Kazan hockey playersAkbarsa “during the KHL regular season game against”Sochi “relaxed, believing victory would be theirs,” the two-time Olympic champion told “” Alexander Kojevnikov .
On Wednesday, Ak Bars lost to Sochi at home with the score 1:3. Kazan suffered their first defeat in the current league and with 4 points after three matches they continue to lead in the Eastern Conference standings, Sochi with 2 points is in the 9th row in the West.
– An unpleasant defeat, of course, for Ak Bars. But Kazan won two matches and won with equal confidence, showing great hockey. Zinetula Bilyaletdinov is a very experienced coach. It was not him who let himself go, but the team relaxed. The players thought victory would come by itself, but Sochi punished them. In a good way, with such a lineup, Kazan shouldn’t make any mistakes and should only win. But nothing serious happened. All the most interesting will start in the playoffs, that’s where Ak Bars will have games to kill, – Kozhevnikov told .
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