Penza, 20 February 2012. PenzaNews. The actions spent by Youth hockey league, urged to involve people not only on concrete matches, but also basically to interest in their sports. Such opinion of news agency "PenzaNews" was expressed by chief executive MHL Alexey Antonov. “I am sure that youth hockey is not only sport, but it is also a show, besides as on ice arena people can find interesting companies to spend time with,” the spokesman said.

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An example is a match for “Generation Cup” which will take place in Penza on forthcoming Thursday, February 23.

“It’s a great event and holiday, including for those who will see hockey for the first time. Probably, someone will come to look the performance of rock musician Arthur Berkut and will watch also a match and become a fan of local team and the number of people interested in sport will increase,” Alexey Antonov underlined.

The chief executive of Youth hockey league appreciated sports-entertainment complex “Diesel-Arena” where for “Generation Cup” will take place for the first time.

“I don’t want even to compare it with stadium “Temp” because there was, of course, a nightmare earlier. It was even not last and the century before last. Speaking about “Diesel Arena” I can only say about it in superlative degree. It is a modern, good skating rink. I’m sure that the city was worth it for a long time,” the spokesman summarized.