Mikhail Kravets: “Avangard” after Geraskin’s goal added everything and crushed the opponent.”

On Saturday, September 9, Avangard played with Barys on their ice in the KHL championship and achieved a 4:1 success. The meeting was appreciated by the head coach of our team, Mikhail Kravets.

As the coach noted, the team needed to score already in the first period.

– We played very well and had a positive attitude, we did a lot of work in the first period and made a lot of shots. But they didn’t, unfortunately. Need to score.

The second period was more difficult. The deletion, the missed goal – of course, all this affected the psychology. It’s good that we dealt with this, Geraskin scored a very good goal, after which the team directly added with their feet and head – everything they needed to add. And she simply crushed her opponent. In the future, everything went rationally.

Of course, we are happy with the victory, well done guys, good game, we made everyone happy. Two points are very important for us.

– Didn’t it seem that the first line did almost nothing in the first half of the meeting? If so, why might this be?

It seems to me that the first line always plays well. This is rather subjective for you. The most important thing is that I saw the desire of his players, they tried to create their own specific combinations. Somewhere, due to non-standard decisions, they may have lost the puck. But the most important thing is that they have a game, they play coherently as a unit. Each other.

– Avangard cannot yet play with the optimal lineup – Pyanov, Chistyakov and Telegin are out of the lineup. How soon can they come out?

– Vanya Telegin has a serious injury, but it should go away, maybe by the next match. While Pyanov and Chistyakov are still out on the ice, skating, Semyon is already stretching his arm, Valentin is not. So we can most likely wait for Telegin and Chistyakov, and only then Pyanov.

We previously reported in detail how The game between the Hawks and Barys took place.