I can’t call myself a purely attacking defenseman, I can play defense. Yes, I can’t do everything defending, but I’m learning. I am a versatile defenseman. I have a role in starting an attack and preventing the opponent’s attacks.
I can still play on the powerplay and support the attack. But in the Torpedo, all the guys can do this. I’m grateful to the coaching staff and personally to Igor Larionov for not forbidding us from being creative and jumping offensively all the time. On the contrary, they encourage us to do it. Thanks to this, we, I mean our defensemen, are becoming two-way forwards.
