SKA forward Sergei Tolchinsky commented on the episode of the Fonbet KHL championship match with CSKA, in which his teammate was sent off before the end of the match. Valentin Zykov.
Monday’s meeting took place in St. Petersburg and ended with a score of 2:1 in favor of SKA. Midway through the second period, Zykov received a 25 (5+20) minute penalty for pushing CSKA forward Prokhor Poltapov onto the board.
— Was this match different from the one where SKA beat CSKA in Moscow with a score of 3:2?
– Why doesn’t it look like it? Just similar, probably. In general, the matches against CSKA and Lokomotiv generally turn out to be of the same type. They play pretty much the same system. Nothing, we endured it, we had a lot of penalties, we played a lot in the minority. We played well in defense and converted our chances.
— Was the key moment when Zykov was sent off before the end of the match and Poltapov then continued to play? Are hockey players offended by this?
– Naturally, everyone noticed it. Our player has five minutes because the man would go to the locker room. Trauma means five minutes. And then after a shift, he leaves. And we play in the minority for five minutes. Well, I don’t know… It happens…
— Judges evaluate a specific episode, not the consequences.
– Certainly. There are probably no complaints against the judges in this regard. But the fact is a fact: within a few minutes, Poltapov was playing in the majority.
— To what do you attribute SKA’s six-game winning streak? What did you find?
— What we were talking about at the start of the season, when we were playing well. But they didn’t score and conceded very disappointing goals due to childhood mistakes. That’s what they were constantly talking about, that these errors needed to be removed, that the system needed to be further developed. And it takes time for all the guys to get used to the new system. And now it is already bearing fruit, the game already seems much more complete, there are almost no errors.
– Is not it?
– Naturally, they exist. But there are almost no serious errors or failures. And this is also linked to the fact that we started winning series.
– But in the endings, you make me nervous. And now they didn’t let Serebryakov make a cracker, and in the last seconds CSKA crushed you.
– Any match with a one goal difference will always be alarming in the end. Because the opponent takes away the goalkeeper and plays six against five with an advantage, and here we also have a penalty. How much did we receive? 10 minutes, not to mention a big fine? But killing a minority is always a good thing for us. Well, we missed one. It’s also hard to defend constantly like that, even when the opponent comes out with six. But still, the guys did well, they survived five minutes in the minority. And at one point CSKA still scored,” Tolchinsky told .
After 32 league matches, SKA occupies fifth place in the Western Conference with 38 points.
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