Before “Avant-garde » Nikolai Prokhorkin said that the Omsk team returned to the game plan established by the former head coach Bob Hartley .
On Thursday, Avangard defeated visiting Lokomotiv with a score of 3:2 in the sixth game of the second round of the KHL playoffs. Prokhorkin scored the winning goal in a 5-on-3 match. Avangard won the Gagarin Cup under Hartley in 2021.
— In the first half, we missed a goal at the end, but that didn’t break us. We managed to force ourselves and come back from 0:2. It’s expensive against such a team.
— Do you feel like time is working for you? Over the course of the series, you rebuilt the game system when Sergei Zvyagin led Avangard.
— Penultimate, a lot of guys played according to this system under the coach. And this system won the team the Gagarin Cup in 2021. This is nothing new for us.
— What is the most important thing in the seventh game of a series?
– Simply win. Our tasks have not changed, we have no room for error. There is a next game and we have to win it. So we start from the first victorious match.
— Why did your line play so effectively?
– I don’t know. Our efforts were the same as before. Lokomotiv just didn’t allow us to do that, but today we had a little more space and we created chances because of that.
— Are you surprised that Lokomotiv started playing with the puck less? In the first matches of the series, everything was different.
– That’s true, and for us it was a problem. But we analyze the opponent and we change a little.
— What did you discuss in front of the “5 against 3” majority?
“I didn’t even immediately understand that we had to play five against three. It’s a bit of a chaotic moment. We have just reminded that we must do all our work.
— What can you say to Omsk fans?
— Many thanks to everyone who came to Yaroslavl – we had great support in a noisy stadium. We clearly heard our fans. We are all waiting for our beloved fans for the seventh match in Omsk.
— Two clubs from the Eastern Conference reached the semi-finals, the third leads 3-2 in the series with Spartak, you took the matter to the seventh game. It turns out that the East is cooler than the West?
– To be honest, I have no idea. I don’t even have a clue about this. This is exactly how these playoffs are going, ”reports a correspondent, reporting Prokhorkin’s words.
The score in the best-of-four series is 3-3. The seventh match will take place on Saturday in Omsk.
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