Metallurg head coach Andrei Razin admitted after the match against Salavat Yulaev that his team was relieved to learn that Canadian Joshua Livo would not play for the hosts.
Metallurg beat Salavat Yulaev away with a score of 3:2. Denis Zernov scored the decisive goal in overtime. The league’s sixth scorer, Joshua Livo, who scored 24 points (12+12) in 24 matches, did not play for the hosts.
– It’s a difficult game. It’s nice to play here – a cozy palace in Ufa, great fans. That’s why it’s doubly nice to win. The key moment was when we survived five minutes in the minority. Well, they scored in overtime.
— When you learned that Salavat Yulaev would play without Josh Livo, did you breathe a sigh of relief?
— They exhaled when they discovered this without Livo (Razin breathed into the microphone).
— How would you rate on a scale of ten the jaw power of the hosts defender, who should have fallen under the blow, but survived?
— The most powerful jaw is that of the hippopotamus. It’s a ten. What if we only took people? A boxer who never fell? But everyone fell. I don’t know how to make a joke here.
— You said that “Salavat Yulaev” played on par with you. In other words, can Ufa qualify for the Gagarin Cup final?
— We were champions last year. It’s now the new season, everyone started on the same line. Everyone has a chance to win the cup,” Razin was quoted as saying by a correspondent.
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