Arseniy Khatsey: "We are moving in the right direction"

- Today's match was easier. Are you picking up form?

- I wouldn't say that the game was easy. It was still hard for us, and the opponents were strong. We tried, fought from the opening faceoff, and did that the coach wanted us to. I think that we are moving in the right direction.

- Your line is getting a lot of ice time, even appearing on special teams.

- It's nice when we're given time, and we try not to let the coach down. We are doing everything that we can.

- Say some words about your goal.

- Alexander Barabanov and Svyatoslav Grebenshchikov played the puck about in the attacking zone, they could have scored themselves but they fed me, and with the goalkeeper out of position I only had to hit the target.

- It looked as though Neftekhimik had run out of energy in the third period.

- Maybe we just picked up our game and increased the tempo.

- Are you showing at least 50% of what you are capable of?

- We can perform even better. We'll try to improve with every game.

- Will tomorrow's match with Neftekhimik be tougher?

- It's the pre-season, all games are hard. SKA are the reigning champions, and everyone will try twice as hard against us this year. We will have to try harder and win in every match.