The head coach “Dynamo » Alexei Kudashov After the victory over Severstal in the KHL championship match, Fonbet said that Cherepovets and Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo were troublesome opponents for the Moscow team.
On Wednesday, Dynamo beat Severstal at home with a score of 3:2 (penalty shootout).
– Start – removal and implementation. But they got involved over time and made changes. We have to thank the team for their character.
— Didn’t it seem like Dynamo had been knocked down at the start of the match? In the first half, we created almost no chances. Doesn’t that bother you? The team is experienced.
— We didn’t create a single chance in the first half. According to our calculations, only two shots were fired. But we learn, we draw conclusions.
— You went to three lines in the third period, it worked again. Are you happy that this is paying off?
– I’ll explain to you why it works. The rhythm is different. Many hockey players do not complete their time. When they play on three lines, they start to feel more comfortable. Those who didn’t play were eliminated by the entire minority at the end. The others have settled into a rhythm that produces results.
— Paquette didn’t convert the opportunity in overtime, but you let him go in a shootout. Have you decided to support him?
— In the second half, he didn’t score a good chance either. Hockey players have periods where there is no game. If Paquette was a rookie and we didn’t know his level, then we could talk about something. And so, we understand that if things don’t go well for him now, there will come a time when everything will come back.
— Can we say that Torpedo and Severstal are troublesome rivals for Dynamo?
— Probably, yes, we have two teams like that. They are not standard, they do a lot of non-standard actions. But in the championship, the teams take the keys from such opponents. Something new works first, then teams adapt. Now it doesn’t matter who you play with. Sometimes it’s easier to play with giants than with nominal underdogs.
— On your team, would a defender move the puck like Grudinin did during the first goal of the “blue and white”?
— I don’t want to condemn the philosophy of other teams. Coaches explain to their players that they play for fun, for themselves, for the public and for aesthetics. I don’t force defenders to throw, nor attackers to throw without looking. No team will win a game by playing defensively. Everyone is trying to control the puck and act offensively. They use different methods, but everyone understands that you can’t win if you stay in your zone.
– Nikonov played a good match, but his lack of restraint disappointed him again – he finally gave up. Can this be attributed to youth, a manifestation of character?
— There were no characters during the last deletion. I can’t say it’s youthful. Nikonov is a mature player, he understood what he was doing, ”reports the correspondent of , reporting Kudashov’s words.
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