Chelyabinsk attacker “Tractors” Alexander Rykov said that the team’s head coach Alexei Zavarukhin encourages creative actions of hockey players on offense.
Based on the results of 63 matches of the Fonbet KHL Championship, Traktor scored 72 points and ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference standings.
— You said that Alexei Borisovich liberated the team, but hockey itself has changed. Do we really have the right to create in the offensive zone?
– Yes, our hands are free in attack, you can invent whatever you want. Alexey Borisovich does not forbid it, so we toss and turn.
— What is absolutely forbidden in an attack?
— Lose the puck on the blue line. In the attack zone you can invent things,” Rykov told Metaratings.ru.
This season, 18-year-old Rykov scored 8 points (6+2) in 26 KHL regular season games.
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