01:51:55 Cooperation with Betera
- Let's talk about your cooperation with Betera[gambling], you're an ambassador. There are actually 3 amabasadors: Misha [Grabovsky], Lesha [Alexei Protas], and you. You and Lesha aren't making any game predictions. Did you agree to it beforehand, that you won't be making any active predictions as active players?
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I don't think that the rules would allow us to make predictions. The league's[NHL's] rules won't allow us to even discuss games.
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- So Misha, as a retired player, can give his opinion as an expert, and you two are just ambassadors for Belarus in that league. So your cooperation consists of: today Yegor or Lesha are playing, make your picks accordingly.
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Yes.
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- Talking to fans and representing is also a part of the job.
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Yes, but we're not allowed to do what Misha does.
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- Do you ever make any predictions for yourself about NHL games. As in, this team is going to beat that team. Or you don't really follow that during the regular season and playoffs?
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Well, during the playoffs, I had someone ask me who I thought the favorites were. I gave it some thought then.
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01:53:25 A couple of difficult questions
- I thought it would be Carolina.
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I think we'll win it next year! Calgary!
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- You predict that every year.
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Why?
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- Were you asked that question last year? As in, who would be the Stanley Cup winner?
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No.
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- So you are ready, sitting around this table, to say that Calgary are going to be the champs next year? Will Calgary make the playoffs next year?
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Yes. That's the first goal, make the playoffs.
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- Will you play more games with Solovyov next year than you did this season?
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I hope that I do.
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01:53:47 About money, private life and outside discussions
- You're at, I don't want to say the peak of your career, a very good point in your career that keeps getting better. It's a big league, a very high level, and like other elite athletes you have certain perks. Your contract, I mean the monetary compensation for your work. It's pretty common in international sports, but as we already mentioned today, many seem annoyed by it. What do you think of those people?
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I don't really get it. Everyone fantasies about driving a nice car as a kid. Why, if you dedicate your entire life to hockey from the time you're 4 years old, you can't buy yourself a nice car? Because then there will be someone talking about it in a bad light.
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- Because that someone couldn't buy it for him/herself
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Right. Dasha was reading some of those comments on social networks, to a point, even showing some to me. One interesting comment I remember was after New Year's. Dasha bought me presents, I bought her, and we had a bunch of packages under the Christmas tree. I think we left the packages themselves under the tree for about 4 months, actually.
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- Were those packages from Cartier?
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No.
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- Because I remember those on Instagram a while ago. That's right, that was still in NJ.
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So that person only noticed a Gucci package. That person wrote something along the lines of: “I'm disgusted by that family, I stopped cheering for them”. Well, you get it.
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- Why? Because you bought a person you love a present for new years?
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Probably. That's the only one that was interesting and really stuck with me. I'm sure there's more people like it. That's why I stopped reading comments during my first season with Dynamo. I don't understand what's so special about it. Everyone spends a ton of time on social networks, so I don't know why I shouldn't post something that other people deem excessive.
In my first year in Dynamo, I was worried about posting certain stories, because I thought that people would judge me because of them.
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- Those are just strange stereotypes. I get it if someone that didn't do an honest day's work has a nice car, or buys Gucci, but if it's someone that's making market rate. The market dictates that someone is paid $1,000, someone $100,000 and someone else Millions. What do you think about it if it's fairly made money?
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It's a difficult issue to discuss. I just think that I should be able to post anything to Instagram. As in, why can't I just post my personal life on Instagram, without having to think about how it might affect someone.
For example there was a post with a beer bottle. Many Americans post pictures of themselves with a beer bottle.
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- That's true, but said person doesn't do that behind the bench, but in his free time.
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Now there will be an article.
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- There definitely would be, that you actually drink beer, as a 25-year-old.
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There's actually a new portal that takes Dasha's [Instagram] posts and make each of them into a news article.
For example, we were on vacation, and there was an article for almost every story post.
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- A separate article?
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Well, maybe not for every story post, but for 50% of them. So after the vacation was done, there came out a separate article combining all the previous ones.
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- Well that's cool, you created someone a job.
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It's just very interesting[that someone would bother doing it]. It has been happening for quite a while.
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- That's a part of your job as a public figure.
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Yeah, but it was a sports news portal. What does my vacation have to do with it? That's the part I have a hard time grasping.
Sometimes we even show our Russian friends. Nikita Okhotyuk [and his wife/gf] visited us. So we showed them that anything we post in the stories ends up as news. I don't know why they do that.
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- Just to generate content and clicks. You're a popular athlete and someone would want to read about you. I guess that's just a matter of quality, and how seriously the person that's writing those articles treats his work.
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I agree.
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Here's the talked about portal's vacation article just because I'm sure you're all interested in Sharky's personal life lol. I'm very happy to be done with this one, because the last 2–3 posts seemed like a bit of nothingburger.