Ahead of Magnitogorsk “Metallurgist » Danila Yurov after the defeat against Avtomobilist in the fourth match of the Gagarin Cup semi-final series, he told how Ural found a way to turn the situation around.
On Tuesday, Avtomobilist defeated Metallurg on their ice in the fourth match of the Gagarin Cup – 5:3. In the first half, Zavarukhin’s team lost with a score of 0:3. Ural scored the winning goal 7 seconds before the end of the match.
— It’s rare to see in the playoffs that a team leads 3-0, but misses the victory. What happened?
— We probably had fights, because of which Avtomobilist wanted to turn the situation around. They partly succeeded. The technical staff immediately told us before the match not to get involved in this. But the emotions overwhelmed us. It happened like this. Well, let’s go home and win there.
— Roman Kantserov said on that the hosts were playing dirty in the backfield. Are you talking about that ?
– Well yes. We should have continued to play our hockey and not fall into the trap of the provocations they staged. And everything would be fine.
— Were you surprised when you saw that the Automobilist let Galkin in, and not Alikin?
“We didn’t pay attention to it.” Galkin came out and left quickly.
— Is it time to take an in-depth look at goaltending in the playoffs?
— Before the series, we certainly study them. For each goalkeeper, they sent us a video explaining how to score against him, what to do. As the series progresses, the goalkeeping coach approaches us, gives us advice, and also cuts the video. The work is still in progress and no one forgets about it,” Yurov told .
The score in the best-of-four series is 2-2. The fifth match will take place on April 11 in Magnitogorsk.
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