Dynamo Minsk. Who's to blame and what to do?

“Another game in which we owned the initiative most of the time, but could not bring it to victory,” — said after the second defeat against “Sochi”, one of the worst teams of the KHL, the head coach of Minsk “Dynamo” Sergey Brylin and will be absolutely wrong. The game was frankly shoddy, and the Minskers were even lucky that they were able to translate it into overtime. 2:3 - the seventh defeat of the team in eight fights that ended outside the regular time, and even more about the lost game is not spoken, but shouts that in Russian "unlucky" is not only from the word "luck", but also from the word "riding". No luck, no luck.

Minsk’s game is a nightmare, and it is more worrying that Sergey Brylin is deceiving himself and others with ridiculous conclusions. Like we look good, but we don't score. So Tractor can say, "Torpedo." Minsk is much lower in the game, writes Russian journalist Alexey Shevchenko. His colleague Ivan Nevsky agrees: “There is nothing to say about Minsk, the team is in crisis.” And the biggest problem is that Brylin is hardly the person who is able to change the situation in a short time, otherwise Minsk will simply not fight for the playoffs. “Well, a separate topic is legionnaires – this is Radmir Sakhibgareev from Sport-Express.” It seems that the imported part of the composition scored on the result. I have no other explanation for this swamp. One Chris Tierney is somewhat above expectations, ranking among the KHL's top scorers. Everyone else should at least think. Sam Enas and Nicolas Obe-Kubel, to put it mildly, don't play for all the money. Alex Limoges is missing from the radar. He was even taken out of the roster. Apparently, to become an evil uncle from Brylin does not work. Dmitry Kvartalnov did not spare foreigners - and the club for the first time began to make noise in the playoffs. The current coach released his hand from the control panel.”.

- Of course I want to scream. Well, to swear, the conclusion of the famous Belarusian journalist Ruslan Vasiliev, unfortunately, resembles a sentence. - The main thesis. With constant changes in the game of “dents” nothing changes. Rivals are different, the plots are also different, but in principle two buttocks of the same ass. Dry writing about the games of such a wet Dynamo is very difficult. At least you can buy diapers! It seems that the hockey gods openly hint at the need for organizing conclusions at Dynamo.

The current situation of the Minsk club looks extremely contradictory. First, the gap from the strongest eight is minimal (if at all), but the neighborhood in the standings with the weakest in the league “Sochi” sets up sad thoughts. Especially when the calendar of the next matches has prepared new tests: today is a home match with Avangard, and then six games away. Secondly, Sergey Brylin, in addition to the Dynamo burden, before the start of the season, was also handed the reins of the national team, and if suddenly someone wants to dismiss him from the club, then who will rule the national team at the December Channel One Cup? Thirdly, the leadership of the club, in previous years constantly flashing on the screens, now as water in his mouth gained. Does it take a shout from the top to even begin to look closely at what (and who) is reflected in the mirror?

The Russian Ice Hockey Federation received a notification from the International Ice Hockey Federation about the inclusion of the Russian national team in the composition of the participants of the World Championship among youth teams instead of the Norwegian national team. The decision came after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ordered IIHF to allow Russian teams to all tournaments. The ICM will be held from December 26 to January 5 in Canada. At the same time, the IIHF refused to include the Belarusian team in the number of participants in the 2027 World Cup, and the youth team in the world championship among players under 20 years. “The inconsistency of approaches raises questions,” said the head of the Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation Alexander Bogdanovich. The non-admission of the Belarusian teams of the IIHF explains the need to preserve the structure and planning of tournaments, but in relation to Russia, it states the need to implement the CAS decision, which will also require a change in the composition of participants. Why the same approach has not been applied to Belarus remains unanswered.” FHB intends to protect the rights of Belarusian hockey and will soon discuss the possibility of applying to CAS.

gord@sb.by