Miracles from Mozyakin

Hockey lives even when he is not allowed to breathe

The current hockey bosses, in any case, their thorough part, do not like hockey. This is not a paradox, these are the realities of this season, during which the regular championship of the continental hockey league almost turned into routine. The main Moscow sign of the season - CSKA against Magnitogorsk, the finalist against the current owner of the Gagarin Cup - left two bossy lodges in virgins. It looked almost defiantly and completely inexplicably, especially since the match itself did not give the slightest reason to ignore it. Hockey, as usual, saves itself. And I flew to Magnitogorsk to feel the living breath of the game and feel the intensity of the upcoming cup battles. I felt and felt. Yes, it could not be otherwise.

The chip was not only that Metallurg as an unconditional leader of the “East” in its last tour passed a tough and successful test of the leaders of the “West” - in Yaroslavl “Lokomotiv”, in Moscow “Dynamo” and CSKA. True, the defeat from the Vityaz near Moscow happened, but this season Magnitogorsk is not used to giving points to the teams of the second echelon. But if the stimulus is serious, then the Ilya Vorobyov team does not give a descent.

The second “chip” was that the captain-bombarder of Metallurg Sergey Mozyakin struck the Gate of Dynamo and CSKA twice, bringing his sniper account in the regular championship to breathtaking 42 goals. Until 10 years ago, the Bombardira record of Alexei Morozov (83 points) remained nothing, the games in Magnitogorsk promised an interesting continuation.

Moreover, after a meeting with Severstal, in the latter, before the break, the match was to play with the St. Petersburg SKA - the number one of the unconditional applicant and to win the regular championship and the capture of the Gagarin Cup. Sky glasses were still needed - in the “West” table, they were pressed by the Moscow army. “Magnitogorsk” “gnawing” of glasses could no longer take care. But with regards to SKA, this did not change. It smelled of a different motivation.

Magnitogorsk celebrated the 85th anniversary of the metallurgical plant, which is for the city, and for hockey, of course, there is everything. Metallurg was saluted by the anniversary of six washers on the gate of Severstal, four missed relaxed fans forgave him, welcoming the loud “Mo-I-Kin!” Another and third consecutive double of his pet. Morozov’s bombardier record fell, a new goal was loosened ahead in the form of an eternal sniper achievement of the legendary Veniamin Aleksandrov (53 abandoned goals per season), but Mozyakin was not particularly hoped for Mozyakin in the nearest match. SKA did not come in order to rejoice in the sniper success of the leader of the principled rivals: the Petersburgers needed to protect themselves from the creeps of the Moscow army, that is, to fly away from Magnitogorsk with glasses.

The forecasts were useless - the match could have developed as you like. But no one was ready for how he actually developed. Because everything that could happen happened - or almost everything. The Magnitogorsk hockey audience, which has seen a lot over a quarter of a century in the elite division, is difficult to dumbfound something. But then she dumbfounded her and me with her.

The ending of the regular season, the fatigue is wild, the calendar is torn, with crazy segments, there is no time to train, to have time to somehow recover. The more matches - the lower the quality of hockey, the league is already unproned, and other hockey figures do not tire of promoting the idea of ​​its expansion, which only increases the number of uncompetitive clubs that barely survive. Between the "rich" and the "poor" - the abyss, and it only increases. And if anyone does not care about the issue of financial well -being, it is, first of all, the St. Petersburg army with their depth of the composition and the headquarters, almost in full force in the national team.

The head coach of Metallurg Ilya Vorobyov is also entering the coaching staff of the national team. Just the day before, the composition was published, which will represent Russia at the penultimate Swedish stage of Eurotour. Oleg Znarok, as usual, did not support the conversation about the affairs of the national team, citing a quick departure.

Or maybe also the mood of Oleg Valerievich, who was sitting on two chairs, did not have the mood. His star SKA, led by Pavel Datsyuk, Vadim Shchipachev, Ilya Kovalchuk, lost. He lost not because after the sleeves he reacted to the match, but because the hosts had a wonderful Sergey Mozyakin. And his suprapensist in the person of the inimitable Danis Zaripov, Center Form Forman Yana Kovarzh and defender Chris Lee. Mozyakin does not score on his own, right?

So, the leaders of the “Magnitoga” were neither visible and heard. The guests did not come across the Mozyakinsk-Zaripovsky lace, Kovarzha was taken in a vice, other links were restrained in saving mode. In the middle of the second period, the Schipachev link playfully realized the majority, taking Evgeny Dadonov to the slaughter position twice in a row, and after the big fine received by Yaroslav Kosov, the hall was completely depressed - there was 15 minutes in the third period about everything about Magnitogorsk.

By that time, both of the acts in the playoffs were forgotten by both about the caution and the development of both the others. The game did not lose its density, but gained fierce fight with a very high price. Someone had to give slack. To the first brand goal of Mozyakin SKA responded with a goleep breakthrough of Yarno Koskirants in the minority. But then, for the attack in the head of the head, the five -minute removal was earned by St. Petersburg Ilya Kablukov, and the captain of Magnitogorsk continued his campaign. The goals were like a carbon copy - the partners “cleared” the space in front of the Mozyakin, and the scorer brought to the throw “took off the web” above the shoulder of the giant Mikko Koskinen. This could be called the obviousness of high simplicity, which Mozyakin owns like no one else.

It took him four minutes about everything about everything that turned the match upside down. The people are distraught. Caps and baseball caps flew on the ice. A series of three takes continued with the most incredible hat-trick, which happened in the history of Russian hockey for the first time.

SKA will score in overtime “three by three”, but he will do this when he had four hockey players on his site. The match will be interrupted for several minutes, and Oleg Znarok, who violently did not agree with the verdict of the referees, will even try to take the team to the locker room and hear an indignant whistle in his address. Mozyakin will not be able to make a “poker”, but SKA does not realize the majority received at the very end of the five -minute.

Balls will replace the goalkeepers with the bullets, and young goalkeepers will come out on the ice - Igor Shzherkin and Ilya Samsonov. But they will not become heroes, because the audience will see the incomparable master class from the wizard Pavel Datsyuk, on the one hand, and the amazing Danis Zaripov on the other. There will be 14 throws in total. Datsyuk realizes two of three attempts, Zaripov - three out of three, not repeating in any case. The third throw will be victorious.

On the ice of the Magnitogorsk "Metallurg" Hockey Arena, he already proved that he lives even when he is not allowed to breathe. The eve of the playoffs gave the hope that the game would taxure.

Three clubs will still compete for the remaining two vouchers in the West, as many as seven teams will beat for four places in the “East”, but these showdowns no longer excite the leaders. The “Swedish” pause is coming on time, the Russian team will begin the stage of the match with the Finns in St. Petersburg, and with the “Trekhnur” and the Czech team will play in Gothenborg. Oleg Znarok summoned to the team of seven debutants and not a single star veteran.

But in the "Magnitogor", Known did not think about the national team, and in general, as it seems to me, in his priority - SKA. For the Gagarin Cup, the authorities will forgive him everything, but there are already two lost the world championship behind him, so there are still two hares.