“I realized that I was already ripe to work as a head coach. Russia is one of the options “, says Brylin about his career – Hockey
Assistant to the head coach of the New Jersey farm club, three-time Stanley Cup winner Sergey Brylin said that he would like to work as a head coach.
– You have been working as an assistant in the AHL for a long time. Thinking about a career as a head coach?
– I will not hide, of course, there were such thoughts. I realized that I was already ripe to work as a head coach. It remains only to find a team that will offer me this job.
– Did you have any offers from Russia?
– We talked in the summer, but it didn’t come to a specific conversation on the contract. So far, the teams were only interested in my plans and the desire to work here. It will be easier to get back to work there. But I do not discard other possibilities either.
– Have you noticed the differences between the Russian and North American coaching schools?
– Now everything is confused, and hockey, in principle, is similar everywhere. Therefore, I don’t think there are any special differences. So it’s hard for me to judge. In the last years of my career, at SKA, I had foreign coaches, and only in Novokuznetsk, Anatoly Emelin. I can say that all coaches who work at a high level are prepared equally. Another thing is to find an approach to hockey players, – said Brylin.