Moscow”Dynamo “quietly defeat Nizhny Novgorod”Torpedo ” during the Fonbet KHL Championship playoffs, Russia’s honored coach Sergey Cherkas told RB Sport.
The playoffs start on Wednesday. Torpedo and Dynamo Moscow will start the series in Nizhny Novgorod on Thursday. Each playoff goes up to four wins.
– For me, the main surprise is that Spartak did not reach the playoffs, – says Cherkas. This team should play there. And the fact that the Chelyabinsk “tractor” did not reach the number of the eight strongest in the “East”. Also a good team, a good coaching staff. I don’t understand what happened to them, why the team was out of the playoff zone. Spartak is more or less clear: the mess with the coaches did not stabilize the squad and the game. The other teams won the right to fight for the Gagarin Cup.
– Admiral finally reached the playoffs, you congratulated him during the championship.
– I know Admiral Tambiev’s trainer well. Not surprised that his team is in the playoffs. We worked together at Dynamo Petersburg. Tambiev is a strong coach, he does not set other tasks for the team, except the maximum. Requires players to complete a game task, so I don’t think Salavat will be able to simply defeat the Vladivostok team. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Admiral passes the first round.
– Who can be called the favorite of the playoffs for the game that its participants showed in the championship?
– All commands are generally understandable. The only predictable pair for me: Dynamo – Torpedo in the West. I think the Muscovites will calmly go further. The top four in the Western Conference is clear. But in the East there are more unpredictable stories.
– But Torpedo was rented during the season, they said that Igor Larionov gave them modern hockey. Moreover, they bypassed Dynamo following the results of the championship.
– I think the playoffs will give an assessment of the work of Igor Larionov. The team is building, young, interesting, perky, but the last matches of the championship have shown that all is not as fabulous as it seems. There is little optimism ahead of the duel with Dynamo. “White-blue”, on the contrary, in my opinion, confidently advances towards its goal (“Torpedo” has lost the last four matches in the championship. – approx.).
– Does SKA have a better chance of winning the Gagarin Cup this season?
– SKA won the championship – this is also not so simple and important from the point of view of psychology. The main matches, of course, ahead. But it is believed that the army team will do better than in previous seasons.
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