Voinov on Larianovs Appointment: He Didnt Call Me to Join SKA

The defender of «Avangard,» **[Vyacheslav Voynov](https://www.example.com/tags/19059-vojnov/)**, commented on the appointment of **Igor Larionov** as the head coach of SKA.

«When I saw the news about Igor Nikolayevich taking over SKA, I sent him a message to congratulate him. However, he did not invite me to join the team, and there was no discussion,» Voynov’s words are quoted by «Soviet Sport.»

Voynov played for SKA from the 2015/2016 season through 2017/2018. In 2017, he won the Gagarin Cup with the Saint Petersburg club.

In June, the Board of Directors of HC SKA appointed Larionov as the head coach of the Saint Petersburg team. Last season, he served as the head coach of «Torpedo,» where the Nizhny Novgorod team finished in eighth place in the KHL’s Western Conference and lost in the first round of the Gagarin Cup to Yaroslavl’s «Lokomotiv.»