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Character test for the SCR

2022-11-28T18:39:16.781Z


Character test for the SCR Created: 11/28/2022, 7:34 p.m By: Patrick Hilmes Does the balancing act: When dealing with the team after the two bankruptcies last weekend, SCR coach Pat Cortina chooses the middle ground between hitting and stroking. © Peter Volk Zero points last weekend: But SC Riessersee already has the chance tomorrow evening to get back on the road to success with a win against


Character test for the SCR

Created: 11/28/2022, 7:34 p.m

By: Patrick Hilmes

Does the balancing act: When dealing with the team after the two bankruptcies last weekend, SCR coach Pat Cortina chooses the middle ground between hitting and stroking.

© Peter Volk

Zero points last weekend: But SC Riessersee already has the chance tomorrow evening to get back on the road to success with a win against Deggendorfer SC.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen –

Pat Cortina knows all about uphill and downhill rides.

"It's part of sport, it's always part of a cycle." Only once in his long coaching career has he experienced a season in which this cycle of winning and losing did not occur.

That was in Italy in 1999/2000, when he and his team Asiago had only lost the second main round game and otherwise only celebrated victories – until the playoff final.

Then the series broke.

"And we couldn't react accordingly." Others celebrated the championship.

Cortina can even take positives from the two recent defeats with SC Riessersee in the ice hockey Oberliga Süd – 3:4 against Lindau, 2:4 against Bad Tölz.

Because he knows: "Losing forms characters." It remains to be seen whether this is also the case with the SCR.

But the chances are good.

After the botched start of the season, the white-blues returned improved and put down a strong series of nine wins in ten games.

Now it's time to start a new run.

You thought: It's going well."

SCR coach Pat Cortina

But Cortina cannot avoid the analysis of why the SCR has changed gondolas and is now going downhill.

The negative run had already started in Landsberg on November 20th.

Although Werdenfelser won the chaos game 9:6, Cortina's fears came true in this game.

After the 4:1 triumph against Peiting, the successful revenge for the bankruptcy on matchday four, a thought has settled in the minds of the Riesserseer, which is dangerous, which inevitably leads to a change at some point if you don't counteract it.

"They thought: It's going well." If you then only slightly lose focus, take a step less here and there, don't consistently carry out one or the other check, deviate a little from the automatisms, then it's just one Question of time,

when the sporting descent begins.

Cortina had warned against it, even when everything was going well and the results were correct.

But his team wasn't listening well enough.

Team is still "too quiet"

Now the Italo-Canadian hopes that his players will learn from the past games and focus on how they want to play ice hockey again.

That they save and don't forget what happened, that they grow and develop from it.

That defeats really do form stronger characters.

Accordingly, he describes the duel on Tuesday evening against Deggendorfer SC as a "character test".

At least he noticed a slight trend reversal on Monday.

In the previous weeks, the 58-year-old was always dissatisfied with the training, after all, he described yesterday's session as "okay".

This is already one of the positive adjectives in Cortina's vocabulary.

He chose the middle ground in terms of dealing with his team, between hitting and stroking.

"I showed them a lot of game sequences, talked to them a lot." But that's not just the job of the coaches, the players themselves also have to open their mouths, talk to each other, help each other.

That happens too little.

“The team is too quiet for me.

I hope that will change," says Cortina.

It's a matter of maturity.

But he also sees progress on this point, praises captain Simon Mayr.

"He's doing a good job."

The chance to make amends

Cortina is also happy that the next competitive game is already on the program today.

So there is no time to forget the events of the past week and a half.

"We have to react immediately." Because the coach knows only too well that every path has two directions.

The phrase "If it works, then it works" has a counterpart coined by football world champion Andreas Brehme: "You've got shit on your feet, you've got shit on your feet." Means: The SCR must stop its descent as quickly as possible.

As quickly as possible.

Source: merkur

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