On Saturday HC CSKA became the first club to slip out of Gagarin Cup play-off series, by losing to HC MVD in three matches. Legendary Russian coach and CSKA honorary president Viktor Tikhonov summarized results of the series.
"The team prepared for the season perfectly and demonstrated good hockey and result at the beginning of the championship", Tikhonov told Sport Express. "But later CSKA just lacked experience, that was the first reason of the club’s failure in play-offs".
"Players’ inexperience made them make unnecessary mistakes. They were too emotional".
"The second reason is insufficient experience of the head coach Sergey Nemchinov, who worked his first season independently. I suppose that our opponents’ head coach fully outplayed Nemchinov in the series against HC MVD".
"Several misfortunes settled uncertainty in our players and they became confused. And again it is caused by lack of experience".
"I am sure that coaches’ decision to part with Schastlivy and Kulyash was wrong. In any case I wouldn’t have parted with these players. I agree that Kulyash has very difficult character, but it was necessary to work with him, because I don’t see any best players in the team now".
"Everybody was afraid of Kulyash’s strike and after his quit CSKA had problems of realization of powerplay. When there are so many suspensions, you can make result on powerplay".
"I know that Nemchinov conducts many theoretical exercises, but theory cannot replace practice and team’s discipline leaves much to be desired in this case, because players don’t have skills which are worked out during trainings".
"I see brilliant future for CSKA. Coaches can work with their youngsters, who are very ambitious. The only thing I would do is to add several top-level forwards, since young players cannot lead the team for the whole season. And of course the team needs another captain".
"My attitude to foreigners is negative, because with their arrival to our hockey we stopped developing our reserves in all clubs".
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