Karlovy Vary have crashed four times in a row and are second from bottom in the table. Not even 31 shots were enough to score points in the derby. “Our game looked good. We have effort and effort. You can’t win without goals,” commented captain Jiří Černoch. Assistant coach Vojtěch Šik also commented on the duel. “We haven’t scored a goal again. We needlessly complicate the power play and we miss our shot,” he said.
Plzeň also had no numerical advantage, playing nine of them, including a long five against three. She made the situation too complicated for herself, but she saved herself by taking advantage of the initial power play right away. Unusually from half-time and from the first shot on goal. “I didn’t even know it,” smiled the author of the hit, Petr Kodýtek.
The Indians then refused to extend the lead, for example, during a two-to-none break and had to worry about winning until the closing seconds. The visitors created a lot of pressure in the power play, and were playing six against four for a while when Kodýtka hit the stick in the face. “Then I discovered that I had been hit by a teammate’s stick. I lay down and thought I had a split lip. Luckily I’m fine, I got up and continued to play. And we held on,” said the center of Pilsen.
The home team was no longer oriented towards hockey in the derby, however, as coach Petr Kořínek also appreciated, they defended the narrow lead with dedication in the end. “The boys hit shots well. “Hockey is hard work and in this direction the players left everything on the ice,” the coach praised, and Kodýtek also agreed. “A hard-fought victory, very valuable. The goalkeeper made us go forward” Dominika Pavláta praised.
He is the clear number one when Miroslav Svoboda is ill. “I don’t feel much pressure, I’m fine,” he laughed after his second clean sheet of the season. Škoda’s cockpit has been troubled by a virus in recent days, but most of the players have already returned to the pitch. “It’s not the ideal, but perhaps we are out of the worst,” believes Zámorský.
