Neftekhimik attacker Alexander Dergachev After CSKA’s defeat in the KHL championship match, Fonbet (1:2) marked the decisive period of the match when the army team scored two goals in one minute.
On Monday in Moscow, CSKA was behind, but managed to score two goals in the 37th minute of the second period, Vladislav Kamenev and Maxim Mamin scored.
— A solid match is not a victory, even if we played well. But half a minute, when CSKA scored two goals, turned the situation around. I can’t say we were torn apart in those moments, it was just the little things that predetermined the outcome.
— Neftekhimik hockey players never gave up in this match. Did you speak separately before the match about the importance of playing discipline?
– This is a very good plus for our team. Because in previous matches we constantly had a lot of takedowns, and most of them were stupid and unjustified. It’s good that we ruled that out, especially with an opponent like CSKA. This allowed us to show our game. We acted patiently and correctly. However, the opponent’s only penalty was 30 seconds before the end of the third period, so CSKA is very good in this component.
— The last match against SKA ended in a painful defeat (2:4), was it difficult to recover psychologically for the match against CSKA?
“It’s always unpleasant to lose.” But it’s our way, we had a series of two away games, we tried to recover and rest. What else can you do? Let us not sprinkle ashes on our heads after defeats. Now we have to move on, there is a home series waiting for us, we have to score points. You can see for yourself what struggle there is in our conference for the playoffs,” Dergachev told .
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