Andrei Nazarov will become the new head coach of HC Sochi, Chempionat.com reports.

Andrey Nazarov will become the head coach of the Sochi hockey club. He will replace Yevgeny Stavrovsky, who was dismissed by the team’s management. The club came to such a decision after the defeat from Omsk “Avangard”. The meeting, which took place the day before, ended with a score of 3: 1 in favor of the Siberians.

• 20 years ago, Andrei Nazarov was considered the main Russian tough guy in the NHL. He looked decent against any overseas fighter.
• 16 years ago, guarding Jagr in Avangard, he fought desperately with the whole bench of Lokomotiv.
• 13 years ago Andrei Nazarov became the youngest coach in the history of the KHL.

He worked with varying degrees of success with Traktor, Donbass, SKA, Barys and Severstal. Nazarov’s last club was Neftekhimik, which he left in December 2018. In addition, he defended the national teams of Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

In the current season of the Continental Hockey League, HC Sochi won only three victories in 13 and with eight points the southerners are at the bottom of the conference standings.

Earlier, “Zhivaya Kuban” wrote that hockey players from Goryachiy K won the “Victory Cup” with clubs and fists. In Saratov, a hockey match between the Olimp team from Samara and Iceberg Goryachy Klyuch ended in a fight. 13-year-old athletes figured out the relationship on the ice. At the end of the confrontation, young hockey players pounced on each other with fists. The scuffle lasted for several minutes. Not only judges, but also coaches and even parents had to run out into the arena. Together, the teenagers managed to separate. The video broadcast of the match was conducted online on one of the YouTube channels. As a result, the match was not finished by the decision of the judges. And the victory, both in this fight and at the end of the entire tournament, went to the guys from Goryachiy Klyuch. Iceberg has 13 points scored. The runner-up HC Tambov has four points less. As for the hockey players from Samara, they became only the fifth in the tournament.

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