The skill level of Kazan players “Ak Barca “allows them to get a good result in the KHL playoffs. The team has serious potential, but it needs to come together,” the hockey pundit said. Leonid Weisfeld .
Ak Bars is seventh in the KHL Eastern Conference with 51 points after 45 games. On December 27, the club announced the appointment of Zinetula Bilyaletdinov as the team’s head coach until the end of the 2022/23 season. Ak Bars started the season under the leadership of Oleg Znark, after his departure the powers were temporarily transferred to Yuri Babenko.
– Will Ak Bars with its stellar line-up take off, as in 2005, in the first round of the playoffs?
– Such a scenario is not excluded. But I won’t be too surprised if Kazan players go far in the playoffs. Because Ak Bars is a qualified team in terms of composition, the potential is very high. They have, as Professor Preobrazhensky said, “devastation in their heads”. Why the team does not play – no one knows, including themselves. Kazan’s coaching staff, led by Bilyaletdinov, will not be changed until the end of the season. Moreover, now there are players so powerful that they themselves can come together and decide everything. They just need some kind of trigger,” Weisfeld said.
Source : MatchTV
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