CSKA - SKA. Game one. Press-conference

HC SKA head coach Valeri Bragin:

- The opponents saw the game out after taking advantage of our mistakes to score goals. We tried to do something, we played 6-on-4, but today it didn't work out. We will look into why this happened.

- Will Malte Stromwall and Miro Aaltonen play in this series?

- Everything is possible.

- Why did you swap the goalkeeper for the extra skater in the final minute, when it was clear that SKA couldn't score three goals in such a short space of time?

- If we could have scored 6-on-4 nine minutes before the buzzer, there would have been a chance. We were searching for options in order to score goals.

- Why did you pull Magnus Hellberg during the first break? Does he have a problem with his health?

- No, we simply made the decision to pull him.

HC CSKA Moscow head coach Igor Nikitin:

- CSKA competed in a more open manner than against Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.

- They are different opponents.

- Brendan Leipsic looked fresh on the ice today.

- He had missed three matches. We need everyone to be in good shape, we understand that this will be a difficult series.

- Would it have been better to win the second-round series 4-0 instead of 4-3?

- There are both positive and negative aspects. We're not under any illusions, we will now prepare for the next game.