A new very comprehensive Solovyov interview has come out. It had a lot of interesting stories. That said it's over 2 hours so I probably won't be translating the whole thing.
You can watch it with auto-generated subtitles if you feel like it.
The topics discussed are:
- Returning to Belarus after 4 years - meeting the parents etc.
- Solovyov in the AHL - this one mostly talks about Solo being Americanized and comparing AHL to KHL
- The crime town of Stockton - some crazy stories here about what the players had to go through in Stockton
- A bunch of Belarus/Dynamo topics I fast forwarded
- The heart rate of NHL players during a shift
- Being drafted in the NHL
- Contract with the Flames
- Solo being overweight - losing extra weight with Mitch Love after practice
- Battle of Alberta - here he talks about the fans, the rivalry, the intensity of the insults and how it feels sitting in the penalty box in the opposing rink
- Stanley Cup final - The quality of the Panthers team, playing against them, and who he was cheering for
- His car accident during his NHL debut - he gives a couple more details here than last time.
- Sharangovich - discusses Sharky's status with the team very broadly
- Rookie dinner - the cost, missing his rookie dinner, rookie assignments he and Kuznetsov had to do and record for the vets, etc.
- The benefits of playing in Canada - here he discusses his car, and what he had to do in exchange for leasing it for a year free of charge.
- Plans for the season
- The best choice of Solo's life : marrying his wife, instead of leaving to NA by himself
Since he's still only a prospect, I just wanted to gauge interest and see which topics I should get around to first, or if it's better to just do a Coles Notes version without sticking to the exact text. The other option is to just throw the Russian transcript into chatGPT and just make minor corrections to the text, instead of rewording sentences to keep the tone of the conversation.