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There was no tragedy
A young player from the CSKA Ice Palace was promptly sent to the hospital
On Saturday, the focus was unexpectedly on the match between CSKA and Novokuznetsk Metallurg. In the third period, the visiting young striker Evgeny Orlov, after a collision with an opponent, was unable to finish the match on his own. He was taken to the locker room on a stretcher. This time, the medical ambulance teams and the club's doctors worked quickly. Orlov was taken to the hospital, and although the team went home without their player, his life is not in danger. The forward has a chest contusion.The central match of the weekend took place in Yaroslavl, where Lokomotiv hosted Ak Bars. The Kazan club is exhausted by the scandal with center forward Sergei Zinoviev. However, hockey players have long been forbidden to talk about this topic with the press, but they feel that Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, the head coach of the Tatar club, is thinking about something completely different. But the Yaroslavl team has no serious problems. The team is on the move, calmly preparing for the playoffs, winning more often and generally being a headache for all opponents.
The game turned out to be extremely boring. And the outcome was determined by Niko Kapanen’s only goal, scored against the Yaroslavl team at the end of the third period. The “railroad workers” were not too worried about this.
“Two great teams met, no one wanted to give in,” commented Lokomotiv defender Vitaly Vishnevsky, who was watching what was happening from the stands due to disqualification. - We immediately planned to play defensively, and I think we succeeded. We weren’t able to achieve maximum results in attack, but everyone has bad days.”
But the Omsk Avangard continues to have a long bad streak. Any day now, its leaders must make a decision on the resignation of team coach Wayne Fleming, under whom the Omsk team has turned into the middle peasants of the super league, despite the fact that the club’s budget is one of the highest in the league, and there are hockey players on the roster who would be happy to be hired to another team. Of course, Fleming is not the only one to blame for the fact that Avangard is losing to everyone, taking only four points in the last ten meetings. But the overseas coach was required to establish discipline on the ice, and this is not possible and to instill the psychology of winners. The guys from the Omsk club take to the ice doomed and when the opponents finally score, everyone stops playing. Jaromir Jagr, the most expensive foreign player in the KHL, tries, fights, but more often it happens that his nerves simply cannot stand it, and the Czech begins to be rude and rude.
The problem is that the team leaders don't yet know who to replace Fleming with. In addition, he is against the dismissal of coach Jagr, who lobbied Wayne for this position. Cech made it clear that if the coach resigns, he will ask to terminate the contract with him. They say that they called Bob Hartley from Omsk again, with whom they practically agreed more than a month ago, but he does not come back. Let us remember that Hartley was supposed to lead the team, but when the contract was signed, the Siberians backed off, demanding from the specialist a “plan for the development of the club.”
The issue of changing the coach at Torpedo has practically been resolved. This week, the Nizhny Novgorod team beat Atlant at home, but the defeat in Balashikha from HC MVD blurred the whole impression. It is possible that today the players will be told that they are starting the new month with a new coach. And it will be Sergei Gersonsky, who left Omsk not without a scandal.
The choice of Torpedo owners is very strange. Gersonsky has already led Avangard twice and was fired both times after the team began to lose. This is one of the strongest assistant coaches; at the pre-season training camp, no one can prepare the team for the championship better than him. But when you need to deal with everything, and not a specific area of work, the specialist is lost. However, not everything has been decided in Nizhny Novgorod. There they will consult with the players, but so far they are against it.
The first victory in the championship under Mike Krushelnicki was won by Vityaz. On home ice they beat Novosibirsk Sibir - 5:4. It is interesting that from this match the players of the Moscow region team were almost officially allowed to fight on the ice, and Darcy Verot immediately took advantage of this option, fighting with Ross Lupachuk. Prior to this, the team’s strong hockey players were engaged in functions that were not typical for them, hence the series of defeats. Now everything has fallen into place. The one who needs it fights, and the rest play hockey.
The hero of the week is the young Ak Bars goalkeeper Stanislav Galimov, who was the first of all to play three clean sheets in a row. It seems that he is the only one who is not affected by any problems within the team. Already this season they tried to send Galimov to a farm club, but the Kazan team fell through with a deal to transfer Mikhail Biryukov. It’s good that they decided to give Galimov a chance.
Results. KHL. Regular season. November 28. HC MVD - Torpedo - 5:3, SKA - Lada - 2:0, Dynamo M - Traktor - 4:3 (OT). November 29. "Avangard" - "Amur" - 1:3, "Severstal" - "Neftekhimik" - 2:1, "Lokomotiv" - "Ak Bars" - 0:1, "Dynamo" R - " Salavat Yulaev" - 2:3, "Dynamo" Mn - "Metallurg" Mg - 4:5 (bullet), CSKA - "Metallurg" Nk - 3:2, "Vityaz" - "Sibir" -- 5:4. November 30. HC MVD - Traktor - 5:2, SKA - Khimik - 2:1, Severstal - Lada - 0:2. Leading: Atlant - 69 points (29 matches), Salavat Yulaev - 68 (29), Ak Bars - 63 (30), Lokomotiv - 60 (30), CSKA, Metallurg » Mg - 58 (30), SKA - 57*** (30***).