Metallurg vs Avangard. Will Magnitka take revenge for the defeat of a week ago in Omsk?
Two giants of the Eastern Conference - Metallurg and Avangard, on October 17 will hold their second face-to-face match this season. The meeting will take place in Magnitogorsk, on the ice of the local Metallurg Arena.
Last season, Metallurg surprised many with a radical change in the playing pattern, when the coaching staff of Ilya Vorobyov replaced pragmatic hockey with an attacking style. As a result - the first place in the regular season, getting into the final of the Gagarin Cup and the sympathy of third-party fans. At the start of the current championship, Magnitogorsk did not abandon its last year's style, focusing on attacking hockey, but the defense suddenly began to fail. In the first four matches of the championship, Metallurg conceded 19 goals, and of the giants, only CSKA was in rivals (2-6 defeat), the team missed the remaining 13 from Torpedo, Severstal and Amur.
After that, the coaching staff of Metallurg made certain adjustments, and in the future there were practically no such failures. The only exception was the home match at the end of September against Neftekhimik, when Magnitka again played carelessly in defense, losing to an outsider 5-6. In general, Metallurg had quite a successful start in the first month and a half of the championship, scoring 11 victories in 17 matches. At the moment, the team has 24 points scored, and the current second position in the Eastern Conference standings.
Avangard
In contrast to Metallurg, the results of Avangard look. Omsk frankly fell down at the start of the championship, which has already led to the resignation of the head coach. Dmitry Ryabykin, who replaced Bob Hartley, a cult for Omsk, in the offseason, who failed to manage the team. There are a number of objective reasons, including a super-difficult calendar that forced Avangard to play away all September, and injuries to the main squad players. Nevertheless, even with such problems, Avangard had no right to play so weakly, at some point sinking to the bottom of the standings. The last straw was a home defeat against Kunlun, in which Avangard never scored on its own, while conceding four goals into its own net.
Now Mikhail Kravets, who worked in the Avangard coaching staff together with Dmitry Ryabykin, has been appointed acting. The debut turned out to be successful, in the home match against Amur, Omsk residents managed to take two points, beating their neighbors in the standings with a score of 4-1. This victory allowed Avangard to return to the cup eight in the East, with 15 points scored Omsk just occupy the eighth position.
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MetallurgLast season, Metallurg surprised many with a radical change in the playing pattern, when the coaching staff of Ilya Vorobyov replaced pragmatic hockey with an attacking style. As a result - the first place in the regular season, getting into the final of the Gagarin Cup and the sympathy of third-party fans. At the start of the current championship, Magnitogorsk did not abandon its last year's style, focusing on attacking hockey, but the defense suddenly began to fail. In the first four matches of the championship, Metallurg conceded 19 goals, and of the giants, only CSKA was in rivals (2-6 defeat), the team missed the remaining 13 from Torpedo, Severstal and Amur.
After that, the coaching staff of Metallurg made certain adjustments, and in the future there were practically no such failures. The only exception was the home match at the end of September against Neftekhimik, when Magnitka again played carelessly in defense, losing to an outsider 5-6. In general, Metallurg had quite a successful start in the first month and a half of the championship, scoring 11 victories in 17 matches. At the moment, the team has 24 points scored, and the current second position in the Eastern Conference standings.
Avangard
In contrast to Metallurg, the results of Avangard look. Omsk frankly fell down at the start of the championship, which has already led to the resignation of the head coach. Dmitry Ryabykin, who replaced Bob Hartley, a cult for Omsk, in the offseason, who failed to manage the team. There are a number of objective reasons, including a super-difficult calendar that forced Avangard to play away all September, and injuries to the main squad players. Nevertheless, even with such problems, Avangard had no right to play so weakly, at some point sinking to the bottom of the standings. The last straw was a home defeat against Kunlun, in which Avangard never scored on its own, while conceding four goals into its own net.
Now Mikhail Kravets, who worked in the Avangard coaching staff together with Dmitry Ryabykin, has been appointed acting. The debut turned out to be successful, in the home match against Amur, Omsk residents managed to take two points, beating their neighbors in the standings with a score of 4-1. This victory allowed Avangard to return to the cup eight in the East, with 15 points scored Omsk just occupy the eighth position.
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