Before “Torpedo » Alexei Kruchinin remembered the statement of the Czech hockey player Jaromira Jagra which reminded him of Game 3 of the Western Conference Semi-Finals series against SKA (0-4), where his team failed to score a single goal for the second time in the playoffs.
Torpedo lost in the third game of the second round of the Gagarin Cup (0-4). This is the second time that the Nizhny Novgorod team did not reach the opposing goal in this playoff. The first such match took place on March 6, when Torpedo lost to Dynamo in Moscow (0-3), but eventually won the series with Les Bleu et Blanc in six matches (4-2).
– What is the reason why you started the third game of the series unsuccessfully, losing the first period with a score of 0:2?
“I don’t even know what happened to us. It seems that we are performing at home, our stands. But on the road, we played in a completely different way. And now they looked shy, unfortunately. Received immediately minus two. In the second and third periods, they tried to fix something, created chances, but got caught on the counter-attacks. As a result – 0:4 on the scoreboard.
– What is the reason for such stupor?
I think it’s psychology. There are different times – the throw does not work or something else. But you have seen it yourself, some episodes defy explanation. In the second half, for example, Kirill Voronin misses an empty goal. But he is a good sniper. Did he suddenly forget how to hit the target? I do not think so.
Once I read Jagr’s wise phrase, it’s like the game “Torpedo”: “For so many years of my career, I was convinced that if the puck does not enter the goal, then it does not enter the goal.” Now, alas, she hasn’t come through the doors of SKA no matter what we do,” Kruchinin told .
The next game in the series is Wednesday, March 22. In case of victory, SKA will advance to the Western final – against the winner of the pair CSKA – Lokomotiv.
The fourth game of the ½ final of the Western Conference Final “Torpedo” – SKA will be held on March 22. Watch the live broadcast of the match on the federal channel, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites.
Source : MatchTV
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