Head Coach “Metallurgy” Andrei Razin believes it is stupid to blame the goalkeeper for all the team’s problems Ilya Nabokov with whom Magnitogorsk won only two matches.
On Monday, Metallurg lost at home to Spartak Moscow in the FONBET KHL championship match with a score of 3:4. With the score at 4:1, Razin replaced Nabokov with Nikita Podskrebalin.
“The game was good, it was a good game from us, the guys showed character. In nine minutes of the second period, they had 20 shots. But that happens. Not everything worked out in terms of content, but we pulled ourselves together and were able to endure it. That doesn’t mean we have a bad majority, but something is missing.
— Does Nabokov suffer from sophomore syndrome?
– He has only two victories… Well, look, we played the last three games, let’s say, with an improved, but not optimal, lineup. Of these three, we won two. Before that, we played without four leading players. If we recall last season, this is the same Spartak, which played for some time without Morozov and Loktionov. As far as I remember, they did not have a center. Well, if we remove Zernov and Kantserov now, we will have a completely different team. We had a different team at the beginning of the season. With their arrival, we began to play better. Vovchenko, now and in the preseason, are two different players. Blame Nabokov for all the sins… If the respected Roman Borisovich (Rotenberg) were sitting, he would say that this is one of the main players of our hockey. Everything is fine with him, it is simply impossible to defeat everyone and everything with such a composition. I know that now the arrows will fly at me again, but I give examples of what would happen if the main players were removed from all teams. Today we played better in all respects, but we lost. The situation is difficult, but it was worse before. A little luck and everything will be fine.
— Spartak finished last season with you in the playoffs. Have they seen any changes in the game since then?
— Spartak was more serious in the playoffs, I remember the second game. Today, but the team is good and fast. They pass the midfield well, play passes, are excellent players. God willing, let me play with them again.
— Did you feel that Ilya Nabokov should be eliminated after the third goal?
— It was already the end of the second half. Nikita Podskrebalin was also cold, so they held on, “Razin was quoted as saying by the correspondent.
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