Former director of Traktor Andrei Balandin believes that Alexei Zavarukhin coped with his task at the Chelyabinsk club and earned the right to remain head coach for another season.
Zavarukhin led the team during the season, replacing Anvar Gatiyatulin as head coach. “Tractor” In the semifinals of the KHL championship playoffs, Fonbet lost to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the series with a score of 0–4.
— My opinion is this: Zavarukhin fulfilled his task. In a difficult situation he received a team, but it reached the playoffs and played successfully, not counting the last matches. I believe the coaches and management managed to get everything out of this team. It was impossible to jump higher, that was the limit, as the matches with Lokomotiv showed. Overall, well done, everyone did a great job. It’s up to management to decide whether they will keep Zavarukhin. We do not know the club’s plans. The leaders do not say whether the goal will be to win the Gagarin Cup and whether the team will be strengthened for this. Therefore, we can give Zavarukhin another season to work and monitor him.
The only thing I didn’t like was when he started bullying Maxim Shalunov. It’s kind of baby talk. Zavarukhin does not like this act at all. Vladimir Plyushchev rightly said that a head coach should not behave like this. Where have you seen such statements from Bilyaletdinov, Belousov or Krikunov? As a young specialist, Zavarukhin should turn to the masters. There is no solidity there yet. This moment erased all the positive things Zavarukhin had accomplished this year. A coach should not say that,” quotes RB Sport Balandin.
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