Captain CSKA Nikita Nesterov after being defeated by “Avant-garde” (2:3) in the Fonbet Championship match KHL told that the Moscow team will improve their game in the future.
– CSKA had the chance to take this game…
– A good opponent, and the match was excellent, with great intensity, – Nesterov told . Both teams played very well both in attack and defense. Somewhere the opponent had more luck – for example, in the third period the puck hit me in the buttocks. But that’s no excuse, you have to score your chances. I think we will improve our game and we have everything ahead of us.
– And when could you change this game?
– When you have four minutes of majority, you must score. Preferably twice if possible. We didn’t use it.
– Did you think in the locker room how to stop Sergei Tolchinsky?
– We play with all the teams in the same way, we have our own system. Well, Tolchinsky scored today. So he’s lucky.
– Why do CSKA have such fluctuations during the season?
– The team has character, but I don’t know the differences. I will not say that we are under-tuned or that we do not respect the opponent. It’s just a coincidence, there are more individual errors. We will correct them, and according to the system, each of the guys works.
– There were a lot of young people at CSKA today. How do you help them?
– Good promising guys, they quickly join the team, and it’s good that they have the right to play. We don’t have that youngster or veteran. All are equal.
– Not far away is the KHL All-Star Game, where you were elected. Are you waiting for this moment?
– It is very important for me. Chelyabinsk is my hometown, I started playing hockey there, I took my first steps on the ice. It’s very nice to go back there, especially with the captain’s stripe. But there are three KHL games left before the break. We have to put them together.
– Sergey Tolchinsky will be the captain of another team in Chelyabinsk. If you meet in the final…
We will play very hard with him. Very difficult!
Thanks to the victory, Avangard moved up to 5th place in the Eastern Conference with 43 points, beating Salavat Yulaev in additional indicators. CSKA is 2nd in the West, Sergey Fedorov’s team has 51 points.
Source : MatchTV
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