Former SKA goalkeeper, bronze medalist of the USSR Championship, Sergey Cherkas is sure that in the series against Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo” viewers will see more attacking and combinatorial hockey than in games with Dynamo Minsk.
Earlier, SKA defeated Dynamo Minsk in the first round of the Gagarin Cup, and Torpedo beat Dynamo Moscow out of contention. Both series ended in six matches.
– We can congratulate Igor Larionov on a great season, a good team. We said that depending on the results of the playoffs, his work will be evaluated. So he showed that his team is on the right track, of quality, solid. They overtook Dynamo Moscow in the first round. Although it seemed to me that Nizhny Novgorod players were twice as eager to win as Dynamo players. But those are Dynamo’s problems. SKA’s rival is interesting, good, – RB Sport quote Cherkas.
– What kind of hockey will we see in this series?
– Completely different from the one that was in the series of SKA and Dynamo Minsk. There was a lot of fighting, too much even a dirty game. There will be technical, open hockey, lots of great combinations. I think it’s a big party for the fans, the series will decorate the playoffs. We are unlikely to see pragmatism, like, for example, Lokomotiv playing. There is a very closed hockey. But everyone has different systems. The most important is the result. We expect brilliant hockey. I would like to see what Larionov can oppose to Rotenberg’s headquarters. Because SKA is a powerful team now, it’s not so easy to hold them back.
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