Rotenberg said the absence of the captain in the game against Torpedo affected SKA’s play.
MOSCOW, March 21 – RIA Novosti. The head coach of the St. Petersburg hockey club SKA Roman Rotenberg said that the absence of team captain Dmitry Yashkin in the match of the Gagarin Cup with Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo” affected the team.
SKA defeated Torpedo (4:0) on Monday in the third game of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) quarter-final playoff series. The reasons for the absence of Yashkin by the club were not reported. The score in the series was 3-0 in favor of SKA.
Torpedo NNRussia0 : 4
SKARussia“All this of course affects. At the same time, each of our hockey players has to reach a new level when the captain is not playing. We look forward to the next game. This is the playoffs.” area SD.
Yashkin has scored 7 points (5 goals and 2 assists) in eight games in the current Gagarin Cup. He became the top scorer of the regular season with 62 points (40 goals, 22 goals) in 67 games.
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Source: Ria
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