Dynamo Moscow - SKA. Press-conference

HC SKA head coach Andrei Nazarov:

- I congratulate my colleague with their win. After we had gone 2:0 up, we left our game plan. Dynamo played solid in defence, however I liked our movement at times. We have things to work over.

- Can you say that Anton Burdasov has fixed himself into Vadim Shipachyov's line?

- He has always played well. He couldn't score when one on one though.

- How does Ilya Kovalchuk feel?

- Miracles don't happen. He has emotions inside, and his preparation is ongoing.

- How much time do you need to rebuild this team?

- Half of this game was as we wanted. We will have a talk. We made terrible mistakes today, and when you lead 2:0 you need to defend more than attack. I need the players to understand that such mistakes aren't needed.

- Maxim Chudinov was arguing with the referees?

- It's emotions. Maxim is our leader, and we didn't want him to receive ten minutes as we would have conceded even more.

- Despite Ilya Ezhov playing well recently, you put Mikko Koskinen in net. Why?

- Everyone knows what Mikko Koskinen is made of, we decided to give him a chance for revenge. He played well in the previous game, but lost. It's the same story today.

HC Dynamo Moscow head coach Harijs Vītoliņš:

- Thanks to the fans for selling out the arena. I congratulate my guys with the win, we improved our movement when 0:2 down. It's a good win.

- Why didn't Andrei Mironov play? And during the third period Nikita Filatov was benched?

- Andrei was ill. About Nikita - we simply decided to make that decision.

- Did the fact that you knew that Ilya Kovalchuk was going to play affect your preparation?

- Saint Petersburg's team is strong without him too.

- How is Alexander Yeryomenko?

- He's recovering.

- In what form is Ilya Nikulin?

- Physically he's in good shape. I think that we will see Ilya on the ice soon.

- Alexei Tereshchenko unexpectedly played today.

- The doctors cleared him to play.