“Of course I’m happy for the hat-trick, but I’m not just there for goals. I’m mainly happy for winning, we scored some points in the table in the situation we are in. Goals are nice, but in our situation it doesn’t matter. We need to anyone enforced and we had points, “Plekanec told reporters after the match, which Kladno won 5: 3.
Plekanec has scored three goals in the extra league twice, in the 2012/13 season at the exclusion of the NHL he always managed to do it against Pardubice. Today he completed a hat-trick during the final power play of Motor. “If I was thinking about a hat-trick? Not at all. It was a goal, one can’t look at it. I tried, but to admit, I didn’t want to shoot too much. I wanted to throw the puck away so he wouldn’t be icing. he got there, it’s great, “he said, repeating that he definitely doesn’t consider himself a shooter. “I focus on a lot of other things. But when such a match comes out, every player is happy,” he said.
The junior world champion, who then also competed in the Senior World Cups, Olympic Games and the World Cup, made his mark for the first time today at the 27th minute. Five minutes earlier, Dominik Hrachovina caught him in the same situation. “We did not concentrate on similar moments, it came out of the situation. We blocked the puck and then it happily passed the goalkeeper between their legs. I am glad for that, an important goal for us,” said Plekanec.
Kladno players are happy with the goal.Photo: Ondřej Hájek, ČTK
In addition, the striker with more than a thousand starts in the NHL also won the power play. At first he prepared a beautiful goal for Adam Kubík and then he scored himself. “In the first case, it opened up for me there. Maybe they were waiting for a shot or a pass on the player around the goal. Hesitation was said to be behind his goal, when he hit the top corner of the goal. “I didn’t have much left,” he said.
Despite the two numerical advantages used, Plekanec was not very satisfied with this game activity from a Kladno point of view. “We’re looking for powerlifters. We’ve changed the lineup and it’s still not it. We’ve scored two goals today, but there are still a lot of mistakes. It’s one of the things we have to do better. We need to have at least some pressure in them. when no goal is scored. That did not happen today, “Plekanec said.
Today, Kladno scored in the fourth game in a row, which it did for the first time this season. “From this point of view, this is definitely the best time of the season. But we could have had many more points. We lost the matches unnecessarily. during the season. “I believe that we have made a line now and will continue. And that we are collecting enough points to make it to us for a good position,” he wished.
The Knights currently have an eleven points lead over the last Zlín, which Plekanec does not overestimate. “I answered the same question a month ago if we could breathe better and suddenly it was six points. There are still an awful lot of matches ahead of us. We’ll see how it turns out. We have to play at least as we play in the last matches, and I believe it will turn out well, “he said.
Kladno again had to do without the help of the playing owner Jaromír Jágr, who is not fit. “We’re used to it. We don’t experience it. It’s how he feels. We just adapt the lines and style of play a bit. He plays when he needs to,” Plekanec said. The legendary striker, however, has traditionally not been missing from the substitute, and when capacity is limited, he was quite audible in the arena. “He was still calm today, he is roaring much more. Today he was quite calm on the switch,” the Captain of the Knights smiled.
