“Kudashov makes Dynamo a simple game. I call it “Duborezovsky hockey” – Gennady Kurdin

first coach Nikita Kucherov And Nikita Gusev honored coach of Russia Gennady Kurdin compared styles of play “Torpedo” and Moscow “Dynamo” who met in the first round of the Gagarin Cup.

The series is now 1-1. The first game in Nizhny Novgorod was won by Dynamo (3:1), the second game was won by Torpedo (5:2). On Monday, Moscow will host the third match of this confrontation.

– Can Igor Larionov with his romantic hockey pass the playoffs?

– I once released Kucherov and Gusev, they were 16 years old. And my parents came to me, who don’t understand anything. And they started saying, “What did Kurdin teach them? Look, they’re playing kid hockey! In fact, hockey is child’s play! And now Kucherov and Gusev are still playing children’s hockey. One won two Stanley Cups, the other won the Olympics. Or look at Ozhiganov and Khusnutdinov.

Larionov also plays children’s hockey with Torpedo. That is, in Soviet hockey, which was taught to him from childhood. Unfortunately, we have begun to dominate Canadian hockey. Throwing the puck into someone else’s zone, fighting for it, vertical goal-to-goal play. And I always thought that hockey was a game, an improvisation, a justified risk. Why not? We were playing Soviet hockey. And they defeated everyone. Has Larionov found anything new? He gives the style he knows well himself.

Well, yes, times have changed, the mentality is different, people are different now. But the essential remains the same. The game must be played! And don’t drive the puck around corners. Like Bob Hartley defending hockey for us for so many years, when you’re not allowed to pass back. I understand Hartley led Avangard to the championship. But with such a budget…

– It turns out that Alexey Kudashov plays a different game in Dynamo? As they say, different styles have converged in this series.

– Kudashov makes hockey simpler. Throw-throw. I call it “Duborezovsky hockey”. He doesn’t need to learn, it’s easy. There he threw the puck out of the zone, then he threw the puck into the zone. And Larionov’s “Torpedo” – interaction, a safety net is needed. Because mistakes are bound to happen when you do anything. And in simplified hockey, there are fewer mistakes, it seems. And again, it’s not creation, there’s little creativity here. Throw the puck – and you are waiting for someone else’s mistake, the opponent’s puck jumps over the hook, or there will be an unexpected rebound from the board, – Kurdin told .

Watch live broadcasts of KHL matches on the federal channel and thematic channels of the holding, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru. On Monday, will show two matches – Siberia’s match with Avangard (from 3:25 p.m. Moscow time, continues right now), then Metallurg against Avtomobilist (from 5:45 p.m.).