Evgeniy Fedorov: It’s more honorable to win away. Mentor of Voronezh “Buran” Evgeny Fedorov: “I’ll try to borrow something from each of the famous specialists with whom I worked. Which hockey club did Evgeny Fedorov move to?

Before leaving for the next away series, we talked with Buran head coach Evgeny Fedorov. Evgeniy Yuryevich has a wealth of gaming experience behind him, and now he has a unique opportunity to immediately plunge into professional hockey as the helmsman of the VHL club. What did you have to face? What tasks does he set for himself? What does coaching mean to him? What's going on in the team? Read on for all this and much more.

"Our main trump card is youth and speed"

- Buran played two series - away and home. Let's sum up the intermediate result: 8 matches and five points. How would you rate the result? (excluding the match with “Diesel” - author’s note)

The result is average. We missed out on points against Zvezda, where we lost due to our mistakes, although we played well. We took two points with Toros, although they could also have won in regulation time. I think we could have added two or three more points to our treasury.

- Could fatigue from a long journey affect the result?

Do you mean a trip to China? To some extent, yes. All these travel, flights, time zone changes. We returned home and started the home series the next day. At training on the 19th, it was already clear that the guys had not fully recovered; after all, they had to stay up for two nights and go out on the ice. This, of course, had an impact, but is not the main cause of individual errors.

- Is it possible to avoid such mistakes in the future?

Only the one sitting on the bench makes no mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, at any level, even great hockey players. There is no game without mistakes, people are not robots. We will try to minimize it.

- Which of the away meetings was the most difficult?

They weren't all easy. But I think it’s still the first, because it’s the first. Both for me and for the guys. There were problems with the squad; in the preseason we did not play against teams of the VHL level, plus there was excitement.

- Where was it harder to play - away or at home?

I don’t know about the guys, it doesn’t matter to me personally. On the one hand, it’s nice to win on home ice in front of your fans. But on the other hand, it’s also an honor on the road when everyone is rooting against you, and you win.

- Can you already identify the strengths and weaknesses of our team?

Why should we tell everyone this? (laughs). We just recently got together, the guys are slowly arriving, Dynamo players are being added - they either played, then they were taken away again... Some look better physically, some look worse, some had injuries, rotation is constant. Some things didn’t have time to be trained or played out. Instability is still the main disadvantage. And we simply must use our most important trump cards - youth and speed. We have a young team, and many of the guys have something to prove to someone, something to strive for. You just need to remember this every day.

- What are you striving for? How do you see the ideal Buran?

I would like to see a game similar to the one in the first and second periods against Toros. When we played actively, aggressively, threw a lot, fought a lot with power, there was constant pressure on the goal, we returned to the defense brilliantly. We would like to exclude such moments when we are all sucked forward and we begin to forget about defense. The game in our zone needs to be improved. When there are no problems with defense, the team plays better in attack. We know what we need to work on and we are moving towards the goal.

The game against Toros was perhaps the best in the home series. A power struggle was added. And finally, we won the second period.

Yes, the second period is our “disease”. We talked to the guys at the meeting, identified the problem, and asked them to pay even more attention to it. And it turns out that we played the first period well, then came out in the second more relaxed, we think that it will continue to be so, but the opponent is rebuilding, changing the game. And we get confused by a system that we don’t play. And as soon as one falls out, the rest follow the chain, and the result is a “vinaigrette”. Hence these results. As for the power struggle, this is hockey after all. You don’t need to kill anyone, you don’t need to injure anyone... But when you’re being beaten the whole game, you run out of strength faster. And we show our opponents that we came out to play hockey for a reason. And in order to play hard hockey, you don’t need to have dimensions. The main thing is to do it! And then let the opponents watch. Once they got somewhere and the second time they will think about whether to go there or not.

-How do you explain the regular violation of the numerical strength?

They seem to be grown-up guys, they all know how to count. It happens that they flirt. Emotions are overwhelming. Sometimes during the game we change lineups, someone has to change their role, someone plays in the center, then goes to the edge, somewhere we didn’t agree and instead of one person two come out. This was no longer the case in the match with Toros; progress was also made.

"You must always remain human"

- What kind of hockey?did center forward Fedorov play for her?

Was I... playing regular hockey (laughs). I didn’t have any distinctive features, I just always tried to complete the tasks that the coaches gave me personally and the team. It was different in different teams, everything depended on the composition, on the goals, on the vision of the coaches.

- What did you want? Run forward and score goals?

I wanted the team to win. When I was younger, I loved to run, but as I got older, I didn’t fly like that anymore. This is hockey, you can’t help but run here (laughs).

- If you had the option to score yourself or pass the ball, what did you prefer to do?

I was always happy for my partners if they scored from my passes. Of course, it’s nice to do it yourself, but if my extreme ones took advantage of the moment, I got no less pleasure. Yes, I wasn’t some kind of super scorer. I have always tried to solve team problems. All efforts were aimed at winning the team. We don’t have boxing or swimming. If we win, we are all together, and when we lose, it’s the same. There are many examples: people won individual trophies, but won nothing as a team. I believe that you should always do something for the sake of the team, and not for yourself.

- What qualities, in your opinion, should a coach have?

I don't know what he's like must be. People are all different. For example, I was always impressed by those coaches whose human qualities were in order. I was lucky with this; almost all the mentors I worked with were all good people. Let's not talk about obvious things - for the coach to be competent and understand hockey... this is all clear. But I would highlight human relationships in the team, in everyday life. You will be a good person and everything will always be fine with you.

"Nobody shuts anyone up"

- What kind of coach is Fedorov, I wonder? Coach-friend, coach-dictator...

As one coach said, players can be friends for me, but I cannot be friends for them. There must be a line here. It’s clear that I can communicate with them, spend time, especially since I’m not much older than them, and I myself want to be closer to the young guys. But familiarity should not be allowed either. Dictator? Well, definitely not. I don't like screaming. There is a human language; everything can be explained clearly without shouting. The main thing is to pay attention in both directions.

- How did you share responsibilities with Alexander Trofimov?

We're all about 50/50. We didn't specifically agree on clear roles, it's just that Sasha is older and a little more experienced. We decide everything together, but during the game he voices some points. Nobody shuts anyone up. If you have something to say, please do so.

- If we take your tandem, which of you is the “good cop” and which is the “evil”?

Sasha is probably evil. (laughs). Sometimes you have to slow it down. But he doesn’t do this because he is an evil person, and I agree that at some points we need to act tougher. But we do not cross this line. You need your team to trust you. We try to communicate and establish contact. And there are times when a person cannot talk about his problems in front of everyone, we talk in person. They themselves began to approach little by little. At first, this didn’t happen at all. Looked closely, maybe.

- Just before the season, you said that the team was squeezed and constrained. Is this better now?

It's better now. At least they started smiling during training. There should be a team atmosphere! It's a young thing. The guys have their whole lives ahead of them, every day should be remembered for something. Because a career, and I have seen this from personal experience, passes very quickly. And then you turn around, and there’s nothing to remember. And then you will worry about wasted years. Therefore, you need to live during training and games! You need to live as a team, so that it is fun, so that the guys are in a good mood. We're trying, we're doing it. Recently, during a training session, they were offered a game, divided into two teams, where each plays for its own goal. At first they didn’t quite understand, but when they got the hang of it, the excitement started, and they started swearing and laughing.

- What is generally needed for a team to perform as a single fist?

Time, I think. I want the team to be real. We don’t ask them to visit each other in the evening! But if you come into the locker room, your family is here for a while. So that everyone helps each other, so that these clans are not created... And this is the worst thing that can happen in a hockey team, I think.

- So that there is no hazing...

Who plays for us? (laughs). Although “grandfather” arrived alone (Sergei Zhurikov, born 1977 - author’s note), I don’t think that he will begin to establish his own rules. On the contrary, it should help.

- Do the players understand what you require of them?

I hope! Although this also happens - we show the exercise: guys, do you understand? Yes! And they do everything the other way around (laughs). But this has always happened when I played. All clear? Yes, yes, yes... But in fact, nothing is clear. Sometimes you feel embarrassed to admit that you misunderstood. Just like at school. But there is nothing wrong if someone asks something again. It’s better to spend an extra minute to explain than to then stop the exercise, get ready and talk again.

You were just “yesterday” a player, and you don’t have coaching authority yet. Does the team feel this? How did the guys accept you, despite your lack of experience?

This, of course, is better to ask them. At least I didn’t notice any disrespectful attitude. Everything seems to be adequate.

- As soon as you became a coach, did something change internally in you? Maybe some new features have appeared?

I noticed one thing. When I was a player and they drilled something into us, explained it a hundred times, I thought, well, what are you finding fault with, everything is wrong for you! And now I understand that they do this not because they want to get to the bottom of you, but they want to make you even better! And I realized that the coaches know better. I also thought that the coach came, trained and left. But in reality there are many more questions. Hockey takes up almost all of my time. I won’t say that I don’t like it or that it’s hard for me, on the contrary, I really like it!

- So you finally switched to the other side?

On what? To the dark? (laughs).

- Well, during the first matches, did you ever have a desire to grab a stick yourself and run out onto the ice?

Nope, I’m done (laughs). I still won’t play better than our guys now, so what should I do there on the ice? I played my part. All. Let's go.

- How close do you take the game to your heart? Result? How emotional are you?

I can't show that I'm upset. After defeat, I don’t have to think about myself! I’ll get through this somehow, but the main thing for me is that the guys understand that this is not the end of the world. That we have a new game tomorrow, we need to prepare for it, we need to draw conclusions and move on. Of course I'm worried! Then I think, how could I have done it differently, but if only... why not... Self-digging is common to all coaches. But here on the coaching staff we also try to support each other, we analyze the games, we review everything a hundred times. As a player, I could afford a lot in terms of emotions, but now I don’t. It is important for the team to see that the coach has not lost his temper, that everything is fine (laughs).

“I can’t forgive indifference and lack of will”

- How important are moral and volitional qualities for you? What can you put up with and what can’t you?

I cannot forgive indifference and lack of will. You can tell by a hockey player when he wants to. He can make mistakes, but when he puts his heart and soul into it and is ready to do anything for the sake of a common victory, that’s very cool. Emotions are very important. Yes, even if they destroy the locker room after a defeat, it will still be better than them just changing clothes, washing themselves and going home. Lack of emotions is not something bad... it even becomes scary for the team (laughs). Some people keep everything to themselves, worry inside, but this is also visible. Our guys are all adequate. Even if someone is not part of the team today, we try to explain that you are still in the team, you are a team. Today you don't play, tomorrow you play. Whether you are on the ice or in the reserves, you are still a Buran player. It is important that they still root for each other, worry about each other, and support each other.

- How is the team doing with discipline?

Household stuff is good so far. There were no serious violations. At first, the guys were sometimes a minute or two late, but we explained that 30 people shouldn’t wait for one and asked them to be more punctual. We have fines, but they are purely symbolic. And in any case, this money does not go to Sasha and me, but remains in the team “common fund”. We’ll find out where to spend it later if we accumulate it (laughs).

- Has the hockey player Fedorov ever fought on the ice?

Happened several times when I was young. But I tried to always think not about myself, but about the team. A fight is an unnecessary removal right away - that's what I was thinking about. The coaches taught this. In general, I was lucky to have mentors in life, to work with amazing people since childhood. Therefore, now I try to take a little from each and apply it in practice. Everything is different now. Even when I was 18 years old, we were already more adapted than young people are now. It happens that a person joins a major league team, but he doesn’t know the basics, which he had to explain back in school. That a pass through a nickel cannot be given, for example.

-Have you encountered this too?

Well, where to go? And we have to give the guys what they weren’t told at the right time. You think that since a person comes to a professional club, he should have this knowledge. But no. And you have to spend time training them. And there is a lot of this in the VHL. By the way, we have one very intelligent hockey player on our team. I was surprised that at such a young age he had such an understanding of the game. But there are very few of them. And someone understands everything, but wants to do what is best, takes on more... and in the end it also turns out to be some kind of rubbish.

“You can’t lure fans with posters”

- What physical shape is the Buran team in?

I don't have any information about what people were doing here before we arrived. We asked, but no one gave any specifics. Judging by the third periods, and we often switched to three lines, we played on an equal footing, and in some cases even better. And they didn’t lag behind in speed. We are catching up little by little. We no longer have time to compile microcycles; it’s time for games. And now we need to find a balance so that they rest and train, and so that they want to go on this ice.

- We have completely different lineups for each game. How do you explain this rotation?

It's always good to have a bench. You can always bring in fresher guys. Besides this, there is also an educational moment - if you didn’t play to your full potential, there will be people who will come out instead of you. There should always be competition. The guys are waiting for their chance and must take it. Let them train and work. We don’t have that - there are four squads playing, and we don’t let the rest in. Play, prove.

- But this also affects teamwork.

We all play according to the same system, all units play the same hockey. Therefore, if you swap players or put them in different units, they will not get lost. Everyone knows roughly what needs to be done. I don't think it matters that much. If you look at the KHL teams, what a rotation there is. When people sit behind you, it motivates. We are trying to do the best. We are looking for options on how to better use their potential and strengths.

More and more Dynamo players are coming to Buran, but they can just as easily be recalled back. How competitive will the team be without them?

We keep this in mind. It is clear that the guys from Dynamo are a good help. But don’t think that if they leave, we will be left with nothing. All our guys will also play and try.

- “Buran” turns 40 this year. Most recently, the club won silver medals in the VHL. Do you feel responsible to the fans?

Yes, I know that Buran is a club with a rich history. That just recently the team played in such a way that it was impossible to get to the hockey game. We also really want the stands to be full! But we cannot lure fans with posters or advertising. This can only be done with your game! At least stick posters on every pole, no one will come if the team loses. And if we win, we don’t have to glue them at all. Everyone will know and a full palace will gather.

- Have you finally decided to connect your life with coaching?

I always wanted to connect my life with hockey. I knew I could do this better than anything else. It’s not that I can’t do anything, I just don’t like anything else. And I don’t want to engage in any management or agency activities, it’s not my thing. I want to be on the team! I have been in it all my life and now, as a coach, I am in it. You see, this is an opportunity to be on the bench, to be close to the game, to skate on the ice, to shoot the puck. Even play with the same non-playing cast. I stay where I've been all my life. That's what's important to me.

- You have a wealth of gaming experience. Are you planning to study coaching?

I graduated from the Higher School of Coaches in Omsk, studied for a year, passed the exams, and defended my diploma in training highly qualified hockey players. I learned a lot of useful things, but they also provide information that may not be useful. There was a lot of physiology, there were even lectures on how to properly go to the bathhouse. For general development, of course, it is useful, but in any team there are doctors and massage therapists for this. They know more about this than the coach.

- Did you like studying?

Liked. This is all very interesting - knowledge, communication, exchange of views and experiences. I would also like to listen to lectures by great people both in our hockey and abroad. If there is such an opportunity, I will gladly go. On the one hand, everything has already been invented before us. But here is the example of Mike Babcock - a coach who won two Olympic Games, a World Championship and a Stanley Cup. Every year he goes somewhere in Europe to learn and listen to something. When asked why you are doing this, he answered: “What I used to win yesterday may not work tomorrow.”

- Since you liked studying, you probably like to read?

I love. Although now I mainly listen to books. I recently listened to Radzinsky’s trilogy “Apocalypse from Koba.” About Stalin's life from beginning to end. Very interesting. I picked up the book “The Young Guard” to read. I've finished 150 pages so far, I don't have time anymore. In general, I prefer both books and films based on reality. And not that some monster flew in from some galaxy and burned everyone with a laser (laughs). I also read books on psychology, books by various coaches, not just hockey ones, books about great athletes who have achieved a lot and you can learn something from them, spy on them.

- Do you have any simple joys in life? Fishing, cooking?

Definitely not cooking! Your hands are not suited for this task. Fishing... you can go, but again, if someone calls you, they will give you a fishing rod and all these fishing paraphernalia. I don’t have anything of my own and I won’t buy it specifically. And I won’t go anywhere alone (laughs). We play computer games with the children. With my son - football. By the way, I’ve been a fan of Spartak Moscow for a long time and would really like to take a photo with Valery Shmarov. I know that he is from Voronezh.

- They say that Alexander Viktorovich brought the uniform. And you?

And I'll bring it. I want to look like an athlete, even a former one. I would like to compete on equal terms with the guys, because if we are weak, they will not be interested in us. I myself am curious to see if I can do at least something else or if I have already done everything. It seems like we’re holding on for now, even winning sometimes. At the last training session we played a mini-game, and Alexander Viktorovich put an end to it with his powerful throw, and we won. We go to the gym whenever possible. Sasha stands in the plank for 8 minutes! I'm just getting to this point (laughs). In general, we try to lead by example.

Press service of "Buran"

Since Soviet times, it has developed so that the majority of Russian hockey players, if they play in Europe, do so in Switzerland. Recently, the trend has begun to change: young Russians go to Finland to grow, and experienced hockey players receive offers from exotic places such as Nice or Edinburgh. We decided to find out which European clubs hockey players from Russia are playing for this season.

, “Wisp” (Switzerland), 8 (3+5) points in 6 matches

Kovalev announced his retirement from his sports career two years ago. This year he decided to return to sports, becoming the playing sports director of the Swiss Visp, which plays in the second strongest division. It was “Wisp” that was his last team in his career.

43-year-old Kovalev does not play often, and appears in only a third of the team’s matches. If he is on the ice, then be sure that he will not leave without scoring points.

43-year-old Kovalev does not play often, and appears in only a third of the team’s matches. But if he is on the ice, then rest assured that Kovalev will not leave without scoring points, and if it comes to shootouts, he will show his skills there too.

Alexey Krutov, Red Ice (Switzerland), 3 (1+2) points in 14 matches

The son of the legendary Soviet hockey player Vladimir Krutov, Alexey, returned to Switzerland this year. He has played in the KHL for the last five seasons, starting last year with Spartak Moscow and finishing it with its farm club, Khimik Voskresensk in the VHL. Before returning to Russia, Krutov played in the main Swiss league for Zurich; now he plays in the Russian team of the second league. Mikhail Flyagin and Dmitry Malgin also play for Red Ice, and Albert Malgin is the sports director. His youngest son Denis is playing in the NHL this year.

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Sergei Khoroshun, Nice (France), 3 matches

At the end of October, the website of the VHL club THC reported unexpected news: goalkeeper Sergei Khoroshun was leaving the team and will continue his career in the French “Nice”. For the 36-year-old goalkeeper, this is not the first time he has gone abroad; about five years ago, he managed to play in Slovakia for Banska Bystrica and in the Ukrainian Championship for Kiev Berkut. Defender Andrei Esipov has been playing for the French Bordeaux for the third season, so Khoroshun is not the only representative of Russia in this unusual championship.

Pavel Vorobyov, Edinburgh (EIHL), 12 (4+8) points in 12 games

One of the most unusual things this season was the transition of two-time Russian champion Pavel Vorobyov to the British championship. For Edinburgh, of course, the signing of Vorobyov is a big event; the forward at one time managed to play 57 matches in the NHL for Chicago, and even played for the Russian national team at the Eurotour stage. He spent his last years in the VHL and realized that something needed to change. Therefore, the Scottish museum city looks like a good option.

, Edinburgh (EIHL), 5 (2+3) points in 12 games

Like Vorobyov, he spent the last seasons in the VHL, playing for his native Nizhny Tagil “Sputnik”. Fedorov at one time managed to play for the lockout Ak Bars, Magnitogorsk, and Dynamo Moscow.

Georgiev was not loaned out; he regularly receives playing time in the main Finnish league. He is still 20 years old and has his whole career ahead of him.

As part of the Russian youth team, he won silver at the World Championships. In Edinburgh, Fedorov and Vorobyov play together with Jared Staal, the youngest of the brothers, and their team is in last place in the championship.

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, TPS (Finland), 8 matches

Georgiev on this list is perhaps the most promising Russian hockey player. In 2014, he left for TPS, since in Russia he did not receive playing time even in the MHL. In his first season, he won the youth league of this country, and last year, as a member of the Russian youth team, he became the silver medalist of the World Championship. This season he was not loaned out; he regularly receives playing time in the main Finnish league. He is still 20 years old and has his whole career ahead of him.

Damir Galin, IPK (Finland), 0 (0+0) points in 4 matches

In 2012, Galin played for the Russian junior team at the World Championships, then for a long time he was in the Kazan Ak Bars system, first in the MHL, and then in the VHL. In November of this year, 22-year-old Galin signed a contract with the Finnish Second League club, where he plays together with compatriot Evgeniy Fofanov. The goalkeeper of the same team is Slovakian Denis Godla, named the most valuable hockey player of the 2015 World Youth Championship.

Andrey Plekhanov, Zvolen (Slovakia), 1 (0+1) point in 8 matches

At one time, Columbus selected Plekhanov in the NHL draft with the 96th pick. In North America, he played only in the AHL and ECHL.

In Edinburgh, Fedorov and Vorobyov play together with Jared Staal, the youngest of the brothers, and their team is in last place in the championship.

In the KHL he managed to play for Dynamo, Amur, his native Neftekhimik, Sibir, Sochi and Admiral. At the end of last season, he ended up in the VHL and won Bratina with Almetyevsk Neftyanik. This year he went to Slovakia, where he plays for Zvolen with Valery Knyazev, Plekhanov has one of the worst performance indicators in the team.

Sergey Korostin, Martin (Slovakia), 11 (6+5) points in 9 matches

In general, there is a large representation of Russians in Slovakia this year. Forward Sergei Korostin, who at one time won gold at the junior world championship and bronze at the youth championship as part of the Russian national team, signed a contract with the Martin club. For the last five years he played in the St. Petersburg SKA system in the VHL and now he decided to change something in his life. Korostin plays for Martin together with Ilya Dokshin.

The new head coach of “Buran” Evgeny Fedorov, who, we recall, took over the team at the beginning of the outgoing week, replacing Sergei Kary at its helm, on Friday, September 1, spoke in detail with journalists from several Voronezh publications.

He talked about how the “hurricane” team is completing its preparation for the upcoming Major Hockey League championship, shared his first impressions about the transition from a player’s career to coaching and his opinion about the level of the VHL tournament, and also talked about the “fun” last season that he spent In Great Britain.

“It is very important to establish an emotional background in the team”

– Evgeniy Yuryevich, how did the option to lead Buran arise? And why did you previously decide to end your playing career and start working as a coach? After all, we probably could have played at the same VHL level for a couple more seasons.

– Still, age is already taking its toll, and there were injuries. Besides, I had already managed to “kill” the hockey player in me when I went to the UK. I understood that I was just interested in going there and seeing how everything works there according to the Canadian system. This was done solely for my own development. I clearly realized that after the 2016/17 season I would not play again.

And to perform at the VHL level... You still need some kind of incentive. And it was clear that the Major Hockey League would no longer give me anything as a player. When there is nothing to strive for, it makes no sense to just go out on the ice, “hang out” in some team and travel across the country on buses and trains. At one time I had already ridden on them.

In principle, there was an offer to work at a school in Yekaterinburg. But for certain reasons I had to refuse. And then the option with Buran arose, a telephone conversation took place with the club’s management. We exchanged opinions, after which Alexander Viktorovich Trofimov and I came to Voronezh, watched control matches with HC Rostov and finally agreed on everything.

– Did you have any preliminary information about our city and Buran?

– The only thing I knew was that last season the guys went to the matches, and not each of them had their own stick. Of course, this surprised me greatly: it seemed like a big city, a VHL club. Two years ago, under Alexander Nikolaevich Titov, there was some kind of fantastic atmosphere in the stands, order in the team, and serious tasks were set. And I only heard about the last championship what I already said.

Of course, this is a very negative point. I don’t even want to remember such things. I myself did not participate in all this, but judging by the guys, they are still living in that season, as it seemed to me. There is a residual emotional background to a certain extent. You try to talk to the players, and the response is silence and misunderstanding. I explain to them: “Guys, let’s talk to you! There is no need to remain silent here.” I would like there to be some kind of feedback, a desire to work and train. So that all this happens fun, young, cheerfully.

The management told us that we should not expect gigantic injections of funds into Buran this season, but promised stability in this matter. It is necessary for the hockey players to believe that our club is gradually rising financially, that there will be normal equipment. Today we informed the team that the clubs were arriving, and the guys immediately had joy on their faces. This is great, because now it is very important to raise the emotional background.

– Do you agree that it is very risky to host a team a couple of weeks before the start of the championship? After all, you weren’t the one who assembled the squad and conducted the preseason.

– Who is risking here and with what? I’ll say right away that I didn’t know anyone from Buran before. And Alexander Viktorovich and I were in no way going to “sit on” the previous coaching staff. People invited us and were waiting for an answer to only one question – whether we would come or not. Probably, in this situation, the club management is at greater risk than Trofimov and I, because they decided to make changes.

It is clear that we do not have much coaching experience. However, I personally worked with such famous mentors as Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, Pyotr Vorobyov, Oleg Znarok, Vladimir Krikunov, Vladimir Vuytek, Milos Rzhiga, Anatoly Emelin. I won’t list them all! I didn’t hear from someone else’s words, but I saw with my own eyes what they were doing and how they were doing it. And if we sum it all up, then we can take something from each specialist in terms of work and communication with the team. Draw conclusions for yourself and work based on them.

“I used to imagine coaching a little differently”

– Would you like to be especially like one of the mentioned mentors in your coaching activities?

– I repeat, any of them has something to borrow. Let's say, Znarka has the ability to establish, again, an emotional background. Indeed, in the 2009/10 season, his coaching staff was able to create an excellent team in the HC MVD, which did not have great money and big players, which reached the “silver” in the KHL. Before the start of that championship, we were predicted to take eleventh place in the Western Conference, but we reached the playoff final and lost to Ak Bars only in the seventh match.

Tactical schemes are the same Znarok, and Bilyaletdinov, and Vorobyov, and Emelin. Basically, they all have the same school. Screamers are both physical condition and human attitude towards people. After all, each player, in addition to hockey, has his own life, some kind of everyday life. Different situations arise, and they need to be treated with understanding. Vladimir Vasilyevich never takes offense at anyone and is not vindictive. Remains honest and fair with all his severity.

And the coaches of the new generation have a lot to learn. Let’s say Dmitry Kvartalnov, who showed his worth both in Sibir Novosibirsk and in CSKA. Or Peteris Skudra, who, despite not having the most serious financial resources, is achieving good results with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod.

– Why did you choose Alexander Trofimov as your assistant?

- Yes, he simply tortured me, he asked: “Take it, take it!” (laughs). I didn't even know how to get rid of him. But seriously, we have known each other for a long time - probably 20 years already. Alexander played at a good level, he has some experience as a head coach in the Kazakh HC Almaty. Of course, our views on hockey are largely similar.

– Have you previously discussed the possibility of working together with him?

- No. Sasha minded his own business, I did mine. And it makes no sense to discuss something that may not happen in life. If you just dream...

– What are your impressions from the first week of your coaching career?

– To be honest, I imagined it all a little differently. Over many years in hockey, I have met coaches who work from morning to evening, but I have also seen mentors who taught a lesson and went home. Our first days in Voronezh were such that we worked twelve hours a day - from 8 to 20. I had never been in such a mode before. I was a hockey player, and they decided for me when to train, rest, have lunch, go to matches, and so on.

The current work covers many points. This includes scheduling, the training process, and communication with the guys, club management, and agents. We are trying to somehow combine all this, but a lot of time is wasted. On the other hand, they themselves agreed, so there shouldn’t be any difficulties.

Again, I believed that the city's main team could take the ice any time its coaching staff wished. But now I’ve learned that everything needs to be planned out in advance, since young hockey players, veterans, amateur teams, and figure skaters train at Yubileiny. Here, too, everything needs to be summarized and taken into account.

– With such a busy schedule, you probably haven’t met Voronezh yet?

– So far I have only seen the Sports Palace, a temple near it, a hotel, an apartment. And also the “Chizhov Gallery”, as well as the dead end in which the trains are stopped. There is nothing else to boast about at the moment.

“Our team must be interesting for the audience”

– Before the start of the season, can you name the VHL clubs that, in your opinion, will qualify for victory in the championship?

– Probably, the favorites, as usual, are those who are in the best financial position, have a certain stability, experienced players and coaches. I can’t single out anyone in particular right now. At the same time, who bet on Dynamo Balashikha to win last season? And it became a champion.

– What can you say about the appearance of two Chinese teams in the League?

- You'll have to fly far! As for the rest, we'll see. After all, all KHL representatives need farm clubs. I know that both hockey players from Russia and our coaches went to China. It will be interesting to see what kind of teams they end up with and how everything is organized there.

– With the introduction of a limit on age hockey players, will the VHL change somehow?

– I think that recently the level of the championship has generally decreased a little. About five years ago he was still taller. The league is constantly rejuvenating, but yesterday’s juniors do not always succeed in making the transition to adult, men’s hockey. Some people perform well in the youth team, but then stop progressing. Although in any case it is better to start playing in the VHL championship than to remain in the MHL for some time.

– Did you know any of the current Buran players?

- Nobody. On the site, they may have crossed paths with the same Denis Koroteev, Andrei Belozerov or Alexei Shestopalov. But I didn’t know any of the guys personally.

– What do you think, if your wishes regarding the formation of the team are fulfilled, then what tasks will Buran be able to solve in the 2017/18 season?

– In terms of forming the squad, we have some restrictions. But we are not looking far yet. Let's start a step-by-step movement, and, God willing, everything will work out well. The main thing is that our team is interesting, “prickly” and “toothy”, interesting for the audience. So that it doesn’t happen that “Buran” wins only five matches in a season, and everyone will wipe their feet on it.

Even if you are inferior to someone, your opponent should feel the price of this victory. We will try to show that we fight, we fight, we play. Plus, there are a lot of Voronezh guys on the team. And they probably want to prove something to their friends, acquaintances, and local fans. At least that's what I think.

– In your opinion, how complete is the Buran squad now, a week before the first championship match?

– At the moment we have six fives at our disposal. But we continue to evaluate the hockey players’ capabilities, we will play a big two-way game, which will help us decide on some points. Of course, if it were July 15th on the calendar today, we would have seen more people, worked without much hurry.

And now we have to do everything faster. Maybe someone else will come to Voronezh. We conduct selection and try to create normal competition in the team. In addition to the four A's, we need other guys striving to join the team. At the same time, each player should feel like part of a large and friendly team, in which everyone supports each other.

“You can’t play equally against all opponents”

– It turns out that the opening match of the season in Voskresensk will in all respects be your debut at the head of Buran. Or will it still be possible to hold at least one more test match?

- It turns out so. We contacted two teams, but we couldn’t come to an agreement: they already had other plans. But they themselves refused to travel to Rostov-on-Don, since difficulties in terms of getting there and back could not be ruled out. It could happen that we would simply lose valuable time.

– Surely you have already studied the championship calendar. How difficult did you find it?

– The beginning will be difficult, which is connected with the flight to China. The trip will be long, after the second match there we will only get home in two days. Plus – change of time zones. We will return to Voronezh, and a day later we will play the first game on our site. We will think about how to restore the guys with minimal loss of time.

– Have you ever played on a similar schedule: four matches at home, then the same number of matches away?

- Certainly. Our medical staff is good, the food is normal, but here a lot depends on the guys. They must understand everything, prepare themselves somewhere, feel their body and take care of it.

– The preseason is still ongoing, even if there is only one week left before the start. For now we train twice a day, and then we’ll see and vary. You can’t “overfeed” the guys with ice; they need to still have the desire to go out on the court.

– Have you already decided what kind of game you want to instill in Buran?

- Yes. But you always need to take into account who is in your lineup and what opponent you are facing. You can’t act the same way against everyone. We are already communicating the general principles to the hockey players. Something turns out to be new to someone. We try to adjust everything to a common standard, but this is not done in two or three weeks. Since we have such a situation, we have to show and tell in an accelerated manner.

– Have you contacted the coaching staff of Dynamo Moscow, our current sports partner from the Kontinental Hockey League? Will there be real personnel support for Buran from the capital club?

– Muscovites themselves are now in a difficult situation, since there are too many injuries in the first team. I talked with one person from the Dynamo youth team. And he said that even they took several guys born in 1997-1998 into the base in order to conduct a full-fledged training process. If everything was fine there, I think Dynamo themselves would have called us and offered hockey players.

– Therefore, you shouldn’t expect help from Moscow at the start of the season?

– I believe that we will continue to rely on our own strength throughout the championship. You can’t sit and pray that Dynamo will send someone to us. They will send players - good. No, that means we will perform exclusively with our guys.

“After a week in Edinburgh I wanted to go home”

– Evgeniy Yuryevich, I would like you to tell us in more detail about how you played for the Edinburgh Capitals in the British Elite Hockey League.

– It’s difficult for me to make any comparisons, say, with the VHL. But it is clear that the British League is inferior in level to the KHL. We have more playgrounds, the guys are trying to play. The hockey there is just different, the school is different - typically Canadian. Everyone is running, fighting, fighting, throwing the puck over the boards. Although, of course, there are interesting teams and players.

– What is the attitude towards hockey in Great Britain?

– In some places everything is very well organized, in others it is at an amateurish level. Some teams recruit guys who simultaneously work in other places - they glue wallpaper, repair water pipes, and so on. If, for example, the socket in the locker room is broken, there is always a player who can easily fix it. But, I repeat, there are also purely professional clubs and spacious ice palaces that attract full houses.

– How was the situation in your Capitals?

- Not good! I went there, and within a week I wanted to return home. However, Pasha Vorobyov, with whom we came to Edinburgh, said: “Let’s stay a little longer, maybe we’ll get involved.” He persuaded me, we stayed and played out the season to the end.

– Do you remember any comical incidents that, as they say, made your hair stand on end?

- Yes, something was constantly happening there! Upon arrival, we asked: “Why do trainings start so late here – at half past ten in the evening?” They answered us: “So the guys only come home from work at eight.” One Canadian who was on the team said that in the summer he goes home to Vancouver and fishes. He gets up at three in the morning, gets on a boat and catches lobsters, and at noon he hands them over and receives cash. There, in the off-season, almost all hockey players do part-time work. This was unusual for us.

– So you and Vorobyov were the only professional players in the club?

“Besides us, there are at most five more people.” At the local Sports Palace, the sides are made of brick; they are only trimmed with plastic on the outside. The club did not have money to have people on the penalty benches and open the gates during matches. Remote players had to climb over the sides. There are a lot of little things like that. I remembered the movie “Snap”, where the team went to games on the same bus with their fans. The fans played guitars and the hockey players sang. We had something similar.

– Was the sports regime in the team at least somewhat respected?

“Everyone treated him differently. But there, if a person is “stale,” he could simply write an SMS message to the coach: “I’m tired, I’m sick.” He responded: “Okay, rest!” As a result, it happened that after a day off, seven people came to training. Everyone else was “sick.”

– Was Edinburgh’s mentor local?

– No, Czech Michal Dobron, who was a player-coach. After his shift, he came to the bench all steamed up, but he still had to manage the team somehow. Once I even got the gates mixed up. We all constantly had to tell him something.

In general, stories happened there almost every day. It’s just a pity that we didn’t manage to go to the football game. But our matches always fell on Saturday and Sunday, and in the English Premier League games also take place on weekends. So we didn't see Wembley.

Evgeniy Yurievich Fedorov(born November 11, Nizhny Tagil) - Russian hockey player, center forward of HC Sputnik Nizhny Tagil. A student of the Yekaterinburg hockey schools “Yunost” and “Spartakovets”.

Biography

The 2009/2010 KHL season turned out to be the most successful in Evgeny Fedorov’s career. Then, as part of the modest, at first glance, “HC MVD”, he reached the KHL final, where in a difficult, seven-game struggle, his team lost to the “Ak Bars” club. “Ak Bars” won the championship for the second time in its history, and “HC MVD” ceased to exist and merged with Dynamo Moscow.

Achievements

• Second prize-winner of the Russian Championship in 2002 and 2010.
• Third prize-winner of the Russian Championship in 2004, 2008 and 2009.
• Winner of KECH 2008
• Second prize-winner of the 2009 Champions League
• Second prize-winner of the tournament “Ceske Poishtovna” 2001.
• Second prize-winner at the 2000 Youth World Championships.

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The Battle of Borodino, with the subsequent occupation of Moscow and the flight of the French, without new battles, is one of the most instructive phenomena in history.
All historians agree that the external activities of states and peoples, in their clashes with each other, are expressed by wars; that directly, as a result of greater or lesser military successes, the political power of states and peoples increases or decreases.
No matter how strange the historical descriptions are of how some king or emperor, having quarreled with another emperor or king, gathered an army, fought with the enemy army, won a victory, killed three, five, ten thousand people and, as a result, conquered the state and an entire people of several millions; no matter how incomprehensible it may be why the defeat of one army, one hundredth of all the forces of the people, forced the people to submit, all the facts of history (as far as we know it) confirm the justice of the fact that greater or lesser successes of the army of one people against the army of another people are the reasons or, according to at least significant signs of an increase or decrease in the strength of nations. The army was victorious, and the rights of the victorious people immediately increased to the detriment of the vanquished. The army suffered defeat, and immediately, according to the degree of defeat, the people are deprived of their rights, and when their army is completely defeated, they are completely subjugated.
This has been the case (according to history) from ancient times to the present day. All Napoleon's wars serve as confirmation of this rule. According to the degree of defeat of the Austrian troops, Austria is deprived of its rights, and the rights and strength of France increase. The French victory at Jena and Auerstätt destroys the independent existence of Prussia.
But suddenly in 1812 the French won a victory near Moscow, Moscow was taken, and after that, without new battles, not Russia ceased to exist, but the army of six hundred thousand ceased to exist, then Napoleonic France. It is impossible to stretch the facts to the rules of history, to say that the battlefield in Borodino remained with the Russians, that after Moscow there were battles that destroyed Napoleon’s army.
After the Borodino victory of the French, there was not a single general battle, but not a single significant one, and the French army ceased to exist. What does it mean? If this were an example from the history of China, we could say that this phenomenon is not historical (a loophole for historians when something does not fit their standards); if the matter concerned a short-term conflict, in which small numbers of troops were involved, we could accept this phenomenon as an exception; but this event took place before the eyes of our fathers, for whom the issue of life and death of the fatherland was being decided, and this war was the greatest of all known wars...
The period of the 1812 campaign from the Battle of Borodino to the expulsion of the French proved that a won battle is not only not the reason for conquest, but is not even a permanent sign of conquest; proved that the power that decides the fate of peoples lies not in the conquerors, not even in armies and battles, but in something else.
French historians, describing the position of the French army before leaving Moscow, claim that everything in the Great Army was in order, except for the cavalry, artillery and convoys, and there was no fodder to feed horses and cattle. Nothing could help this disaster, because the surrounding men burned their hay and did not give it to the French.
The won battle did not bring the usual results, because the men Karp and Vlas, who after the French came to Moscow with carts to plunder the city and did not personally show heroic feelings at all, and all the countless number of such men did not carry hay to Moscow for the good money that they They offered it, but they burned it.

Let's imagine two people who went out to duel with swords according to all the rules of fencing art: fencing lasted for quite a long time; suddenly one of the opponents, feeling wounded - realizing that this was not a joke, but concerned his life, threw down his sword and, taking the first club he came across, began to swing it. But let us imagine that the enemy, having so wisely used the best and simplest means to achieve his goal, at the same time inspired by the traditions of chivalry, would want to hide the essence of the matter and would insist that he, according to all the rules of art, won with swords. One can imagine what confusion and ambiguity would arise from such a description of the duel that took place.
The fencers who demanded fighting according to the rules of art were the French; his opponent, who threw down his sword and raised his club, were Russians; people who try to explain everything according to the rules of fencing are historians who wrote about this event.
Since the fire of Smolensk, a war began that did not fit any previous legends of war. The burning of cities and villages, retreat after battles, Borodin’s attack and retreat again, abandonment and fire of Moscow, catching marauders, rehiring transports, guerrilla warfare - all these were deviations from the rules.
Napoleon felt this, and from the very time when he stopped in Moscow in the correct pose of a fencer and instead of the enemy’s sword he saw a club raised above him, he never ceased to complain to Kutuzov and Emperor Alexander that the war was waged contrary to all the rules (as if there were some rules for killing people). Despite the complaints of the French about non-compliance with the rules, despite the fact that the Russians, the people of higher position, seemed for some reason ashamed to fight with a club, but wanted, according to all the rules, to take the position en quarte or en tierce [fourth, third], to make a skillful lunge in prime [the first], etc. - the club of the people's war rose with all its formidable and majestic strength and, without asking anyone's tastes and rules, with stupid simplicity, but with expediency, without considering anything, it rose, fell and nailed the French until those until the entire invasion was destroyed.
And good for the people who, not like the French in 1813, saluted according to all the rules of art and turned the sword over with the hilt, gracefully and courteously handing it over to the magnanimous winner, but good for the people who, in a moment of trial, without asking how they acted according to the rules others in similar cases, with simplicity and ease, pick up the first club he comes across and nail it with it until in his soul the feeling of insult and revenge is replaced by contempt and pity.