Mikhail Grigorenko: We deserved to win. Fortune turned to face us
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Mikhail Grigorenko: We deserved to win. Fortune turned to face us

The author of the winning goal in the match played with Lokomotiv summed up the game.   

- A serious match. Both teams played systematically. One might say - on both sides there were no mistakes made. As they say - hockey is a game of mistakes, when you are not mistaken, it is difficult to create something. And both we and they defended well. Both goalkeepers played well. In the end, we succeeded, showed some cunning - we removed the goalkeeper and realized the so-called majority.

- It turns out that such a risk is justified?

- Here it depends on the coaches how they feel about the game, whether they need to take risks or not. We played as it was planned. Of course, it’s better to win in regular time so that it doesn't happen like that, but the fans probably liked it.  

- In regular time, you had several opportunities to score, but Pasquale played great or covered the opponent’s defense. How did you manage to score in overtime?     

- We played four against three. Slepyshev passed a puck to Nesterov, he threw it great. And I rolled on a rebound, the puck bounced successfully. Somewhere we had a territorial advantage today, probably, we still deserved to win, fortune turned to face us.    

- You scored the 15th goal, and you are the best sniper on the team. Can you say that you are happy with your game?  

- The start of the season was not very good. While playing in the last matches I found my own game, plus it turns out with Pashka and Anton (Pavel Karnaukhov and Anton Slepyshev). And the majority turns out, the team wins, they manage to score.

- On Monday we will play with “Dynamo” Moscow - one of the leaders of the conference. What needs to be done to win  a victory?   

- To continue preparing, now there is a short break. You need to rest, pluck up your emotions and strength. You need to play your game. In principle, we are now doing quite well both in defense and in attack. There will be a good match, the main thing is to gain strength and emotions in front of it.