Canadian defender Joe Morrow has become the new "tractor" in the defense of "Barys" after the transfer of Darren Dietz to CSKA Moscow. The legionnaire of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) has already played matches when the 29-year-old hockey player played "practically without substitutions." More details - in the material of the correspondent bbabo.net.
The Moscow club's rookie joined the team during the regular season, and scored the first goal for Barys in the second match. The powerful defender got a place in a duet with Diez, playing for more than 20 minutes in a meeting. Morrow, one might say, immediately fit into the Barys, but at the beginning of October he was injured, which put him out of action for a month and a half.
December turned out to be the most productive for the Canadian, when number 70 gave four assists, and his overall statistic reached seven (2 + 5) points. Here he is inferior not only to Diez (9 + 12), but also to Olle Alsing (2 + 8) with Eric Martinsson (0 + 10). The same quartet of players plays the largest amount of time on average per match (for all - from 20 and a half minutes and more per game).
In the match against Avtomobilist, which Barys played first after the official announcement of Ditz's departure, Morrow played 24 and a half minutes, spending more time on the ice than all other field players of both teams. But this is not the longest match of the Canadian in the KHL, because in November he played about 27 minutes against Severstal, setting a personal record in the League.
But even in such a situation, the rate of the coaching staff is visible. “Barys” in the current season of the KHL played eight defenders - without Dits uses seven. According to the match with Avtomobilist, they can be divided into several categories. The first will include those who play for about ten minutes, the second - about 15. The third will include defenders who are trusted for 18-19 minutes, and then Morrow goes. The new favorite in the defense of Barys.
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Let us remind you that Barys will continue their away streak with matches in Kazan and Chelyabinsk - on December 23 they will play with Ak Bars, and on the 25th with Traktor. Opponents are higher in position: Chelyabinsk - in second place in the "East", and Kazan - fourth.
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