Head Coach “Ak Barsa” Oleg Znarok summarized the match with Minsk “Dynamo” (3:2 OT) as part of the regular season Fonbet Championship KHL .
– It looks like the team is having a hard time getting into the zone for the most part. Players make passing errors on the blue line.
– We have already played so much majority, which is not going well, that, it seems to me, the players are already starting to worry. Here you need to calm down, if you were present at the training, you would see a different picture. In training, we play, and everything works out, but here, there is a kind of traffic jam. I already force myself to endure, sometimes I crack. I don’t know, with such masters they have to. We continue to work on it, the season is long, and the game in the majority will be a great help to us if we start to put in place. You have to score, that’s what these players are for.
– How do you like the emotional celebration of Alexander Radulov? Do you agree with him that the goal in the third period should have been scored?
– We looked again – the judges decided so. But Stas Galiev didn’t hit the keeper, he entered the square, but I can’t go anywhere, because he was pushed on the keeper. If the goalkeeper made a move towards him, collided with Stas, then the goal is canceled 100%. But he didn’t come out, Stas didn’t bother him, the defender pushed him there. Therefore, we would like to have some clarification for the future.
– More than five matches have passed, almost every one had new player combinations. Will this rotation continue?
– For instance?
– There are a number of players, for example Alexander Radulov, who played in the first link, then in the third link.
‘We don’t have the first, second and third link. We substitute ties for the opponent, in the last game with Dynamo we put the Dynyak-Voronkov-Safonov trio in the starting tie. Because we thought those healthy guys from the starting face-off would give the team momentum for us to start actively right away. There is no order of links, we all have the same links and each can give a result.
— How do the players react to the rotation?
– We haven’t changed three links for five games. The only thing we do is switch to a three-line game, when we have to pull matches if we see the players are physically ready for it.
– Can you describe why you got two different matches against Dynamo Minsk? What are you satisfied with in this game?
“First of all, we won. Today we played well in the second half, made a good overlap. Do you know what an overlay is? Overlapping is when you switch one link for another while holding the puck, and it turns out that our two links put pressure on an opponent’s link in the near zone. Everyone uses it, but not everyone succeeds, this time we did, unlike the first game.
– Do you manage to stabilize the moment with deletions?
– We have fines, apparently players want to invest money in the team fund. But it’s no longer funny, 8 minutes of erasures in the first period, it’s a lot, because we seem to start normally, we have the initiative, and then we play four. First, there may be injuries in the minority, because they throw decently there, and you have to selflessly catch up. Secondly, they are strengths – we have three deuces in defense, the load on them is very large. In the future, these players may not be enough for us, no matter how prepared we are, playing half the period in the minority, we lose a lot of strength, ”said the press service of Ak Bars , citing Znark.
In the next round, the club from Kazan will play away with Spartak, the meeting will take place on Sunday, September 18.
Source : MatchTV
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