KAZAN, August 27, Vadim Kuznetsov. Head coach of the Kazan club of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) Ak Bars Oleg Znarok said he wanted to see how to play without a goalkeeper in overtime in a pre-season tournament match in Kazan against Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. the puck when the team's goal was empty. Last season, this was often done by the head coach of CSKA Moscow Sergey Fedorov. «Last season I saw this at Seryozhka Fedorov for the first time. I wanted to try it. This is a tournament — we don’t play for points. It turned out how it happened. If we analyze now, then we «we played wrong. We had to win the throw-in, which we did, go to the middle zone and then change the goalkeeper. In general, this is a good option. My assistant Yuri Babenko told me that he did this last year and beat CSKA with Vityaz. And I tried it for the first time,» Znarok told reporters. «We are not yet able to play two matches in a row, but it is characteristic that we began to show our hockey 12 minutes before the end of the match. Well done for pulling out the match. Unfortunately, we lost in overtime. «It's a nightmare. We spent almost a period in the minority. Apparently, it's fatigue. Plus our physical condition, that's why we sit down. Such a game came out today,» said the head coach of Kazan.
