Former director “Tractors” Andrey Balandin said that he had complaints about the goalkeeper of the Chelyabinsk team Zachary Fucale .
— I like the changes in Traktor. They “gave birth” for a long time with the resignation of Anvar Gatiyatulin, suffered and invented a myth about the irreplaceability of people. And in the last few matches, the team has improved a lot. The content of the game is already starting to resemble real hockey and fans are interested in it. I love the dedication, the guys’ eyes light up. Hockey players are happy, Zavarukhin is happy, fans are happy. Absolutely everyone benefited from it. I have complaints about some players, but overall Traktor is on the right track. The team’s playoff chances are very good, but the fight is not over yet. We must continue in the same spirit.
— Complaints about experienced players?
— First of all, to goalie Zach Fucale. At first I had doubts about him, and they were not in vain. I’m watching him: he missed several goals in the nearest corner. This indicates a poor choice of position. A good goalkeeper shouldn’t miss goals like this, and what’s more, he’s also a foreign player. Anton Burdasov can sometimes give himself a bit of a break. I wish he would act with more dedication.
I would also like to see more performances from Mikhail Kotlyarevsky. He has a good activity, but for some reason he started to give up. To score, he must go to goal. There is desire, there is potential and the guy needs to open up. I also don’t like Traktor’s power play and generally in uneven lineups I need to refine it. So there is something to work on,” Balandin said, as quoted by RB Sport.
Traktor is seventh in the Eastern Conference standings with 35 points.
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