports Management Group agency.

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“Crosby was already phenomenal at eight years old.”

As an agent, have you come across such diamonds as Makarov?
When I finished my sports career, I opened several hockey schools. One day, an 8-year-old boy named Sidney Crosby came to one of them. Even then he was extraordinary and was four years ahead of his peers in development. Sidney studied at our school for five years, and I always knew that one day the guy would grow into a big star. And so it happened.

How does hockey education overseas differ from Russian education?
Russia has a clear vertical structure. Take Chelyabinsk: there is Traktor, a farm, youth teams, schools of different ages. And it's all one structure. In Canada, children's teams have no connection with NHL clubs. Sections are mostly paid. If you take the entire hockey education of a child from 7 to 15 years old, it will cost parents at least 30 thousand dollars. And this is not counting summer camps, master classes and hotel costs. The minimum return begins only at the age of 15-16, when a guy gets into a team with a professional coach through a junior draft. The club provides him with equipment and a salary of $50 a week. But not everyone is selected in the draft.

“The story with Voinov cost me sleepless nights”

You are working with Traktor goalkeeper Vasily Demchenko, who is actively interested in Arizona.
The Coyotes are offering a two-year contract, there is also interest from Russian clubs, but I think that Vasily will connect his near future with Chelyabinsk. You see, the agent exists to give the guy the right advice. Contracts are a secondary matter. But I think that you need to stay in your native club, pay tribute to it and go through some stages together with it. “Traktor” is a great place, president Boris Dubrovsky is attentive to any issues, the club has ambitions - there is a place to prove oneself.

Demchenko started the season as number one, but then Francouz began to play more.
We must give credit to Pavel, who grabbed the chance and shows phenomenal statistics. Vasily needs to add stability. There are also games where one goalkeeper in the field is not a warrior. Like the recent away game with Dynamo Moscow. Three power plays - three goals. It seems that the goalkeeper is charged and determined for the match, but it’s just not his day. In any case, competition helps to grow. It’s very good that Traktor has two strong gates. The one who is better prepared plays.

What did history cost you?
Sleepless nights! But I did not fall into despair. I have known Vyacheslav since I was 15 years old - even then he was a leader and a man capable of overcoming difficulties.

“An agent is not a nanny or a friend, but a business partner”

Your colleague Shumi Babaev believes that the agent helps the hockey player not turn into a slave. Alexey Dementyev is sure that an agent is a player’s friend, helping him become the best. How would you formulate the mission of your profession?
The main goal is client development! We need to help an 18-year-old boy with the training process, with choosing the right nutrition, and give the right advice. An agent is not a nanny or a friend of the player, but a business partner. When my hockey player doesn’t finish his work, I ask him harshly. If I find out about a violation of the sports regime, then I go into conflict. As for the “shackles,” there is no need to be afraid of long contracts for two or three seasons. This is a completely normal situation. Of course, it happens that the club imposes a contract according to the regulations... We, agents, would like all hockey players to be free and able to change jobs at any time. But in Russia this will not work. There will be chaos, everyone will run from their clubs.

How exactly do you help clients grow?
Every year I gather them in Ottawa and organize a camp: ice, physical training, athletics, yoga, gymnastics. I hire strong specialists, for example, the Montreal coach works with the guys in skating. Each player has his own program: some need to work on speed, others on physics. During the season, I watch everyone the same and notice their shortcomings, no matter if we are talking about a promising young prospect or Andrei Vasilevsky, or Kirill Petrov.

“A hockey player should not discuss politics or criticize coaches”

Do you work only with Russian hockey players?
No, we are handling the cases of the Canadians and the Slovakian goalkeeper of Los Angeles Peter Budaj. The search for talent is ongoing. I have assistants in Russia who monitor young people and send me reports. But before signing a contract, I try to see the guy’s performance with my own eyes. When I was in Chelyabinsk, for example, I attended the Polar Bears match. There, many guys can grow into good hockey players.

Which of the unexposed Chelyabinsk avenues can shoot in the near future?
I've heard a lot about Vitaly Kravtsov. He is an interesting boy, called up to the 1999 national team. Already made his debut for Traktor. Also Vladislav Sukhachev. He can develop into a goalkeeper for the national team.

The last youth world championship showed that Russia is producing fewer and fewer stars. Kaprizov’s team was fantastic, the rest were workhorses.
In Bragin's team, each player has his own role. The coach, for example, did not take my client Nikita Korostelev to the championship, who scores almost two points per match in Canadian youth hockey. But you are right, Russian coaches do not have the same choice as Canadians, Americans or Swedes. This is confirmed by the latest NHL drafts. Previously, 20 of our guys were selected for them, now 7-10. And the point here is not at all about the “Russian factor”. I don’t want to offend anyone, but the problem is in the coaching staff. Children's mentors do not develop. They, unlike their predecessors who spent the night on the ice, lack enthusiasm. Today everything comes down to salary. We need to make good bonuses for coaches whose students end up in the KHL and NHL. And perhaps this will somehow affect the situation. Although there are strong schools in Russia, our hockey does not stand still.

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