Former head coach of the Russian national hockey team Vladimir Krikunov believes that St. Petersburg SKA remains a contender for the Gagarin Cup, despite a five-game losing streak in the current KHL season.
On Sunday, SKA lost to Siberia with a score of 1:2, Valentin Zykov scored the only goal for the host country. The St. Petersburg club suffered its fifth consecutive defeat. Roman Rotenberg’s team takes penultimate, 10th place in the Western Conference with 4 points.
— I would not focus on any series of defeats for any team – the season begins, squeaky, the leaders lose to the outsiders. Who could have imagined that Magnitogorsk would be inferior to Lada, and Ak Bars would be weaker than Sochi?
SKA found itself in an unpleasant situation, but does anyone doubt that the St. Petersburg team will approach the playoffs fully armed? The main thing is what will happen in the spring. The experience of the coaches and the talent of the players are numerous; SKA was and remains one of the contenders for the cup. In the first half, “damn it” happened to Sibir, as Roman Rotenberg says, but then there was a team on the field. Of course we have to improve our execution, there were a lot of shots and chances. Now the “red-blues” need to achieve one or two victories, and they will be able to break through, I have no doubt,” Krikunov said, as quoted by the “Championship”.
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