The Kyiv club is in second place after the starting rounds
Forward Falcon Sergey Babinets spoke about the features of the new hockey season in Ukraine.
“A feature of the current championship will be pauses associated with air raid alerts. One of these in Kalush during the match with the Dnieper lasted more than an hour. Even before the championship, Dmitry Nimenko said: “If you sit in hockey equipment for an hour somewhere in the basement, you can no longer go out on the ice. The legs will simply become numb and it will be difficult to scatter.
“We all have enough experience. We can predict how we will feel after an hour of downtime. Therefore, being in a bomb shelter, they told the younger guys to tune in to hard work immediately after returning to the ice. I think we were better prepared for the return after this pause psychologically. Yes, right after the update of the game we missed a fast puck, but in general, this pause was more useful for us than for our opponents. Dnipro has a younger team. The guys there are not yet ready for such features.”
“In general, we are all psychologically difficult. Every morning I wake up with a pain in my heart. And I fall asleep too. How can one be calm, realizing that dozens, and maybe hundreds of our compatriots die every day, entire cities are collapsing with this Russian cholera? It is not easy to abstract and concentrate only on sports. Not only to me, but to all Ukrainians.”
“I think that hockey players of all Ukrainian teams are now training and playing with a stone in their hearts. Take the Attic. He spent a long time in Kharkov, which was under constant bombardment. Moreover, one day Volodya was walking down the street with his wife. Not far from them, at that moment, a large air projectile exploded. Fortunately, Vladimir and Yana remained unharmed, but after such stress, it’s hard to move away, you see. However, we must all be resilient. In general, I am proud of the endurance of Ukrainians, of our entire nation. Russians wanted to take away our usual course of life. But we do not kill ourselves to spite them – we play hockey, football, our cities, albeit to the accompaniment of explosions, are fully functioning. Nobody will break us.”
Recall that Sokol got a strong-willed victory over the Dnieper (6:4) in the match of the next round of the Ukrainian Hockey Championship.
The Kievans managed to make a comeback, losing in the third period 2:4. Double on the account of Sokol striker Sergei Babinets. Note that the match in Kalush was interrupted for an hour due to air raid warning.
After 4 matches, Sokol takes the 2nd place in the standings of the Ukrainian championship, three points behind Kremenchug.
Source: Sportarena
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