Mårts refuse to Finland – Helsingborgs Dagblad

Since last win in 2004, Three Crowns met Russia ten times in the World Cup and the Olympics without winning.

In tournaments Channel One Cup will the victories now and then, but when it really counts is what destroyed.

It got Pär Mårts and assistant coach Peter Popovic to check through all the 19 matches against Russia since Mårts took over as coach.

For the in these tournaments it comes to finding a winning model.

– They have very good players, it is Always these (Sergei) Moziakin, (Ilya) Kovaltjuk and (Evgeni) Malkin who decides in their favor. It feels like we have not had the equivalent to the players when we met at the end, he said.

On Thursday there the first two when the teams meet in the spring World Cup stadium VTB Ice Palace in Moscow.

Mårts press the importance of using the numerical strength of the Modes and accuracy in the game without the puck.

When Tre Kronor won the Karjala Tournament in November was the loss against Russia 3-6. However, there were gameplay details that Mårts was pleased.

– It was almost the first time we played the Russians, we had many nice goal where we played the central line and almost got the empty goal. But then we made mistakes ourselves that makes us go there on four goals, he said.

Mårts want to defeat games skilled and tall Russians with creativity. Otherwise, Finland, using defensive hockey has become a ghost for the Russians.

The model refuses Mårts to use.

Not even , in its sole motto, win at all costs.

– I do not want to tread the ancient paths. For me, the people who think that people like to think it was much better before. I’m not like

that and do not intend to give me, he says.

The Channel One Cup makes KHL trio Joakim Lindstrom, SKA St. Petersburg Oscar Moller and Mattias Sjögren, both Ak Bars Kazan, seasonal debut in the national team. They formed a sharp chain in the world championships last spring.

– We hope it’ll mean a lot, they played an entire VM together and are experienced guys so I hope they will show the way for us. We get a powerful chain that opponents have problems, says Mårts.