Former SKA and Russian national team striker Yevgeny Artiukhin in an interview with , he said that during the Gagarin Cup series against Avtomobilist, the St. Petersburg club did not use the striker quite correctly. Sergei Tolshinsky .
On Monday, SKA lost to Avtomobilist (4:5) in the fifth match of the second round of the KHL playoffs and ended the fight for the Gagarin Cup. Tolchinsky scored 54 points (18 goals + 36 assists) in 67 regular season games. In 10 playoff games, he has 4 points (3+1).
— Why didn’t cool striker Sergei Tolchinsky score a single point in the series with Avtomobilist?
“I looked at him and said not all leaders show up. But I will say this: they changed Tolchinsky’s link and assigned him to (Zakhar) Bardakov and (Stepan) Starkov. He played a little bit with the wrong players – not the more offensive guys he should be playing with. We needed partners who could provide him with passes and create chances. Or Sergei creates something and passes it on, and they score. He needed creative players for his line. Tolchinsky had this, but this troika collapsed – he was transferred. And I can say unequivocally that this affected Sergei, that’s why he has no performances in the series, ”Artyukhin told .
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