Sergei Shirokov: "Defence wins games in the playoffs"

- What was lacking? Energy?

- A third goal. We had good chances on the powerplay, Steve Moses had a two on one breakaway. We didn't score, and they did. Nevertheless this is only the first game, and Lokomotiv didn't surprise us at all. The game went as expected.

- Did you purposely give Lokomotiv the initiative?

- We knew that Lokomotiv were going to attack, we were given a chance of playing tight defence. However, we conceded goals because of our mistakes. We need to correct them and move on.

- It's not good for the reigning Gagarin Cup champions to have only seven shots on target after two periods.

- We don't pay attention to statistics. The main thing is to play solidly in defence. In the playoffs, good defence wins games. Despite not having many shots, we had a lot of chances and in the first period we had two one on one chances.

- Will this be a tight series?

- Time will tell.

- Was Alexei Murygin a problem for you?

- No, he simply played excellently.

- What do SKA need to change?

- We have to take advantage of our chances.