The CSKA striker summed up the results of the match with Lada.
You don't need a lot of chances, you need enough quality chances. We didn't have enough of them today. Perhaps they were a little luckier. I can't say we were the team we were in the third period today. In the third we didn't let the opponent play at all, and in the first two we let them dispose of the puck. Hence the score.
— In the third period, CSKA was close to coming back. What was missing?
- It was probably only in the third that we started to play to our full potential. We could have come back, but I think we gave the opponent too big of a head start of four pucks. Couldn't get there, maybe didn't have enough time. But we need to start earlier.
— Why didn't it work out earlier?
— I don't want to look for any excuses. Today we couldn't, we didn't give the game our all. The opponent played their hockey and we didn't do the things we know how to do
