former director”Tractor Andrei Balandin, in an interview with RB Sport, criticized the work of the Chelyabinsk hockey club’s system this season.
The day beforepolar bears lost to the Yugra Mammoths in the first round of the MHL playoffs. Previously”Helmet ” in the VHL lost to Rubin with a score of 0:4 in the series. At the same time, Traktor failed to qualify for the Gagarin Cup, finishing ninth in the East.
– Everyone repeats that Chelyabinsk is a hockey city. Where are the playoff teams? Complete failure of the entire system. “Chelmet” immediately flew out of the playoffs, the “Polar Bears” played a little better, at least they brought him to the fifth game of the series, and “Tractor” did not even get there. This shows that everything in the club’s system must be radically changed. People have been working here for a long time, but there are no results. They do not correspond to modern hockey. Players don’t grow, get lost, leave town. Coaches have to be changed everywhere – at Traktor, Chelmet, Polar Bears and the hockey school. This should be done by the general manager, so we expect action from Alexei Volkov,” says Balandin.
– Do you think Anvar Gatiyatulina in Traktor should also be fired?
– For the first time I see when the head coach was left after failing to complete the task for the season. It is a paradox. The team is mid-budget, but did not make the playoffs. It was funny when, at the final press conference, the journalists started to be led by the nose. They said they could name the reasons for the defeats only after analysis. The head coach was usually required to submit a report on the work done. And the management should have analyzed and drawn conclusions. But why was there no comment from either the governor or the vice-presidents of the club? After all, the money from the budget is spent on the club, which is snatched from improvement, medicine, etc.
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