Alexander Khokhlachyov: "My confidence is growing"

- Did you stick to the game plan?

- Yes, we did well. However, we conceded on the penalty kill again, it's our main problem right now. We'll work on this.

- You took an assist for SKA's first goal. Was this a play that you worked on in training?

- No, we acted according to the situation. We won the faceoff draw, I gave it to Nikolai Prokhorkin, he found Sergei Shirokov and we scored.

- You have started racking up the points. Are you feeling more confident?

- Yes, of course. It was tough when I arrived, we have different ice sizes here. Hopefully, I will keep improving.

- Amur are a tough team to beat.

- Yes, it wasn't easy at all. They played great in defence and skated well. If you didn't watch the game and only look at the score, you can say that we won easily, but in reality, it was a difficult match.

- After Amur scored, did you feel that they could get back into the game?

- When they scored, we knew that they would crash the net, there wasn't much time remaining in the third period. We had to keep on playing our game and not lose the puck.

- So you didn't get nervous?

- It's never nice to concede goals, but we knew what to do.

- Igor Shestyorkin mentioned that the victory is more important than a possible shutout. Did you want to help him keep a clean sheet?

- We always want the goaltender to gain a shutout, we didn't concede on purpose.