Former head coach of Avangard Mikhail Kravets in an interview with , he said he was surprised by the club captain’s comments Damira Sharipzianova about how the Omsk team might perform in the KHL playoffs.
“Avant-garde” On March 19, he announced the termination of the contract with Kravets and Sergei Zvyagin was appointed on an interim basis and led the team permanently on April 1. Avangard finished their performance in the Gagarin Cup this season, losing in the second round to Yaroslavl Lokomotiv with a score of 3–4.
— Has it ever happened to you that the players themselves decide something in the locker room?
– No, no, everything was fair with us. They came to see me, we spoke face to face. We didn’t have any crazy situations when the players were in control. Although Damir Sharipzyanov’s interview surprised me when he told that for some reason we stopped playing according to Bob Hartley’s system.
– Well, that’s just a statement of fact.
– It still looks funny. We discussed all plans and I was always ready to listen to the opinion of any player on our team. And so much so that I stood up and slammed the door in front of management, it never happened.
Moreover, Damir also noted that we would have won the series against Magnitogorsk in 2022 if two Finnish defenders had not left: Ville Pokka and Oliver Kaski. But I will say now: maybe we would have overtaken Lokomotiv now if Sergei Tolchinsky and Arseniy Gritsyuk had not left us? — Kravets said for .
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