Tampa Bay Lightning forward Vladislav Namestnikov was recently interviewed by Marat Safin. You can read the original article in Russian at Sport-express.ru.
This Russian-to-English translation was provided by Igor Nikonov (@nikonov_igor).
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Safin: Tampa’s management tried to do everything to save the team last summer. The result of this season was expected to be at least as good as the previous ones.
Namestnikov: All season long we tried to play as best we could, even when nothing worked at all.