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The Faceoff: Sergei Kalinin
Sergey Kalinin won World Juniors, Worlds, the Gagarin Cup and Olympic Gold before the age of 30. He has gone to the KHL Finals with both teams participating in this year’s clash, a tidbit he claims to have forgotten until our catchup over the weekend. The seasoned veteran and NHL alum walked into the Traktor Chelyabinsk locker room this summer as captain, and posted one of his best-ever performances on the Eastern Conference Cinderella squad. Traktor climbed from bottom-feeder to playoff contender, a metamorphosis Kalinin described as “perestroika” before the 2020-2021 campaign even began.
