Head Coach S.K.A. Romain Rotenberg after the victory in the home game of the Fonbet Championship of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) on “Salavat Yulayev pointed to the play of his team’s goalkeeper Dmitry Nikolaev .
The meeting took place in St. Petersburg and ended with the victory of the hosts in extra time with the score 3:2. Damir Zhafyarov became the author of the winning goal. In regulation time, Artem Fedorov and Alexander Volkov excelled at SKA. The goals scored by Salavat Yulaev were scored by Sergey Shmelev and Alexander Khmelevski, who failed to convert a ball late in the first period.
– Salavat Yulaev is a strong opponent, they have good guys, you have to give credit to the opponent. Our guys are great, young and daring. For many guys, such a match is the first in their lives, with such a large number of spectators. We need to score more goals, convert scoring opportunities better.
It’s always great to play at home where you have to win. We have been preparing for this match for more than a month. We have laid the foundations, today’s game showed it. For us, the most important match is the next one.
For many of our beginners, this game was the first in St. Petersburg. They passed this exam, accepted the challenge, they won. We don’t have time to sum up the results, everything is just beginning for us, tomorrow we will train, the next opponent is Barys.
We have two solid goalkeepers. Long season, everyone will play. Nikolaev is our pupil, he has always shown the qualities of a winner, we are happy that he was able to play at such a level today. The opponent has very good players. We are winners thanks to the good play of our goalkeeper. We will use our guys from St. Petersburg as much as possible.
We believe in our guys. We see potential in them, today’s game showed that they are capable of winning serious games,” Rotenberg said.
In the next game of the regular season, SU will travel to Balashikha near Moscow to meet Vityaz, and SKA will host Barys on their ice. Both meetings will take place on September 5.
Source : MatchTV
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