“After the third goal, they fell apart completely”: Vadim Yepanchintsev commented on the loss of Khabarovsk “Amur” to “Torpedo”

Unfortunately for the Khabarovsk team, the game ended in a defeat with a score of 6:1

After victory over the Chinese “dragons”, the “Tigers” came to Nizhny Novgorod in the most fighting state of mind, it seemed that the team had found its game and would now continue to score points. Unfortunately, “Torpedo” is not the opponent with whom you can relax. Aggressive, fast team that does not forgive mistakes.

Actually, the rout turned out to be very revealing until the 45th minute, “Amur” still resisted, but after the fourth puck into its own net, it finally “floated”. Mistakes rained down and hopes that the team could win back – collapsed. The last two goals were a logical result of the Tigers’ morale on the court.

As for the game itself, the coaching staff of the Khabarovsk team in Nizhny Novgorod decided not to make significant changes to the starting lineup, but legionary Janis Kalninsh took the place at the Amur goal instead of the proven Yevgeny Alikin. Is it good or bad? If you look at the result – so-so, but on the other hand, Alikin cannot always stand at the gate. And in fact, Janis only in the first period reflected 13 shots on his own goal, making some very good saves. By the way, Dmitry Lobeznikov also finished the match, who also failed to get away dry.

The first puck flew into the gates of “Amur” already at 1 minute of the match. 31 seconds after the starting whistle, Mikhail Orlov shot from a long distance and scored. Khabarovsk also had a chance, but they missed it. Nevertheless, the “tigers” did not give up and continued to attack, trying to gain a foothold in the opponent’s zone. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. Realization of the moments let me down a lot. Although the first and second periods “Cupid” showed a good game. Even despite the puck missed at the 27th minute from Nikolay Kovalenko.

Even with the start of the third period, the result was still unclear. At the 44th minute, Yaroslav Likhachev returns Amur to the fight. But already in the 46th minute after Kirill Voronin’s goal, Torpedo regained an advantage of two goals, and then in the 51st minute Mark Marin brought it to three goals – 4:1 in favor of the hosts.

After that, “Amur” practically lowered the sticks. At the 54th minute, Torpedo scores the fifth goal in the majority, at 56 minutes Nikita Shavin puts an end to this confrontation. The result – 6:1 in favor of the Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo” and Amur’s second defeat in the beginning of the season.

“I want to say that before the third goal there was an equal game, double-edged, good moments from both sides. The only moment is if we have a player who doesn’t hit the puck and doesn’t shoot – such realization of moments is depressing. After the third goal, there was already one team Unfortunately, they fell apart completely. At the end of the third period, “Torpedo” dominated everything. I think that these micro-moments, moments and lost. Well, the opponent’s goalkeeper played great, left the team in the game, we, unfortunately, conceded two goals, as it says “easy”. Every goal is the result of some mistake, but, probably, they could have helped out in this situation, the goalkeeper could have played better and the result would have been different. As for why we did not take a timeout after the missed third puck then the game was double-edged. We had chances, the opponent had chances and saw the state of the players, so they didn’t consider it necessary. Did the first goal scored correct the game plan? After the first goal, they began to open up more, leave pain less space for the opponent, and you see the result, “said Vadim Yepanchintsev head coach of HC Amur.

The Torpedo mentor came to the press conference with a salad. Natural salad in a container. According to him, it is this kind of nutrition that allows his team to run fast.

“The green vector goes into motion,” he said, smiling. Igor Larionov, head coach of HC Torpedo. – “Although it’s too early to say, there is no euphoria, it’s just a fact that we are changing the culture of food, changing the culture of food, rest, routine and attitude in general to the outside world. As for the game, I wanted to thank the opponent that despite the score .. “The team is quite interesting and not the easiest one to play with. In such matches, character and patience are shown and experience is gained. When you have to play that hockey, no matter what, that keeps the audience in the stands and gives them confidence that the team is moving in “The guys played the match very strong and after the game we have a tradition – we give the helmet to the best player and today it was very difficult to choose. Today the team was the star of the match. What we want to achieve from the guys. When the team plays and the result depends on everyone. The guys are growing up, the guys are starting to feel the taste for the game, but this is only the beginning, only the second game, so I don’t really want to say a lot of enthusiastic words, I just want to thank them for dedication, for the hockey that was shown today. It is always very important to start well, we were talking with the coaching staff the other day that we have returned to our history of our hockey, to our top five. When we played in CSKA, we had the task of scoring a goal in the first period, no matter what minute it was. Until there is a whistle, we did not leave the ice. It was ours, such a secret from CSKA – to send a message to the opponent that it would not be easy today. Naturally, such a start, such a quick goal, and the goal was very strong, gives the guys a big boost of confidence so that we can move and play more liberated, more combinational, more collective. What we received today. We were upset when we lost to Metallurg, but in terms of the game and in terms of creativity, it was a good game, which carried over to the game against Amur.”

Amur will play the next match in Magnitogorsk with the local Metallurg on September 8. Then the Khabarovsk team will return home.

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