Dynamo Moscow - SKA. Press-conference of game one

HC SKA head coach Sergei Zubov:

- I'll keep it short. It was a tense game, we took the first win and we move on.

- Are you satisfied with the quality of SKA's performance today?

- The main thing is that we won.

- Ilya Kovalchuk returned today. Are you pleased with how he played?

- Yes.

- Why did you bring him back to the squad?

- He has been training well.

- How is Jarno Koskiranta feeling?

- We will find out tomorrow.

- Can you tell us why Steve Moses didn't play?

- He is sick.

HC Dynamo Moscow head coach Sergei Oreshkin:

- We lost because of our penalties. We created a lot of chances when at equal strength, but couldn't finish them off. On the powerplay, we only scored once. Overall we worked well, and I don't have any questions for my players. They tried, fought, crashed the net, but it;s hockey: someone wins, someone loses.

- Did you not expect SKA to play how they did on special teams?

- We didn't focus on the right things.

- Comment on Denis Barantsev's five minute penalty.

- He went to make a body hit, but the opponent lowered his head.

- For SKA's three powerplay goals, they were conceded in identical fashion as to how Lokomotiv lost. Can you not find an answer to this problem?

- In the third period they hardly scored. In the first two periods, we focused on the wrong things.

- Could you not keep a hold of Evgeny Dadonov?

- No, we simply didn't play correctly.