Monday “Torpedo » was beaten by «Dynamo in Moscow (0-3) and is now inferior in the series of the starting round of the playoffs to Fonbet of the KHL championship with a score of 1-2. Each series of the Gagarin Cup goes up to four wins.
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Why hockey, in my opinion, is losing its audience – and in a city like Moscow, where 15-20 million people live, it would be possible to fill the arena with 12,000 spectators. We’re talking about those aspects of the game that give fans food for thought to come back to hockey. You can close, play strictly – and then we will have 5-6 thousand spectators coming in stable. But these are half-empty stands. I remember when New Jersey won the Stanley Cup in 1995. There, 6-8 thousand fans came to the stadium. And in Detroit, there were 20,000 people at every game.
It suggests that people need emotions, a performance. Yes, you can lose, and Detroit couldn’t win for 42 years to become champions. But the philosophy changed and we made sure the team started playing good hockey. Yes, with errors, and he was a little different from the others. But it allowed us to take a step forward and win the Stanley Cup.
Moscow is also eager for actors and shows. People want to watch hockey, tell their friends and colleagues about it. The game should be interesting. It doesn’t matter if it’s the regular season or the playoffs, where the systems are fighting for survival. But I would like to see the show. Then I don’t see any problem bringing that game back to where we had it at my age or where it is today in the NHL.
And it’s not just the economy and ticket prices. A fan comes for a good performance – and when he sees it, he will come back, trust me. And he will invite friends with him, he will take the children. The rest requires patience.
Arbitration should also be involved in this process. It is important to feel the thread of the game so as not to break certain things during the game. I don’t want to go back to the times when replays are studied for 15 minutes and then the goals are not counted. There’s a lot of everything here, and it also affects when you kill all the rhythm and the team loses the chance to win the game. There are many aspects that we can bring to the general discussion in order to make the game spectacular even in the playoffs,” Larionov told reporters.
There were 8,831 spectators in the match between Dynamo and Torpedo in Moscow.
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KHL. Playoffs
Dynamo (Moscow) – Torpedo (Nizhny Novgorod) – 3:0 (0:0, 2:0, 1:0)
Goals: Igumnov, 27:58. Muranov, 31:46. O’Dell, 41:09.
Source : MatchTV
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