Youth takes over. #Kaprizov brings the win. #HCSalavat vs HCSpartak Moscow. January 10, 2017
Check out a recap of HC Salavat Yulaev's last game against HC Spartak. It's something you'd want to see, because firstly it's in English, secondly it has plenty of great photos. You don't see posts about KHL in English everyday, do you?
Оригинал взят у seliasai в Youth takes over. #Kaprizov brings the win. #HCSalavat vs HCSpartak Moscow. January 10, 2017
'We were damn good!', Kirill Kaprizov says at a flash interview after the game. We'll agree with that, but not completely. One step at a time.
Ufa fans were happy to see Kirill Kaprizov and Vorobyov finally back in the roster. They have just got back from #WorldJuniors in Montreal and Toronto, where the guys got the bronze medals. Kirill was announced as the best forward and sniper of the tournament, scoring 9 goals, which is a record for World Juniors. Vorobyov also set a record, having 8 assists without scoring goals. Salavat without these guys wasn't so confident in scoring goals. Generally, the team wasn't good during their absence. The head coach, Igor Zakharkin, says that these young players are the leaders of the team, despite they're 19 years old. His approach to the young players should be taken into account, this is unusual here in KHL.Giving much responsibility to young players is the thing that helps them to gain confidence, to feel the trust of a coach in you. NHL coaches have been doing it for several years already. Now look at Connor McDavid (19 y.o.) - captain of Edmonton Oilers, probably the best player in the league, Andre Burakovsky (21 y.o) - the guy who plays with Alex Ovechkin in one line, Auston Matthews (19 y.o.) - the best rookie, who scored 4 goals in his first game for Toronto Maple Leafs. So, Zakharkin's approach is pretty modern, he always does the progressive stuff in hockey.
The main question before the game was whether Kaprizov and Vorobyov are the real leaders of the team. Are they so special for the team? The answer is obvious - yes.
The roster of HCSalavat was completely changed for this game. Kaprizov went to the 1st line to Omark and Mertl, while Hartikainen is injured for unknown time. Khripunov (19 y.o) became a right wing of the 2nd line. In advance I'll say that he was really good in interaction with Enver Lisin and Evgeny Bodrov. Again, Zakharkin gives plenty of gametime to young players. Mikhail Vorobyov was a centre of the 3rd line. Igor Grigorenko and Aleksandr Nesterov helped him from the wings. Parshin - Korotkov - Lazarev were a stopping line this time. Niklas Svedberg was again in the net. Zakharkin now doesn't refuse to say that he has to make Svedberg the 1st goalkeeper for the play-offs. 'No matter how Niklas plays, I have to make him the 1st to let the team know what he does to gain confidence back. There is no place for experiments.' So, fair enough, coach.
Salavat Yulaev as always starts the game very bad. As always the team concedes 2 goals right at the beginning. Ryan Stoa scored at the 27th second of the game, Dmitry Kalinin makes it 0:2 for Spartak on 9th minute. Nothing new for a Salavat fan.
Score is 0:2, and that's when Salavat usually wakes up. Tomas Mertl scores his 2nd for Salavat in powerplay. Good start of the 2nd period. Sure, in 4 minutes Kirill Kaprizov starts his killing spree. A beautiful putback by young player makes it 2:2, assisted by Omark of course.
In 10 minutes Linus makes another assist to Kaprizov. That's probably his most beautiful goal tonight. It's not over for him yet, now he makes an assist to Aleksander Loginov to make it 4:2. 4 goals in a period, that's huge for Salavat in recent times. Last time when the team scored 4 goals in a game December 27, against Lada, but then they conceded 6. In the 3rd period Salavat starts keepaway game. We all know that Salavat Yulaev cannot lead keepaway game. They just can't. Spartak knows that too and Aleksey Kirillov makes it 4:3 and gets on nerves of Ufa fans. Anyway, Denis Kulyash scores an empty-net goal to make the final score 5:3. Kirill Kaprizov scoring 4 points becomes the man of the game. Probably he'll be the 1st of the week in KHL, we'll see.
It seems that Salavat brought back the ability to score as many as they want. The team has always been characterized by this feature. We'll see whether it's true in a game against Torpedo, which is a good team with strong defense. So, that's good to check the offensing game of Salavat Yulaev.
Оригинал взят у seliasai в Youth takes over. #Kaprizov brings the win. #HCSalavat vs HCSpartak Moscow. January 10, 2017
'We were damn good!', Kirill Kaprizov says at a flash interview after the game. We'll agree with that, but not completely. One step at a time.
Ufa fans were happy to see Kirill Kaprizov and Vorobyov finally back in the roster. They have just got back from #WorldJuniors in Montreal and Toronto, where the guys got the bronze medals. Kirill was announced as the best forward and sniper of the tournament, scoring 9 goals, which is a record for World Juniors. Vorobyov also set a record, having 8 assists without scoring goals. Salavat without these guys wasn't so confident in scoring goals. Generally, the team wasn't good during their absence. The head coach, Igor Zakharkin, says that these young players are the leaders of the team, despite they're 19 years old. His approach to the young players should be taken into account, this is unusual here in KHL.Giving much responsibility to young players is the thing that helps them to gain confidence, to feel the trust of a coach in you. NHL coaches have been doing it for several years already. Now look at Connor McDavid (19 y.o.) - captain of Edmonton Oilers, probably the best player in the league, Andre Burakovsky (21 y.o) - the guy who plays with Alex Ovechkin in one line, Auston Matthews (19 y.o.) - the best rookie, who scored 4 goals in his first game for Toronto Maple Leafs. So, Zakharkin's approach is pretty modern, he always does the progressive stuff in hockey.
The main question before the game was whether Kaprizov and Vorobyov are the real leaders of the team. Are they so special for the team? The answer is obvious - yes.
The roster of HCSalavat was completely changed for this game. Kaprizov went to the 1st line to Omark and Mertl, while Hartikainen is injured for unknown time. Khripunov (19 y.o) became a right wing of the 2nd line. In advance I'll say that he was really good in interaction with Enver Lisin and Evgeny Bodrov. Again, Zakharkin gives plenty of gametime to young players. Mikhail Vorobyov was a centre of the 3rd line. Igor Grigorenko and Aleksandr Nesterov helped him from the wings. Parshin - Korotkov - Lazarev were a stopping line this time. Niklas Svedberg was again in the net. Zakharkin now doesn't refuse to say that he has to make Svedberg the 1st goalkeeper for the play-offs. 'No matter how Niklas plays, I have to make him the 1st to let the team know what he does to gain confidence back. There is no place for experiments.' So, fair enough, coach.
Salavat Yulaev as always starts the game very bad. As always the team concedes 2 goals right at the beginning. Ryan Stoa scored at the 27th second of the game, Dmitry Kalinin makes it 0:2 for Spartak on 9th minute. Nothing new for a Salavat fan.
Score is 0:2, and that's when Salavat usually wakes up. Tomas Mertl scores his 2nd for Salavat in powerplay. Good start of the 2nd period. Sure, in 4 minutes Kirill Kaprizov starts his killing spree. A beautiful putback by young player makes it 2:2, assisted by Omark of course.
In 10 minutes Linus makes another assist to Kaprizov. That's probably his most beautiful goal tonight. It's not over for him yet, now he makes an assist to Aleksander Loginov to make it 4:2. 4 goals in a period, that's huge for Salavat in recent times. Last time when the team scored 4 goals in a game December 27, against Lada, but then they conceded 6. In the 3rd period Salavat starts keepaway game. We all know that Salavat Yulaev cannot lead keepaway game. They just can't. Spartak knows that too and Aleksey Kirillov makes it 4:3 and gets on nerves of Ufa fans. Anyway, Denis Kulyash scores an empty-net goal to make the final score 5:3. Kirill Kaprizov scoring 4 points becomes the man of the game. Probably he'll be the 1st of the week in KHL, we'll see.
It seems that Salavat brought back the ability to score as many as they want. The team has always been characterized by this feature. We'll see whether it's true in a game against Torpedo, which is a good team with strong defense. So, that's good to check the offensing game of Salavat Yulaev.