Sergei Shirokov: "Special teams are crucial"

- What are your emotions after the win?

- We needed to take a victory after losing to CSKA. The score is 4:0, but we had a number of problems throughout the game. Severstal had a lot of chances, especially during the second period, and we need to play better in defence. A tough road trip is coming up.

- Why are special teams not working out?

- Today we scored on the powerplay. Nevertheless, we need to work over this, and we have had to change our powerplay units.

- Teams like Severstal can't cause SKA a lot of problems with their game, so they often play dirty. How hard can it be?

- Actually, Severstal are a good team. They have plenty of technical players which play well on the powerplay. We took a lot of penalties, and it's great that we killed them. This was the key to winning. Special teams decide a lot.

- Severstal also fouled a lot.

- I need to see the replays of their penalties. Maybe they made some tactical errors. I don't know what happened to Dmitry Yudin, he's a key player for us.

- Tell us how difficult it is to play without the national team players.

- It's not easy. We have been forced into shaking our lines up, and a difficult away series is approaching. Barys need points, and it won't be a simple task playing Yekaterinburg or Yugra either. We need to prepare.