SOCHI, August 8, Andrey Senchenko. Chairman of the board of directors of Avangard Omsk Alexander Krylov told reporters that he was grateful to the head coach of the Sochi hockey club Andrei Nazarov for the fights in the match of the pre-season tournament in Sochi, as it helped Omsk residents unite. On Thursday, Avangard beat Sochi with a score of 6:4. The first period of the match was marked by many fights involving hockey players from both teams. Sochi forward Artem Ivanyuzhenkov and Avangard defender Christian Yarosh took part in fights twice and were punished with a disciplinary fine until the end of the match. sports, but it is important that there is no dirt. Fighting is part of hockey. When a team has an advantage in the form of players who can «kill», this is one thing. But in our case, everything was fair. We were challenged, we accepted it. Thanks to Andrey Nazarov, that he organized such a kind of team building and allowed our team to unite,» Krylov said. For the last four seasons the club has been based in Balashikha near Moscow. The club will play its first home match in the upcoming KHL season on October 1. «As for the readiness of the arena, we need a month from September 1 to October 1 to get all systems working and not lose face. If at the last stage we hit face in dirt, then everyone will remember only this, and not what a heroic path we all went through together,” said the chairman of the board of directors of Avangard.
