Head Coach S.K.A. Romain Rotenberg after the match with Ak Bars, he praised the opponent’s coaching staff, naming Zinetulu Bilyaletdinova the strongest specialist in the KHL.
Friday’s meeting in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 7:4 in favor of the hosts. SKA leads the Western Conference standings with 93 points, Ak Bars (75) is first in the East.
– We can all be proud of the guys today. They showed character and courage. We played well tactically, even better than in the last game. We continue to work on improving the implementation. We will score more – there will be no questions.
A strong opponent, a qualified team with the strongest coaching staff. Zinetula Haidiarovitch [Билялетдинов] – The strongest coach in the league. We treat it with great respect. I also discuss many things with him. It’s an important moment for us to beat the strongest team today with such a staff. I haven’t seen anything new in the Ak Bars system, they always play like that, it’s Zinetula Khaidyarovich’s system. You saw the names of the opponent, these guys won the Gagarin Cup, the best masters of our hockey. You need to work on these guys.
I want to mention our Vladislav Podyapolsky. He took a lot of dead chances, contributed to the victory.
The absence of Gusev? We played the first game in four months without Gusev, we had a record streak. Of course, we need Gusev. We need a better version of it, we’ll get to it. We discussed everything, we have a work plan, ”reports the correspondent about Rotenberg.
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