Evgeny Dadonov: "The fight pumped us up"

- What's more important today: the victory or the team performance?

- We should have got our game together a long time ago, the victory is more important.

- Why couldn't you play like this before on a stable basis?

- I don't know, there are a lot of reasons. Our coaches deal with this.

- What feelings do you have from playing in a new line?

- I know the guys, and I have played with Nikita Gusev and Sergei Shirokov in the Russian national team.

- Did you want to score a hat trick?

- I didn't pay any attention to this, and I didn't have any more chances.

- SKA led comfortably, but wanted to keep scoring more goals.

- I think that the opponents allowed us to do this. They also created a lot of chances, and when they were attacking we broke away.

- Did you enjoy Ilya Kovalchuk's fight?

- Of course, his fight pumped us up.

- When Ilya scored his goal, did you want him to complete the Gordie Howe hat trick?

- He tried, but it didn't work out.