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Why does Russia play so far below their potential?

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Riddum

Riddum

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Is it coaching? Is it their Defense? Are they mismanaging their assets? Unable to accept reduced roles? Etc...

I know it's a best on best tournament but they've been thoroughly ouplayed so far. Despite the results.

If I was the coach, I would give the most ice time to Panarin. Guys like Ovi would have to accept lesser roles. Gotta give more ice time to the best guys and the hottest players.

What do you think is the problem?
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Their defense has been pretty poor the past decade or so

plus ovi never shows up internationally
 
They don't have good Dmen relative to other hockey powers.
 
Bad coaching.

Russia with a Canadian coach would have won at least a gold medal or two by now.
 
If they fail to make the medal round it will be interesting to see if major changes are made or if they stay as is.
 
A good roster on paper never guarantees success. I think Russia is struggling with archaic coaching, mediocre defense and their best players keep underperforming - Ovi has always been horrible in national games.
 
Their defense hasn't been good for a long time.

They definitely need to build their team around Panarin and Kuznetsov.

Let the old guard take a back seat.
 
It's not even that good of a lineup on paper. The D is part of the team. Though Bob might overcome that (like tonight).
 
I would say defense and bad coaching are Russia's biggest problem. They have all the fire power in the world but without defense and structure they always struggle.
 
Riddum said:
Why? Kucherov, Panarin and Tarasenko have clearly been the 3 best Russian forward so far.
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It's exhibition games.

Ovechkin is the greatest goalscorer of his generation and the best Russian forward, giving him a reduced role would guarantee they don't go far.
 
Ovechkin should play on the 4th line reduced minutes, and be purely PP specialist.

I dunno what they should do with Malkin. Bring Mozyakin over and create Mozyakin-Malkin-Kulemin? :D
 
Riddum said:
Is it coaching? Is it their Defense? Are they mismanaging their assets? Unable to accept reduced roles? Etc...

I know it's a best on best tournament but they've been thoroughly ouplayed so far. Despite the results.

If I was the coach, I would give the most ice time to Panarin. Guys like Ovi would have to accept lesser roles. Gotta give more ice time to the best guys and the hottest players.

What do you think is the problem?
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Coaching:

Bykov was a liberal who created a neat atmopsphere in the locker room, but had no concept, ecpecially when a tough game was on the line. He obviously expected players to do things on their own.

Billyaletdinov just turned his own opposite right before the Olympics. God knows why. His strange decisions before and during Olympics were just mind boggling.

Znarok lacks thorough hockey knowledge and lets his personal quarrels get in the way.

So 3 coaches in a row weren't exactly a recipe for success.

Mismanaging assents is part of the coaching problem.

Defence is not top notch obviosly. There seems to be a big gap between the last great generation of russian deencemen and the next one if it is on the horizon with Provorom, Sergachev and likes.

Reduced roles is not the problem I think. But the above factors are enough to hinder some top performance.
 
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