Attack “Torpedo” Vasily Atanasov said on that he apologized to the team for the two-minute penalty at the end of the Fonbet KHL Championship regular season match with Spartak.
The meeting took place in Nizhny Novgorod and ended in favor of the hosts with a score of 2:1 after a shootout. The author of the only shootout made in the match was Atanasov.
“All my thoughts were about how stupid I was for letting the team down at such a difficult time.” Thanks to our minority brigade, who played this time and cleaned up after me. You can’t do that and let your emotions run wild, like I did. I understand my guilt and I have already apologized to everyone.
I was so confident that I was going to score in the shootout. After the first shootout I saw how the goalkeeper played and I knew what to do with him,” Atanasov said on .
Spartak leads the Western Conference standings with 63 points, Torpedo (57) is in fifth place.
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