Before S.K.A. Marat Khairullin appreciated Dynamo Minsk’s style of play in the first round of the KHL playoffs.
On Thursday, SKA beat Dynamo Minsk at home in the fifth game of the Gagarin Cup first round series with the score 6:3 and took the lead in the series – 3-2. Khairullin scored a brace.
– It may be the easiest double of my career, but the main thing is at the end of the match.
Nothing bad happens. It’s hockey, the playoffs, where everyone is trying to get their teeth into it. You must be patient. We also try to provoke the opponent. Roman Borisovich [Ротенберг] said that in the last game, “damn that” happened. Now everyone has forgotten, and we are preparing for the next game.
Sometimes we watch other meetings when we are at home. But the most important thing is to focus on your game and your recovery. Nobody was surprised, the championship stabilized. “Neftekhimik” did not surprise me either, I always believed in them, ”reports the correspondent of , according to the words of Khairullin.
The next game will take place in the capital of Belarus on March 11. Watch live broadcasts of KHL matches on the federal channel and thematic channels of the holding, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source : MatchTV

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