TIPOS Extraliga: HK Nitra hockey players dramatized the finals (reactions)

Košice. Košice hockey players did not wish, this time already sold out Steel Arena, master celebrations.

After two victories in Nitra won in the series 3: 1 for matches and the stadium was certainly cooled by champagne, apparently prepared were also championship caps and winning cigars.

But as in the semi -final series with Zvolen did not take advantage of home ice first mečbal and after losing 2: 4 They have a chance to reparate on Sunday in Nitra, where the final fight will continue with the sixth match.

« It is difficult to evaluate such a home game in such a state of the series. Unfortunately, we did not manage it not only the results but also the gambling.

There were some expectations and when they are big, it usually doesn’t turn out. We have to fold our heads, start working as we worked before and I believe we will make it to the winning end.

We finished the first two play off series outside, so I hope this rule will be confirmed.

But it’s hockey, it’s a sport, and we always have to work hard to deserve the victory, whether in the sixth or seventh match. But I believe that we will take the last step, ”believes Košice striker Tomáš Mikúš.

Blind Third goal

Already at the beginning of the second minute Kosice played the first of nine power plays in the match. They did not score and the first power play was not used by the guests.

The home team did not punish further exclusion of the guests and after less than a quarter of an hour the guests went to the lead when the strong Jaedon Descheneau pushed the puck in front of Jaroslav Janus’s back in front of the goal.

The Košice people did not immediately use a double penalty for Luke Green and when the audience began to clump in front of the buffet, six seconds before the end of the first period Miloš Bubela, between two defenders Košice shot Janus and sent a goal to Nitra to the two -goal lead.

The Košice people returned to the match after two minutes of the second period, when Olivier Ruzambault reduced the difference of a single goal.

Then they had several good chances, but there was a fatal mistake by Josh Teves, who was sending a puck from behind his own goal, but found only a completely lonely Samir Gill between the circles and he gave Janus no chance.

“We started with good energy, we had opportunities to do something about the match, and the audience drove us forward, but then there were some individual mistakes and instead of going into the lead, the opposite happened.

Of course, the problem was our power play, which were not effective and Nitrania played very well today in weakening.

It is a great warning for me that we got three goals today in a balanced state and in our offensive zone we played not exactly what we would like to play.

The third goal stopped us because we got Momentum and we were driven by spectators. But this happens in such series, ”said the third goal as a turning point and coach Dan Ceman.

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Riečický for the first time in action

In the middle of the second period Nitra managed to use power play and after the goal of Tomáš Hrnka and goalkeeper Janus for the first time in the playoffs released the place in Košice goal Dominik Riečický.

In the last five minutes of the second period, the Košiceians did not use the power play again, even a 24 seconds lasting game of five against three and in this trend continued in the third period.

They managed to reduce to the final 2: 4 less than five minutes before the end of the third period, when Róbert Bač was dismissed from the goal of Riečický and Power Play was used by Brett Pollock by two players.

Less than two minutes before the end of the end of Mark Stachu, but they could no longer dramatize the match.

« It is hard to say if we were surprised by something. Rather, we are a bit of an angle from our tactics on our side, it was not ideal especially when it comes to game discipline and we have to change that, » Mikúš said to the question of whether they were surprised by something in Nitra.

Both Košice striker and coach Dan Ceman confirmed before the sixth match in Nitra that they must forget the failed fifth as quickly as possible.

« Now we have to go back to our basics. We have to concentrate on the match that awaits us in Nitra. To forget what has happened now. And we know it will be a fight, » Ceman added.

The cramp was replaced by release

« From our side a great match, this is how we imagine it, playing our game, being fast and pushing into the goal, » said the match Nitra striker Bubela, the author of the goal in the dressing room at the end of the first period. As he added, it was decisive that they had better heads with their teammates.

Tomáš Hrnka also agreed with him, who after the semifinal and final pause he saw his third goal in the playoffs.

« We thought we didn’t think that we didn’t play in a cramp, because the last matches were not such freedom on the offensive or the defensive. Today we played more relaxed and it was seen, » said the Nitra heads setting after two home losses.

Video: Tomáš Hrnka responds after the match Košice – Nitra

Coach Andrej Kmeč also praised his men.

“We knew what we were going to what the match means to us and of course, which means to Košice. The match could decide the final.

From the beginning, the guys performed enormously team performance that led us to victory. Many dedications, many good things, a lot of defended weakens that have been digged. We didn’t have a lot of power plays, but we could use one.

Every single player today reached the bottom of the force and the goal we set before this match to return the series to Nitra, we managed to fulfill, ”said Kmeč.

Under pressure both

The sixth match of the final is played on Sunday. The question is whether the Košice people will use the second mečbal and confirm their excellent balance of opponents or Nitra for the first time in the finals on home ice and the words of Košice coach Dan Ceman, who after the second match, said that the Košice people are ready for a long seven -match series.

« We have a short time to regenerate. The audience will be hot as well, and we are looking forward to the next match.

We are glad that we attracted the finals again. We have shown today that we do not give up, we want to win the next match and let everything decide in the seventh match, ”hopes Nitra Tomáš Hrnka, who also perceives the situation of Košice people, but also the pressure after which both rivals will play in the sixth match.

« The final step is difficult for everyone. We were in a similar situation in the series with Žilina. Both are playing well and badly under pressure. They were under pressure today that they wanted to celebrate.

We under the pressure that the season could have ended for us. We’ll see how it will be in the next match. Again, we will be under pressure, too, ”thinks.

According to Bubel, they have to continue the game at home they showed in Košice. According to him, it is also the fact that they scored more than two goals in the final series for the first time in the final series.

“We believe we will succeed in the sixth match, we are returning home. We have to continue what we played today.

We have always been an offensive team, we always pushed it there and I think it broke out today and we scored the goals we expect, ”he added.

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