The head coach “Torpedo” Igor Larionov announced that he would give most players on his team the day off Tuesday.
Torpedo lost on Monday S.K.A. in the third game of the second round of the Gagarin Cup with the score 0:4. The St. Petersburg club leads 3-0 in the best-of-four series.
“Detroit has never won the Stanley Cup. And so you and Vyacheslav Fetisov threw a banquet for the team. Everyone got drunk, unloaded, and that year you became champions. Perhaps in the “Torpedo” to offer an extraordinary psychological movement?
“You always look at who you have. That Detroit had a lot of playoff experience. Of course, rallying, a few conversations, small details help. You can touch any player, enter their soul and get the reserves that are left.
But at Torpedo, we decided that a large group of players would rest. We want them not to show up at the rink, but to breathe. Sometimes it works. And we think it will help the guys to be fresher in Wednesday’s game,” the correspondent quoted Larionov as saying.
The next match in the series will take place on March 22 in Nizhny Novgorod. “Torpedo” for the third time in history plays in the second round of the Gagarin Cup. And each time the Nizhny Novgorod team was knocked out of the playoffs: in 2012 – from Dynamo Moscow, in 2016 – from CSKA.
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