The coach of the Kazakhstan national team reacted to the 1:8 defeat at the 2025 Youth Hockey World Cup – Hockey

Mentor of the Kazakhstan youth hockey team Sergey Starygin commented on the last match of the 2025 World Cup against Sweden (1:8), Sports.kz reports with reference to Icehockey.kz.

— The first match in this division, especially the first period, was very unsuccessful, maybe there was some excitement, we couldn’t handle it. We hope that the next games will be much more interesting.

— Do you think there was excitement after all?
– I think yes. They are not the first to do this. You encounter this all the time. The only thing was that it was not expected that the first period would be such a failure, 0:5 right away, but it is what it is.

– But we know the guys, they didn’t play as well as they really could?
– No, of course, definitely. The first period was truly a failure, what exactly was shown to the guys was a video and was analyzed in this way, and here in training they emphasized this, but it didn’t work out.

– First match and…