Former head coach“Avangard” Mikhail Kravets in an interview with he said that a year ago, during the first round against Siberia, they wanted to resign him.
On March 19, Avangard 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.
— It was said about you that some sort of meeting took place during the playoffs. You were asked to change the diagram – you silently got up and left the room. Was it like this?
“I swear on my health, my family, everything, that such a conversation never took place!” Management never came to me to tell me they didn’t like the system. And there were no such meetings.
At the same time, last season, after the first match of the series against Siberia (1:2 in extra time in Omsk), they also wanted to send me off. General manager Rashid Khabibulin defended me and we finally got the bronze medals,” Kravets told .
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