Mikhail Kravets: Avangard conceded two unfortunate goals in the end

Saturday, October 15, HC Avangard at home lost on shootouts to Admiral 3:4. And about. Head coach of the “hawks” Mikhail Kravets appreciated the meeting, where our team was leading in the score, but let the opponent equalize it.

According to the coach, Avangard had a good two periods in the match against the Primorye team, which was missed by the third one.

“A very difficult game, three completely different periods. The first and second are completely behind us: a good game, a lot of chances. It is necessary not to waste these moments, but to try to score, into an empty net – such one hundred percent scoring chances. It is necessary, of course, to finish off the opponent. And the third period … It seems that they fought, they seemed to try, but not as much as necessary in order to win in such games, ”Kravets said.

He added: in the end, the team conceded two unfortunate goals, precisely because of a flaw. That’s why we got this result. In overtime, the opponent even played stronger somewhere, and the Siberians created very few dangerous moments.

“And shootouts are already a skill. Here the skill of the players, the skill of the goalkeepers decides. We are already training it, we need to train even more, ”the specialist also said.

Most importantly, it is better not to bring matches to such a score when the team wins with a score of, for example, 3:1. So the hawks will learn from such mistakes. We need to analyze them and go to the next match to prove that the loss was an unfortunate accident.

The journalists asked Kravets and more about overtime: Omsk residents didn’t “weave laces” in it, but ran ahead and rather didn’t create anything because of this.

“Of course, you have to keep the puck all the time to keep control. The only thing I can say is that ice, of course, is bad for everyone, but its quality also affects. I think that our guys also know how to do all this: if we hold 5 on 5, then we could hold 3 on 3, ”the mentor explained.

Somewhere the puck jumped off, somewhere an individual player made the wrong decision, the coach added. But this is all skill, which is also influenced by emotions – when the teams win 3-1, and then allow the score to be leveled.

As MK in Omsk already wrote, the bookmakers in this match more believed in the victory of “Avant-garde”.