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00:00it's a huge topic of conversation as it pertains to this rangers team and their future

00:07i think as well that's like why it's such a big deal but um i did actually ask him because

00:15i had a article sent to me um from rg.org which is a website in russia um there was a

00:25interview with alexei kovalov and he was talking about how he had heard that artemi was even

00:31contemplating going back to russia after this season if things didn't work out so i of course

00:38asked him about it and he did not shoot the notion down he did not say absolutely not um he left it

00:49quite open-ended actually he told me i mean you never know hard to say right now it's a very hard

00:57question to be honest and then he basically said that he can't comment on life and what might happen

01:03you know things that might change circumstances and things like that but i mean for one of the

01:10biggest stars in the nhl not to completely shoot down the idea of returning to russia playing in

01:16the khl was pretty notable i mean what do you think about that brian uh okay there's um

01:28jeez how do i say this without yeah all right so look here's the there's been a lot of reports out

01:38of europe in general that have parts of it have potentially been lost in translation um the fact

01:46that you hadn't asked him and he didn't shoot it down is another thing when it's contract time

01:52or your deal is up you know you want to make as much as you can make as an athlete and that's

01:59you separate you like that's your time where you're just thinking about you and then 300 and

02:05every other day of the year or every other day your contract it's what's team team team right you have

02:09to think about you as a pro athlete because it ends fast and even if you have a long career you know

02:17i'd finish playing at 37 which is you know great i was very thankful and blessed uh that's a long time

02:23to live and provide and some of us might have had a bunch more kids after we're done playing

02:31some of us had a starting five great great blessings uh my financial advisors wouldn't like

02:40recommend it but it's like the greatest thing in my life so anyways long story long you never know

02:47exactly what's happening i think there are some there are some interesting uh politics in russia

02:58uh there's some leadership over there that loves their hockey so i just god forbid i hope it's

03:06nothing to do like that um but if it's an option for him to earn a living that's better than i think

03:15he wants to stay here i think he wants to stay in new york i think he wants to definitely stay in

03:19the nhl i think he wants to try to i also have zero doubt that if the rangers aren't going to pay him

03:24what he wants somebody else will because i mean maybe not exactly what he wants but i mean there

03:30were so many teams the avalanche the islanders he left money on the table on long island to come to

03:37manhattan you know like there are there are teams that i think will keep him in the national hockey

03:44yeah there's not there's a lot of teams so yeah is it a is it a i guess is it a negotiating tactic

03:52his response anyway yeah and he is not a dumb guy he is a smart fella very very very so kudos to

04:05you for getting in there and asking him to argue yeah yeah i i thank rg.org for the assist um but

04:14yeah i i we were we were kind of giggling because you know i caught him a little off guard it was

04:19after a game but it was after a four-point game and i'm writing a column about how

04:24geez the rangers are gonna be in trouble if they don't have this guy next year um so yeah it had to be

04:32asked and you know no stone left unturned over here at the new york post there you go