April 23, 2003, 00:00, №74 (16026)
Author: Dmitry PonomarenkoSergey Chuev
Tomorrow will be 40 years to the day since CSKA striker Benjamin Alexandrov set a phenomenal record, scoring in the national championship 53 goals. CSKA Moscow in the season 1962/63 held 37 matches. It is easy to calculate that Alexander threw almost two goals per game.
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Closest to the now seemingly fantastic achievement Veniamin Alexandrov came in the last forty years, another striker CSKA Moscow - Vladimir Petrov. In the USSR Championship-1969/70, he scored 51 goal - only two less than the champion. Since then, the mark "50" could not reach anyone.
Tarasov hold
- Vladimir Vladimirovich, to a record you do not have quite a bit. When approached him know how much remained to score?
- Imagine not. But Anatoly Tarasov knew and apparently did not want me to hit the target. How Come? We can only guess. Whether he thought I was too young for this, whether the matter is something else. One way or another, and Tarasov began suddenly to give me much less opportunity to play on the power play. I tell the guys that I do not understand why this happens. They told me: "What are you, like a record performance to beat?" Me: "What other record?" I had no idea who scored 53 goals, who - much more. So just do not think about it, all by itself going.
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- What does this mean?
- First of all, the low level of mastery of modern players. We often hear that the case is different: change, say, a game. Yes, in our hockey today is really dominated by defensive tactics. This is definitely a negative impact on performance. But the main thing is different. No penetrative power of the attackers, no new Alexandrov or Kharlamovs that could beat defenders 1 to 1 and even more - 1 in 2. Perhaps schools now educate players anyway? And here already is and tactics. Not what the coaches are not specifically want their team worked with an emphasis on attack. The presence of a certain level of skill players just involves the choice of tactics.
He studied at the ALEXANDROVA
- Prior to the creation of the legendary trio Mikhailov - Petrov - Kharlamov you played with Benjamin Alexandrov in one link. It is possible in this case to say that you learned from him the most direct way?
- Not only possible, but necessary. In general, we have learned from the triple [undrafted] - [undrafted] - Alexander, who had been leading CSKA, and the team, and then we became the successor of the great masters. By the way, took me in his time Tarasov from "Wings of the Soviets" in place to finish his career in exactly [undrafted]'s position to [undrafted] and Alexandrov. He then combined and the team we had planned to include. Although I am a center forward, Anatoly saw me on the edge. But then, when [undrafted] finished playing, I became the center together with Mikhailov and Alexandrov.