Head coach of Yaroslavl “Lokomotiv” Igor Nikitin after an away victory against Moscow CSKA in the Fonbet championship match KHL said that there was no underestimation of the opponent, despite the large number of young hockey players in the military club.
On Monday, Lokomotiv beat CSKA in Moscow with a score of 3:2. This is Lokomotiv’s sixth victory in the last seven matches.
— The game was difficult. We led with confidence, but CSKA converted their chances well. Well done for leading to victory in the third period.
— Do you agree that we lost the second half because we played too well the first twenty minutes and came out relaxed during the second?
– Accept.
— Did the composition of CSKA surprise you?
– We saw in the previous match that CSKA had a lot of young hockey players, but we were not interested in their composition, they focused on their game.
— Were you afraid of underestimating your opponent because of his quasi-reserve strength?
— Nothing human is foreign to us, but I would not say that there was an underestimate.
— Did you know all the young players who came to play against you before this match?
— It’s much more interesting for us to play when all the opposing leaders are in the lineup. I haven’t followed CSKA for long, I know a lot of young players, but not all. I don’t even know some of them at Lokomotiv, we have a lot of talented young players.
— Ivan Bocharov has only played two matches in the last month and a half, what is the reason? However, last year, time was distributed differently.
“We don’t look at last year. I think Bocharov will play the next match, there are no complaints about his game. The schedule allowed Isaev to play these matches, there were many matches against top opponents. In matches with strong teams and players, you can become a leader – a goalkeeper who determines the face of the team.
— Half of the regular season has passed, how do you evaluate the team’s performance?
“We talked about it in the locker room, the end of the match should have played out differently, we have something to work on,” reports the correspondent, reporting Nikitin’s words.
Lokomotiv, having scored 46 points in 34 matches, occupies third place in the Western Conference standings.
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