Roman Rotenberg speaks after playing the Russian national team

HC SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg:

- We will now finally start training as one group together. I'm happy with the way our guys competed today, they showed commitment. Everyone enjoys watching ice hockey like this, both teams competed with an emphasis on attack with plenty of great goals.

Did we achieve all of our targets for this competition? A lot of our guys are still feeling heavy after our gruelling training camps, but they will soon be able to show their best ice hockey. The main thing for us is to be fully ready for the start of the KHL campaign on September 2nd against Dynamo in Moscow. Will Artemiy Pleshkov begin the season in the KHL or VHL? We are very impressed with how he performed today, but we are taking it one step at a time. We need to speak with the goalkeeping coach about his progress.