The comet fell again. She is mediocre and Mueller is not young, warns the expert
With renowned coach Jiří Kalous and resounding Slovak reinforcements, the hockey players of Kometa, unlike the coronavirus season 2020/2021, had to bother the best in the extraleague. Instead, they performed even worse in the evaluation of the Czech highest competition. After last year’s seventh place, they fell to the tenth position, which will end after Thursday’s elimination from the preliminary round of the playoffs with Liberec and a loss of 1: 6 in the fifth match.
Sport hockey pre-round play-off 5th match Liberec – Kometa Brno
| Photo: White Tigers Liberec
“The comet might have more to do if it got another opponent than Liberec in the preliminary round, even though there was not much to choose from. But Brno was average, that’s a fact. It is a problem of Czech hockey that you bring up a generation of players who collect successes, but they cannot play until they are 90 years old. When the architects of success leave, you must either raise or buy. And Kometa is now also putting funds into the new hall, so there aren’t that many, “said television expert David Pospíšil.
In the pre-round of the playoffs, Kometa probably showed the best performances in everything. Ambitious Liberec suffered and got her main match. “She lost the last match 1: 6, but at some point you let it go and it’s moving. In the playoffs, it doesn’t matter if you lose 0:50 or 0: 1. Otherwise, it was a balanced series, “admitted Pospíšil.
However, the comet missed the unsuccessful season mainly in the basic part full of fluctuations and non-fatal performances. The end of Jiří Kalous on Kometa’s substitute is thus probable, he should be trusted to get former assistant Libor Zábranský in the championship 2016/2017 Martin Pešout, who has successfully coached Karlovy Vary in the last five years. “With the opportunities he has there, Pešout does a good job. I dare not predict how he will perform in a team with far greater possibilities, “admitted Pospíšil.
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But even Pešout will hardly change the problem that has always returned to the Comet as a boomerang. The team’s performance unhealthily depends on the game’s first form, consisting of Peter Mueller, Petr Holík and Martin Zaťovič.
Even the most resounding Kometa reinforcements for this season, Michal Krištof and defender Marek Ďalog, were able to compete with them in the playoffs. “There was almost no one to make more than two points in the playoffs besides them. When you rely on a small circle of people, it can work out. Another player should fly out. But he didn’t show up. This is a sign of Comet’s image. You have a lot of players out there who don’t make a body. It is therefore necessary to bring new or give a different role, “Pospíšil offered.
In addition, the comet is unsure of the retention of its founding stone, Mueller, whose contract ends. “Peter wants to stay and we care about him. Negotiations are ongoing, I am logically solving this with his agent, “said the owner of the club Libor Zábranský.
However, according to Pospíšil, the comet should not cling so much to Mueller; in April, the American sniper will celebrate its 34th birthday. “He will be a year longer, no one will be younger. He won’t go upstairs, rather stagnation awaits him, so Mother Nature arranged it. It’s at the peak of performance now, but the question is when it will start to fall. It can easily be a matter of a year. When it falls, it will need to be moved in the assembly and fill its place. Who? This is a question for Grandpa omniscient, because it is difficult to find such players, “Pospíšil commented.