Sergei Shirokov: "We need to calm our emotions down"

- How did Lokomotiv get back into the game? Sergei Zubov probably warned you that they would attack hard right away in the third period.

- We understood that ourselves too. You can't relax for a second in the playoffs. We conceded a messy first goal, and then took a five minute penalty. That made the game very tense, but we held on and fought until the end. The series is level at 1:1, and we will now go back to Saint Petersburg.

- Before today, you hadn't scored for over a month.

- The main thing is that the team won. It's not so important who scored the goals, we all win together. We need to move on, and correct and improve things in our game.

- Why did Lokomotiv have the initiative again in the first period?

- Our task was to play reliably in defence. Today this worked out better than in the first match, and we made less mistakes in our zone and when moving into the attack. We were great during the first two periods, and had chances for more goals. The third period was tough.

- You have taken one game away to even up the score, will this help you moving on?

- Did you think that we would lose 0:4? This is the playoffs, here every game is a fight. Because of this, the endings of games are so nervy.

- Do you have mutual understanding with your line-mates?

- Everything's excellent, there are no problems.

- When you got a ten minute penalty, you had a few words with the referees.

- The referees are doing their job, just like we are. We need to not pay attention to this, calm our emotions down and move on. Next time we won't make emotional mistakes.