“Our guys were not a cut above Canadians. But Russia had one of the best matches in the tournament, I agree with that. If you do not take the very ending of the game, then the Russian hockey players looked quite convincing. It was a competent and solid game, but, unfortunately, the ending of the match was not ours. We can say that fortune has a little turned away from us, ”Sport24 quotes a specialist.
In his opinion, with the score 3: 1 in favor of the Russian national team, her coaching staff had to do something.
“Our guys played the game until we received unnecessary deletions. It was a worthy finale, Russia looked very good. Everything happens in sports, ”concluded Plushenko.
Earlier, striker “youth” Nikita Alexandrov admitted that the Russians themselves are to blame for the defeat from the Canadians.
RT hosted an online text broadcast of the final meeting of the 2020 Youth Hockey World Championship between the national teams of Russia and Canada.