SKA Head Coach Romain Rotenberg After the regular season match of the KHL championship against Sochi (7:4) FONBET spoke about the game of 18-year-old forward Ivan Demidov.
SKA beat Sochi with a score of 7:4. Demidov became the most productive player of the match, scoring 4 (2+2) points.
— I would like to emphasize the atmosphere in the arena. There are a lot of fans and children. I am glad that our away fans come to see us. We really appreciate it. I want to thank and congratulate our team for their victory. Every victory is achieved hard, with sweat and blood. All the guys worked 100%.
— What can you say about the match of Ivan Demidov, who scored 4 points?
— Vanya and I talked a lot at the end of last season during the Kharlamov Cup final, when he was unable to play in the decisive matches due to injury. We talked a lot about where to move and how to work. This is our common work. Well done, he heard. A smart, educated guy with a high hockey IQ. Our future.
Vanya has worked a lot this summer. I won’t reveal the details, but he’s done a lot of work on himself. It shows in the way he’s playing for the team right now. It’s a team win. And we need guys like that to contribute.
First of all, he wins the fight and contacts, catches the puck on himself. As for the skills, the whole unit did a great job. We found these combinations and we didn’t even have to look at the horoscope. We looked at hockey information. This is the merit of all five. All our guys participate in attack and defense.
In every match, Demidov has a chance to score three or four goals. And the main thing is not to miss it. Because in the KHL we have players who score about 40 goals, but in response they score 80 goals. This is minus 40 utility.
It is very difficult to win the Gagarin Cup with such guys. And Ivan always does a great job in defense. It is very important for all of us, because our youngsters are forced to play the best defense and catch the puck for themselves.
This applies to Ivan Vydrenkov, Ivan Demidov, Timur Kol – a boy born in 2006 plays, defender. Yes, it is not easy for Timur, the demands are serious. Our team is under a lot of pressure in every match. But our guys can handle it.
It is clear that the strongest are mentioned daily in the press, they will be put under pressure. And the strongest team is always cut into micro-moments. Everything is published on the Internet, in Telegram channels. Opponents do not even need video conferences. The same Evgeniy Evgenievich Kuznetsov has already been dismantled by everyone in the video. And this is great.
Our team is improving. There are points we need to improve. We will add more in every game. But seven goals are enough to win. Although we will work to miss fewer. We need a reinforced concrete defense and a brilliant attack. “We want to miss as few things as possible,” Rotenberg said, as quoted by a correspondent.
The St. Petersburg club won its third victory of the season, scored 7 points from six games and is ranked 5th in the Western Conference standings. SKA will play away against Torpedo in the next match on September 21.
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