Before “Torpedo » Nikolai Kovalenko in an interview with he talked about the fight with SKA defender Maxim Fedotov during the Fonbet KHL championship match.
SKA beat Torpedo (4:3 B), losing after two periods with a score of 0:3. Striker Valentin Zykov scored a brace for the St. Petersburg team and also converted the decisive shootout.
After the siren, at the end of the first period, SKA defender Maxim Fedotov approached Kovalenko and pushed him in the chest. A massive fight broke out, as a result of which visiting striker Vasily Atanasov was suspended for two minutes for rudeness. However, Fedotov and Kovalenko were not punished.
— What can you say about the match? It was like two matches in one.
– Well, yes, you saw everything yourself. At the beginning, we had the initiative for two periods. But in the third, they missed it and relaxed. We made stupid mistakes and gave victory to our opponent. Well, as usual.
— “Torpedo” gave SKA such victories last season. For example, the last game of a playoff series. Do you learn from your mistakes?
– You have to ask the guys personally. For some people the experience comes, but for others it doesn’t happen along the way. A good team punishes us for that.
— What can you say about the episode with Maxim Fedotov? Word on social media is that you hit him in the head with your elbow. Was this intentional? Then a fight started.
– Who planted it? Did I hit him in the face?
—We need to study this video more carefully. How would you rate this episode?
—And if you say “no comments”, will that be okay?
– Yes.
– Well, that’s it, no comments. Clown and clown, what is there. Lord, we need to punish him with goals and not fight with him or anything else. It ended up being a really bad trade. Well, that was bad. If you need to interact with the leader, then yes. Like in the match against Dynamo, I made an exchange – I don’t remember with whom.
— Do you have a grudge against Maxim Fedotov for leaving Torpedo for SKA?
– Without wanting to offend you. I don’t care at all.
— How would you rate Torpedo’s performance at this stage of the season? The December window is coming soon, it will be possible to relax.
— To be honest, I didn’t think to ask the question this way: hold out until the December window. You must approach each opponent with good humor, emotions and desire. We must win. Therefore, it never occurred to me. And I’ve already said that we don’t care which opponent, with whom or when we play. At least the fifth game, the tenth or the twentieth. It doesn’t matter at all. We have to go out and fully dedicate ourselves to the game,” Kovalenko told .
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