SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg said his team missed many scoring opportunities during the FONBET KHL Championship regular season match with Lokomotiv.
The meeting in St. Petersburg ended with a victory for the guests with a score of 3:2 (3:2, 0:0, 0:0).
— I would like to congratulate the entire Lokomotiv coaching team on Coaches Day, we won the Olympics with Igor Nikitin, we respect each other. As for the game, it was a good match, the guys followed the setup and the game plan. We played against a strong opponent and played many matches against them. It’s always a crapshoot, 50/50 with Lokomotiv. We understood that there would be a high level game with high density. I would like to play with such an opponent even more often so that our guys can develop. We have our own super series with Lokomotiv, six matches per season. Very high level of hockey. We understood that there would be an aggressive game. Today was Russian hockey celebration.
Our failed goals are our mistakes. We deviated from our plan, we are going to train even better. We created many 100% scoring chances in the match against a strong opponent, which means we are heading in the right direction. Our players are forced to score into an empty goal. In such situations, it is necessary to slaughter “with meat and rice,” as Yurzinov says, the correspondent reports Rotenberg’s words.
SKA occupies second place in the Western Conference standings with 31 points. On November 2, Rotenberg’s team will face Salavat Yulaev.
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