Who are you, Mr. Gardner?

SPURT YAROSLAVLIA
Under the new coach Paul Gardner, the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv has not yet lost. The team even outplayed Kazan “Ak Bars” and showed that there will be more one strong club in the playoffs.
The leaders of Russian clubs need to think: are they doing everything right for the development of hockey? Is it worth it to arrange “pumping” for specialists, to press hockey players, demanding immediate victories? After all, it is better to invite an experienced person with a North American school behind you and let him work calmly.
And in general, are new Russian coaches needed now? There are Bilyaletdinov, Krikunov, Vorobyov, Bykov - specialists who have already taken place.The rest can be sent to America, paid for a year of study, and only then allowed to work. Too much baggage of Soviet knowledge behind them, which is very difficult to work with. And the material in the teams is good. Gardner proved this easily and naturally.

Hockey players are not garbage
Former SKA and Russian national team defender Andrei Yevstafyev filed a lawsuit against the new management of the St. Petersburg club.
In one of the matches of the Russian Championship, Yevstafyev suffered an eye injury, which put an end not only to his career, but also to a normal human life - he became disabled. The player had a contract until May 2007, but the new leadership of the team stopped paying salaries to the hockey player.
This case once again shows how unsettled the Russian hockey championship is and what primitive relations prevail here. In the NHL, a player does not have to sue the club - he is protected from all sides. Both the league itself and the union. And the club’s owners would not even think of violating the terms of the contract with respect to a player who was seriously injured during the match. But in Russia everything is possible. And it is still unknown whether Evstafyev will win the court.
After this incident, it makes no sense to be offended by people leaving for America, losing their salaries. After all, nobody wants to run through the courts. And then there was the new Krylia coach, Vyacheslav Anisin, accused striker Alexander Kozhevnikov, who in one of the episodes could throw himself under the puck, but he didn’t. “Previously, without such armor, we threw ourselves under the puck,” said the coach. And I forgot to add that the injured player was simply written off, and another was taken in his place. Found something to be proud of.

JUDICIAL REFORM
Judicial scandals continued last week. Anatoly Barinov, head of the judiciary committee, defending his subordinates, said that from next season two main referees should be put on the ice.
The scandals about the arbitrators, after all, still will not stop. You just need to remember that mainly those coaches who lost the meeting complain. It’s so convenient. Like, we did everything for victory, but the "striped monster" whistled "not there." Yes, the referees are wrong. But no less than their counterparts from America or Europe. For example, referee Schindler at the European Cup “whistled” in favor of “Ak Bars”. Kazan rivals grumbled a bit, but admitted that they did not lose because of this. And our judge is to blame for the fact that the attackers do not score, the goalkeepers miss, and the majority is not realized.
Even Anatoly Barinov said that linemen must be very strong, otherwise they get it during skirmishes. There is nothing to climb. Let them fight, let them find out the relationship, but they should be separated only when someone fell or the battle went to the clinch. Instead, judges only add fuel to the fire. If Shakhraichuk were allowed to calmly sort things out with Nikulin, there would be no ugly fight in the game Dynamo - Ak Bars. Vadim was offended that the judges held his hands, and Nikulin hit.

Alexey Shevchenko