Mikhail Kravets: “Avangard was close to a perfect game today”

On Tuesday, October 25, Omsk hockey players defeated Barys on their ice in the KHL championship match with a score of 6:0. And about. Avangard head coach Mikhail Kravets appreciated the meeting and noted that his players did a lot this time.

In the first period, as the mentor explained, the Omsk team could score more than two goals, but they tried to play more beautifully, somewhere this led to an excessive pass.

– Our team played a good game, congratulations to everyone on the victory, everyone worked great for 60 minutes. Barys is not an easy opponent, he is higher than us in the table. Is that only he does not play very well away. He has more wins at home. But in any case, our players spent a lot of energy today to defeat this opponent.

They kept the puck well, there were many successful actions. And the completion of the attacks was at the highest level. Plus, our goalkeeper kept the score. Naturally, this helps the team to play. Everyone played 200%.

Small flaws, of course, still were. But the guys quickly corrected them, no one backed to their goal, everyone played at speeds, tackles. Don’t let your opponent breathe. It is important. So it could be close to the ideal game, but still there were small errors. But we can fix it all.

In the first period, the impression that they could not score more could appear, because on the contrary, at some points they wanted to score more beautifully. They gave an extra pass, but it was inaccurate somewhere, so there was no completion. The guys, I think, had a good confidence that they would definitely win. And they completed their moments at a high level.

Would you like to always see such a game in attack? As the saying goes, it always starts with protection. And it was precisely the selection of the puck, the transfers of the defenders, the opponent, the fact that they did not immediately throw it out of the zone, namely, they helped each other, with the whole link, to select the puck, give it to the partner, get out of pressure. It worked out well. Due to this, counterattacks were also created, it turned out very quickly to move into a foreign zone.

Previously we have reportedthat Avangard defeated Barys.