Hockey playerTorpedo » Keaton Thompson told that during the FONBET KHL championship match with Yaroslavl “Locomotive “Luck was not on the side of the Nizhny Novgorod team.
Saturday’s meeting in Nizhny Novgorod ended with a 1:0 victory for Lokomotiv. Rail forward Daniil But scored midway through the second period. The puck, after ricocheting off the referee who was behind the goal, flew into the Torpedo zone, from where Booth sent it into the goal.
— Your team played excellent defense, but you still lost. It’s a shame ?
— We played against the leader, against the best defense in the league. We played very well defensively, we had many opportunities in attack, we had several big chances, but we didn’t capitalize on them. Sometimes luck is not on your side.
—Can you say that chance helped the opponent win?
– Yes. A few bounces and the puck hitting the referee decided the outcome of the game. It was a close game, we were unlucky,” Thompson told .
Lokomotiv leads the Western Conference standings with 50 points, Torpedo (31) is in sixth place.
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