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The Continental Hockey League (KHL) held, possibly , the unexpected resignation of the coach in its history. By “family reasons” from the post SKA coach Vyacheslav Bykov left. Under his leadership, St. Petersburg last season made a breakthrough, converting the first major cash investment club in the Gagarin Cup. Who will replace Vyacheslav Bykov, it is still unknown, but the leaders of the SKA said that his successor will be a Russian expert.
St. Petersburg SKA announced his departure from the club worked in the last season of his head coach Vyacheslav Bykov. With him the team left St. Petersburg aide Igor Bykov Zaharkin. Himself a coach, commenting on the news, said that “invited to St. Petersburg to solve specific problems and achieve certain goals”, and now, when the tasks performed on the “family circumstances” forced to suspend cooperation with the team. The version supported by family circumstances and the St. Petersburg club.
Whatever it was caused by the resignation of Vyacheslav Bykov, it is certainly by the standards of the sport emergencies and looks no less strange than a huge break, who was coaching career Bykov before he found himself in the SKA.
At the end of the last decade, Vyacheslav Bykov was considered by far the best among all the domestic hockey coaches. That led Bykov Russian team in 2008 regained the world title, but won in 1993. The following season, she repeated this success. In addition, in 2011, he led the Bulls to glory in the CHL Ufa “Salavat Yulaev”. And that’s after him, already dismissed from the national team of Russia after a series of its failures, including failures relative, he was not long out of work until the option to wait for the SKA.
Petersburgers since the founding of the CHL, that is, since 2008, included in the list of the most successful clubs in it and, in the opinion of most experts, not just included, and it was headed. They are well staffed, we experienced no problems with financing. However, to convert a well-being in the corresponding result did not succeed. During these six years, SKA had to train five foreign mentors, among them were very famous teachers – like Barry Smith or American Finn Jukka Jalonen. None of them was able to bring the team back at least to the final play-off.
Vyacheslav Bykov SKA made a breakthrough at least spectacular than with the national team. Last season the army team were finally able to combine a successful performance in the regular season with excellent achievements in the play-off. SKA took its first Gagarin Cup, having created in the semifinal series against the most dangerous opponent – CSKA – hockey prodigy (he won it, yielding 0: 3), and then, in the final in disposing of the powerful-looking “Ak Bars”. It is with the bulls in SKA formed and revealed which turned actually into a shock force of the national team at the May world championship flight of Artemia Panarin, Vadim Shipacheva and Eugene Dadonova and veteran star Ilya Kovalchuk in play-off demonstrated, perhaps the best hockey of his life.
Judging by the statements of the leaders of the SKA, which for the resignation of Vyacheslav Bykov was also quite an event. This is evidenced by the fact that yesterday, is no certainty to those who will replace him on the coaching position, have arisen. And vice president of the SKA Roman Rotenberg, and a member of the board of directors of the club, Alexander Medvedev, given the apparently previous bad experiences, however, stressed that it could only be a Russian expert. But free Russian specialists with good backgrounds in the market today, virtually none.
There is nothing strange that immediately after the announcement of the resignation of Vyacheslav Bykov was reported that the SKA supposedly negotiating with Oleg Znarkom. He currently can be considered as the frontman of the coaching workshop: after fruitful work in the “Dynamo” Znarok led the Russian team twice in a row and brought it to the finals of the world championships, winning the one that took place last year in Minsk. However, the press service of the SKA immediately denied the rumors. “Oleg Znarok is the head coach of the Russian national team, and with the agreement of clubs, KHL and Russian Hockey Federation interests of the national team is a priority for all parties,” – said in its statement. SKA President Gennady Timchenko yesterday frankly admitted that “he did not expect” the resignation of Vyacheslav Bykov, and on the question of candidates for the post of coach replied that they had not.
Meanwhile, the search for a new coach SKA will have to hurry. The fact is that at the height of summer the team will go on preseason. Alexander Medvedev has promised to decide on a successor candidate Bykov until the end of June.
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