Former Deputy General Manager of “The Admiral” Kamil Hajiyev in an interview with said that in the series of the first round of the Gagarin Cup between S.K.A. and MinskDynamo “The factor of psychology can affect.
The first round of the Gagarin Cup begins on Wednesday. SKA and Dynamo will start the series in St. Petersburg. Each playoff goes up to four wins. According to the results of the regular season, SKA became the first in the Western Conference, Dynamo – the eighth.
– Initially, on the emotions, I thought that this series could be a rout. But I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the inhabitants of Minsk do not have a limit of legionnaires. There are quite clever foreigners. And the playoffs are a special story for them.
And imagine if Dynamo won one of the two matches in St. Petersburg. And then SKA comes to Minsk, gets there and the series score becomes 2-1. So what will start? It’s true, in SKA they start to get very nervous. We all know there is a very ambitious coach, Roman Rotenberg. He’s unlikely to accept a single SKA defeat with absolute calm. This is where psychology can play a role. It’s Tampa’s syndrome of 2019, when it broke all regular season records but met Columbus in the first round.
Although this is only one of the scenarios. And in the end, I am definitely betting on the passage of SKA. But I think there will be no direct withdrawal from Dynamo Minsk here,” Gadzhiev told .
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