Mikhail Kravets: “Avangard’s unfortunate mistake in the second period gave Ak Bars” air “

Thursday, January 8, Omsk hockey players lost to Ak Bars 2:3 in overtime in a meeting of the KHL championship. Head coach of the “hawks” Mikhail Kravets assessed the meeting, noting that the quality of the team’s game was not bad.

The mentor also appreciated the overall results of the home series of three games. The match with the “leopards” finished it.

– In terms of the content of the game, I think we also succeeded. A very good first period, the beginning is a complete advantage over a good strong team that is trying to score points after defeats.

In the second period, an unfortunate mistake gave the opponent “air”, because of this he came to life, began to play differently. We have no right to make such mistakes. Somewhere, perhaps, we were unlucky, in overtime luck and skill were on the side of Ak Bars.

But the guys tried, fought, worked. Of course, I wanted to win today, to get more points. Now we will prepare, gain strength.

Summing up the overall results of the home series, I will say this: we always try to play to win, if on points, then we took 50% of the possible. For travel, this ratio is good, for games at home – not so much. So, of course, we wanted to get more points, I hope that we will have a rest, we will work out, the guys will gain additional emotions, we will get to work.

– Today, Semyon Astashevsky played for the first time, how would you rate him?

– The link played well with him, Semyon, in principle, did not fall out of it, in general, we take him “on a pencil”, he will train with us. The only thing is that they have matches in the VHL on December 10 and 12, and then, I think, we will also involve them in training.

We previously wrote that Avangard lost to Salavat Yulaev.