Attack “Spartacus” Ansel Galimov after defeating “Metallurgist” During the fourth match of the second round of the Gagarin Cup, he said that the “red and white” hockey players experienced psychological problems after the Crocus tragedy.
On Friday March 22 evening, terrorists opened fire on the Crocus town hall in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, where a concert by the group Picnic was to take place. The attack killed 139 people. The Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee has opened criminal proceedings regarding the terrorist attack.
On Tuesday, Spartak beat Metallurg at home with a score of 1:0. Galimov scored the only goal. After that, the series score was tied 2-2. The next match of the confrontation will take place in Magnitogorsk on March 28.
— Andrei Razin was offended that Metallurg was not allowed to play the fourth match of the series in Magnitogorsk. Due to the transfer, his team was forced to return home and return because they had no ice or hotel. Would the series be affected if Spartak had to play three out of four matches away?
— We have to think about the public. It is the most important. If the fourth game was played there, what would our fans say? Would we then play in front of empty stands? We play for the public. I’ll tell you a secret: we were told that we would play the fourth game at home anyway. We won’t go there until we play in front of our audience.
— An important point is that today the public was able to express their feelings after the terrible terrorist attack at the Crocus Town Hall: they hung a banner, organized an action “10 minutes of silence” and returned tribute to the memory of the victims. Was it important to do this here and not elsewhere?
“On behalf of the entire club, I would like to honor the memory of the victims. It is a great tragedy. When we were lying in the hotel before the match, we were reading these Telegram channels… Questions began in the team chat: “How to play? After a while we were told that there would be no match – wait, prepare according to the schedule. The next day we gathered here at Megasport and everyone said it would be a mistake to play.
— Do you have enough time to watch other episodes? There are a lot of feelings there. Is it because of the crossover playoffs?
— I have friends on certain teams, I follow these series. But I can’t isolate anyone. We need to ask the public after the season if they liked the crossover playoffs. For us as players…Today we are playing with Metallurg, we have never played with them in the playoffs before. Maybe the audience needs to adjust here. Here everyone is waiting for SKA, CSKA, and here is Magnitogorsk, ”reports the correspondent of , reporting Galimov’s words.
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