Moscow “Spartacus” has already started playing another hockey, but there’s not enough time to rebuild before the KHL playoffs start, Red-Whites’ interim head coach says Alexei Zavarukhin after the defeat in the Moscow derby with Dynamo.
On Tuesday, Spartak lost to Dynamo at home – 2:3 in the Fonbet KHL Championship game. In the last eight meetings, the Red-Whites have lost seven times. Spartak started the season under Boris Mironov, he was replaced by Igor Grishin, who resigned in early February. At 5 games from the end of the regular season, Spartak is in 9th place in the Western Conference table, three points behind Dynamo Minsk, which is in 8th place.
“We connected for the derby, we gave everything, but it still didn’t work out,” Zavarukhin quotes “”. We are not satisfied with the result.
– Spartak found themselves in a difficult situation. Do you have the strength to get out of it?
There are strengths, but there is not enough time for restructuring. The guys understand that we started playing a different type of hockey. But there is no time.
Was there time for experimentation before the start of the playoffs?
– We had Mironov’s hockey, there was Grishin’s hockey. Which one suited you best?
– Probably, all fans would have been happy with the one in which Spartak would have reached the playoffs.
— We try to do that, to introduce innovations, to make the game easier, without the cuts that we had before.
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