Viktor Tikhonov: "After scoring, things should become easier"

- Maybe, you only needed to fight in order to score?

- Yes, it turns out that I simply had to fight! Maybe I will drop the gloves again in the future. It's important that we took three points, the guys played really well.

- You could have achieved a Gordie Howe hat trick!

- Recently, it's been easier for me to fight rather than take points. I thought that if I fight, everything will change for the better.

- Why did you fight? What happened?

- We hit each other after the whistle, we both said something to each other. We were ready to fight. Afterwards, we thanked each other for the duel.

- Jokerit weren't great at all today.

- I think that we played with discipline. There were only those five minutes on the powerplay where we took the tempo down. Overall, we played with pace and shot a lot. We played our game.

- Despite thrashing the opponents, you didn't score on the powerplay again.

- We have things to work on. Sometimes, the puck simply doesn't go in on the powerplay. It's good that we have time before the next game in order to sort this issue out. Maybe we should change things up a bit and shoot more.

- Personally, will things now become easier for you after scoring?

- Yes. However, for my goal, I actually thought that Roman Rukavishnikov had scored. I was happy that we had found the net. It's the first goal, everything should now improve.