SKA front Marat Khairullin after beating Torpedo (5:4) in the second game of the second round of the KHL playoffs, he said the team dedicated the result to the captain Dmitry Yashkin .
SKA took the best-of-four series lead 2-0. Hosts captain Yashkin did not take to the ice in the third period of Saturday’s game.
– With a victory, the most important thing is that we won. Let’s analyze the errors, you can’t miss so many. All playoff games are tense, no one wants to lose, so the battle is on the ice. Of course, we will have time to recover for the next game. Playing every other day is better than getting plenty of rest.
Problems with the majority? Today we played better than in the first match. There were good times, just mark more coolly somewhere. This “Torpedo”, which we play in attack, the fans take pleasure in such a game. I don’t think the opponent created more chances, we scored more, we won, he didn’t there is nothing to comment.
In the third period, we lacked the captain. We went out and proved we could all play the same. We can say that we dedicate this victory to him, ”reports a correspondent of to the words of Khairullin.
The next two matches of the series will be held in Nizhny Novgorod on March 20 and 22.
Watch live broadcasts of the KHL playoff matches on the federal channel , thematic channels of the holding, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source : MatchTV
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