Novosibirsk attacker “Sibir” Nikolai Prokhorkin after an away defeat against Dynamo Moscow, he said that the team does not yet have combined hockey, but head coach David Nemirovsky’s system is clear to the players.
On Monday, Siberia lost to Dynamo in Moscow with a score of 1:2 in the Fonbet KHL championship match. Prokhorkin did not show any effective actions. For Siberia, this defeat was the sixth in a row this season.
— Is it possible to say that Siberia does not play combined hockey, despite the fact that Nemirovsky’s invitation was associated precisely with this style of play?
— At this stage we don’t have combined hockey, but we need to improve a lot, the team knows that. If everyone gives their best on the ice, the game will be successful.
— Should we expect the appearance of offensive hockey in Sibir?
— Attacking hockey not only means a lot of goals, but also pressure from defenders. You have to put pressure, and we do it, we don’t go back on defense with the whole team, as much as possible we will put pressure on the opponent, so it’s also attacking hockey.
— How is your adaptation to the Nemirovsky system going?
— The system is clear to me. I’ve been playing a lot, so it doesn’t take me long to get used to the new demands. “I have heard the wishes of the coach and I am trying to fulfill his demands,” reports the correspondent of , reporting Prokhorkin’s words.
“Sibir”, having scored 17 points in 18 matches, occupies eighth place in the Eastern Conference standings.
Nemirovski took charge of Sibir in April shortly after it was announced that Andrei Martemyanov, who had led the team since 2021, had resigned from his position as head coach.
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