Mikhail Kravets: “Avangard played with a very serious team today”

On Wednesday, October 11, Avangard beat Metallurg 4:1. The meeting was appreciated by the team’s head coach Mikhail Kravets

In particular, the mentor answered questions from the media about the majority and the fight between the “hawk” Roman Abrosimov and the Ural legionnaire Luke Johnson.

– Today we played with a very serious opponent, the leader of our conference. And this team plays quite well. I believe that we passed this test. They passed it perfectly. I’m glad that we won, I’m glad for the team that the faith of our fans was able to translate into success. Congratulations to them on their victory. And most importantly, despite the missed goal, the team continued to work. And complete the game task. Which brought success. That is, the collective game helped first of all. And the complete dedication of each player.

By the way, Roman Abrosimov also brought positive emotions to the public by giving battle to the visiting forward. And lifted the spirits of the whole team. In the fight he won in all respects (smiles).

– Today we managed to score once on the power play, which is already good. How do you plan to further improve this component and, taking into account the transfer of Ramil Saifullin to the VHL team, who is now specifically responsible for it at the headquarters?

– Of course, we will still try to strengthen the majority, so we are working on this element in training. And the minority too. We train especially during pre-game sessions. General manager Anton Alekseevich Kuryanov now helps with coaching work on the majority, plus Andrei Podkonitski is responsible for this at the headquarters.

– After the last unsuccessful match, what did you manage to change and how to cheer up the players?

– Did you manage to change it? Firstly, the players were rested. We switched to our native time zone. Plus, there were two training sessions that brought the guys to their senses and allowed them to prepare for this game.

That is, this is both recovery and proper training.

– Demchenko didn’t play in goal today because he was sick, or is this a rotation?

– He’s training, he’s healthy, we’re preparing him for the next matches, looking for options to improve his game.

– How would you rate Proskuryakov’s play?

– Well, since we released him after the last game, when he worked great, it means there is an opportunity for him to play, I think competition is a good thing. She helps all the kids develop. Ilya played very well.

Previously, we gave the opinion of the Hawks forward about the game with Traktor Ivan Igumnov.