" SALAVAT YULAEV" WITHOUT GAME
Only two wins in the last nine matches. In this series, a defeat from Vityaz, a draw with Novokuznetsk and a dry slap from Lada. But this is not even the main thing. The Ufa club, where any player is recognizable, and the move of Vladimir Antipov has become one of the loudest off-season transfers, does not show solid hockey. If in the first round everything was relatively decent (although the defeats from Amur and Tractor were alarming), now the team does not resemble a candidate for medals (namely, such a task was set by the leadership), but a team from the “swamp”. That is, this club will not leave the Super League in the foreseeable future, but it will not fight for high places either. And next to Ufa, the words “contract” and “kickback” regularly hover.
In Mikhalev, by the way, recently all the teams are just like that - neither fish nor meat. Only once did his veterans get together and win second place in the championship. This has created a specialist image of the winner, on which he leaves since then. “Salavat Yulaev” is another unsuccessful project.
Mikhalev was replaced by Sergei Gersonsky, his current assistant. But Gersonsky is good just as an assistant, he alone will not cope. And Salavat this year can be written off.
"Vanguard" WITHOUT TUNE
Omsk club continues to be an extremely bad month. First, there was a defeat in the Continental Cup from Minsk Youth. On Tuesday, the team of Valery Belousov managed not to retain an advantage in four goals, meeting in Chekhov with Vityaz. “Vanguard” is not the first time allowing itself not to tune in to an opponent. And Valery Belousov is well aware of this, but he can do nothing. Lost contact with the team? Do players not understand him?
I wonder how this crisis will drag on. Now, of course, we can still say that the playoffs are far away, and everything will be different there and responsibility will appear. But the trend is still unpleasant, and overnight it can not change.
CHAMPIONSHIP WITHOUT LOSERS
The main rumor of the week: according to the results of the current championship, none of the clubs will leave the super league, and the elite division, on the contrary, will be expanded at the expense of the Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. The details of these separate negotiations are not yet available. In the federation, as usual, everyone is refuted, citing the need to comply with the regulations. But knowledgeable people say that everything has already been decided. In the Super League there will remain the poor “Wings of the Soviets” (they will find the money), and “Cupid”, even if he takes 18th place. And even the Togliatti "Lada", which does not have a palace of the "right" size. The future winner of the Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Premier League tournament also has problems with the capacity of the arena, but they, they say, will not hinder it.
They will call all this “the need to develop hockey in the regions”, as they always did. For example, under Alexander Steblin. In general, in this championship three circles have already lost their meaning, it remains to wait for the playoffs. Unless, of course, there the teams that drop out of the fight are not kept in the quarter-finals or semifinals. Think impossible? Everything is possible with us.
CSKA WITHOUT SPECTATORS
Fans of the Moscow club came to the Vityaz - CSKA match because they were not allowed into the palace because of an eternal mess in the Moscow Region club (they also fired the general director, putting Alexei Zhamnov in his place). The leadership of CSKA did nothing to help the fans (there was no time, it was necessary to complain about the formidable Simpson). In response, the fans ignored the game CSKA - Lokomotiv.
The head coach of CSKA and the Russian national team Vyacheslav Bykov, however, did not attach any importance to this: “In my opinion, there were enough spectators. And those who came did not regret it. And the offended did not see a beautiful game. ”
And we wonder why they don’t go to hockey in Moscow.
Alexey Shevchenko