On Sparta’s ice, the reigning champions went to the penalty bench eight times and lost 2:3 in overtime. Under Ještěd, they “only” pecked six times. “After the match in Sparta, we had meetings and talked about not being expelled and not talking to the referees. But now it was bad from us again and I hope it was the last game we had so many sent offs. We cannot play more matches like this in a row, otherwise the opponents will take advantage of it,” Libor Hudáček, the author of Třinecké’s first goal, knew very well.
However, Liberec was unable to take advantage of their opponent’s offenses even once. But for me, our indiscipline is disappointing,” admitted Třinec coach Zdeněk Moták, whose team “led” in fouls after the second period 6:0.
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“The team plays excellently in the five-on-five game. It was all there, we were really pressing but our dismissals were letting us down. You’re playing well, the fade comes and you go down. Then only some get on the ice, that’s an old hockey truth. We have to improve in this and we have to avoid penalties,” Moták appealed to his charges. He was only pleased that it wasn’t a case of unsportsmanlike conduct.
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Třinec coach Zdeněk Moták.
“We talk about it with the players all the time, we constantly appeal for discipline, both in-game and that which manifests itself in eventual expulsion. And neither here nor at Sparta were the fouls resulting from the opponent outplaying us, they were simply stupid,” he was annoyed.
Especially in the second period, his team had one less player for almost eight minutes. “We were better in the five-on-five game, but we played an awful lot when we were weakened, where I can only praise my teammates, who defended it well there. They jumped into the shots and Mazi (Mazanec) caught it all. Hats off to them,” Libor Hudáček praised his teammates, who once faced a double advantage of almost half a minute.
“We knew that Liberec had weak numbers in the power play, but in the last matches the game in overnumbering was already going well for them, so the guys watched them on video several times and knew very well how they would play,” remarked Hudáček. Třinec returned from a trip to the ice of Sparta and Liberec with four points. “We can be uneaten, but we must not clap,” concluded Moták.
2023-11-01 16:09:38
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