Ryan Spooner: Avangard failed to convert the chances they had

“Vanguard” September 11 conceded at home in the KHL championship match “Amuru” 1:5. After the game, forward Ryan Spooner, one of the authors of the passes for Vladimir Tkachev’s goal, which was the only one of the match for the Hawks, assessed the meeting in the locker room.

In particular, Ryan answered what became the main problem in the implementation of the majority in the first period.

– The fans were so surprised that they asked themselves in the stands, “what was that?” What’s happened?

– It was one of those matches where the rebounds were not for us, and many other little things too. In general, we had scoring chances, we just failed to convert them.

– Is it possible to say that one of the opponent’s units caused especially many problems for Avangard?

– Probably not. It’s just that either the opponent caught us intercepting the puck, ran away, or at some point used rebounds. We also had chances, including in the “patch”. When a few centimeters were missing to get there. If something had been implemented then, everything could have been different. The outcome could have gone either way.

– What prevented you from scoring on the power play the most when Avangard had it three times in the first period? Including the first one – which was 4 minutes… How upset did that upset everyone?

– There was a little confusion in our actions because Reed Boucher dropped out. And we got combinations that we didn’t train for. Somewhere there was a lack of mutual understanding, and this may have had an effect.

We previously wrote how the team’s head coach assessed the meeting Mikhail Kravets. Next, Avangard will play on September 14 against Admiral, also at home.

Omsk are now in sixth place in the KHL standings.