
MOSCOW, Oct 10 Dmitry Ryabykin resigns as Avangard Omsk head coach , according to the official website of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) club. Mikhail Kravets has been appointed acting head coach. Avangard, with 13 points in 16 games, is eighth in the KHL Eastern Conference standings. experience as a head coach, in addition, recently he was a member of the team's coaching staff, knows the players and the system. Therefore, it was decided to appoint him as acting head coach, «said Avangard general manager Alexei Volkov. Ryabykin was appointed to the post The head coach of Avangard on May 1, he replaced Bob Hartley, under whose leadership the club won the Gagarin Cup in the 2020/21 season. Ryabykin was an assistant to the Canadian. Kravets during his coaching career led the Vityaz near Moscow and Amur Khabarovsk, and also worked at the headquarters of the St. Petersburg SKA, Sochi and the Belarus national team.

