Reed Boucher: “Avangard” skated well today and kept the puck at even strength.”

On October 11, Avangard played at home in the KHL championship against Magnitogorsk and won 4:1. Hawks forward Reed Boucher also gave an assessment of the meeting in an exclusive commentary for MK in Omsk.

According to the player, although there are still flaws in Avangard’s actions, overall the match was a success for him.

– We still have something to work on in the formation during the power play, it is clear that some aspects need to be improved. But in the 5-on-5 game we skated great, kept the puck well, we need to continue in the same spirit and then there will be success.

– Remember how you scored your own goal.

– There was an excellent pass from Tkachev, I threw the puck and it flew in.

– At the end of the match, the opponent put especially hard pressure, tried to win back, including storming with six of them. How disturbing and difficult was this segment?

– I personally was almost not nervous. Because such situations happen often. This is not the first and not the last time. But in this case, you need to remain calm, guard the opposing players, and block shots if necessary. I think we have succeeded here.

– It turns out that we missed out first, but in the end we won. How important is it that you managed to bounce back and still achieve success?

– It’s always nice to win, winning is always great, especially on your own ice. The opponent scored a slightly strange goal, but we weren’t upset or panicked at all. We entered the second period fully charged and scored our good goals.

We previously wrote how the head coach of Avangard assessed the meeting Mikhail Kravets.

In the remaining matches of this day, Sibir lost in shootouts to Traktor 4:5, Barys also beat Dynamo (Moscow) 3:2 in shootouts, Neftekhimik defeated Vityaz 3:0, Torpedo in the away team won against Severstal 4:3.

In three more games, the results are as follows: Spartak – CSKA 5:3, Kunlun – Dynamo (Minsk) 0:4, SKA – Lokomotiv 2:3.