Defender CSKA Artem Sergeyev in a conversation with , he summed up the results of the first round of the Gagarin Cup and talked about the upcoming series with “Locomotive” .
CSKA beat Severstal in seven games, winning Tuesday’s tiebreak with a score of 5:3. Sergeev scored 1 (0+1) points in this series, having attended Game 7 of the series. In the second round, CSKA went to Lokomotiv.
“Why was the confrontation with Severstal so tenacious?”
First of all, they play very well. It is visible, and what to say about it. I will say that they play non-straight and normal hockey. But our hand is visible here. We made a lot of mistakes.
– Are you talking about the seventh game?
– I’m talking about the whole series.
– Never in the history of the KHL has a team saved the seventh game, losing 0:2.
– I know. When we played in the final against Magnitogorsk last year and took a 2-0 lead, I remembered that too. And now I thought: interesting, but will we succeed?
– What moment of the seventh game was a turning point?
– Second goal.
– There was a player from Severstal and CSKA got, so to speak, the majority.
– He stayed there in our area to lie. I never realized he was there. Maybe hit. But we immediately read this topic, which Severstal ended up with four. Kostya (Okulov) gave a nice pass to Provi (Vladislav Provolnev), and he saw Vlad (Vladislav Kamenev) at the far post, and he shot into an empty net.
– Severstal clung to the score, making it 3-4 at the end. What was most important at that time?
Don’t make another mistake. Do not lose position, get the puck out of the zone, catch it on yourself. Don’t do anything stupid, keep the game under control.
– From the side it looked like CSKA couldn’t connect to Severstal. Sergey Fedorov didn’t kick the trash cans in the locker room? You needed to be shaken up somehow!
– I will not say that we had problems concentrating. And the tanks did not fly in the locker rooms. The boys are all adults, experienced. Everyone who has played and won a lot of everything. We understand everything perfectly ourselves – and we knew that everything would be fine for us.
– Will the series with Lokomotiv be completely different?
– I think so. There is also a good experienced team. And I’m also interested in how Lokomotiv will play. So I can’t say that Severstal played defensively. I was pleasantly surprised that Cherepovets really plays hockey. I wonder how Yaroslavl will behave this year.
– CSKA was the last to participate in the second round of the Gagarin Cup. Can you rest?
– Well, what if we have young guys. We only have Seryoga Plotnikov over 30 years old! — said Sergeev for “”.
In this regular season, Artem Sergeev, 29, scored 16 (3+13) points in 62 games. With the army team, the defender won the Gagarin Cup in 2022.
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