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Alexei Shevchenko, a spokesman for the Russian media Sport-Express, has revealed that Bob Hartley, head coach of the Omsk Avangard club in the Continental Hockey League (KHL), has a different attitude towards local hockey players and legionnaires.
Hartley is working in Russia for the third season. If in his debut he managed to take the team to the Gagarin Cup final, then last season “Avangard” withdrew from the fight in the first round of the “play-off”, losing Ufa’s “Salavat Yulaev”. At the beginning of this season, the Omsk club won four races in a row, but in the previous match they recognized the superiority of the Ufa club.
Shevchenko has been known to criticize Hartley for some time. There is a tense relationship between the two, the Canadian specialist has not been talking for some time and will not even greet the journalist. At the same time, Shevchenko communicates closely with Avangard hockey players, as the team is currently playing in the Moscow region of Balashikha, where Shevchenko himself lives.
Comparing Salavat Yulaev head coach Tommy Lams and Hartley, the reviewer notes that the Ufa co-driver is less authoritarian in his dealings with the players. “Lamsa allows foreigners to play and live with pleasure. Yes, there are requirements, but Russian hockey players, with the possible exception of young people, live with pleasure, because the coach does not make anyone nervous. Hartley does not touch the legionaries, but terrorizes the Russians. Because they are Russians, “Shevchenko said in his program.
Earlier, the journalist criticized Hartley for his behavior in the Avangard match against Khabarovsk’s Amur (8: 2), because the Canadian also put the best hockey players on the field at the end of the match.
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