Former General ManagerAdmiral ” Ildar Mukhometov, in a conversation with , said that the success of the coach Leonida Tambieva in the Far Eastern club is due to the fact that he brought together players from the team he knew well.
The Admiral finished the regular season in seventh place in the Eastern Conference, and in the first round of the KHL playoffs they beat Salavat Yulaev Ufa (4-2 in the series) and will now face the Eastern leader. Ak Bars.
– Before this season, Tambiev himself recruited a team. He was given carte blanche to the admiral, and he himself collected the “infantrymen”, as I call them, with whom he worked together in St. Petersburg or “Saryarka”. Basically, they’re VHL guys. But Tambiev knows how to work with them and the players understand the coach’s demands. Therefore, everything worked. Whether Tambiev is able to work successfully in teams where good players are gathered is a big question.
– Now he is already “courted” at HC Sochi.
For now, it’s just a rumor. And then Sochi is a club where you can appear and go from there in two months. Although if young players from a well-known club are tested there again, then maybe Tambiev will succeed there. In the VHL, this coach achieved results, became a champion. The fact that Admiral has now beaten Salavat in the first round is also a result. The work is good, there are no questions,” Mukhometov told .
The first match of the series between Ak Bars and Admiral will take place on Thursday, March 16 in Kazan. Watch the live broadcast on the KHL channel starting at 7:15 p.m. (Moscow time), as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites.
Source : MatchTV
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