Sochi striker Dmitry Zavgorodniy, in an interview with , answered a question about the reasons for the team’s failure at the NG Puchkov pre-season tournament in St. Petersburg.
At the pre-season tournament named after NG Puchkov held in St. Petersburg, Sochi lost to Sevestal (1:7), SKA (3:4), Avtomobilist (2:8) and Sibir (3:4) .
In 11 matches of the KHL regular season this season, the southerners have won seven victories and occupy fifth place in the Western Conference standings with 14 points. Zavgorodniy has 3 (2+1) performance points in seven matches with a utility indicator of “+5”.
– Sochi had a bad pre-season tournament Puchkov – four defeats, including 1:7 from Severstal and 2:8 from Avtomobilist. What happened? This is how the charges were allocated?
– I don’t know. A bad horse starts with a gallop, I can say that. Of course, the charges were serious, at the beginning of the season we only started to move away from them.
—Meaning the Sochi Hockey Open, where they had a big fight with SKA, Avangard and Russia U-23, new ball carriers?
— We were the hosts of the tournament. After an unsuccessful season, I wanted to please the audience, show the fans that this season Sochi is a completely different team,” Zavgorodniy told .
Read the full version of the interview with Dmitry Zavgorodny on Saturday on the website.
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