Anvar Gatiyatulin: whole team was pretty good tonight

Dmitri Yushkevich, interim Severstal head coach:
- First off, congratulations to Traktor on tonight’s victory. They created plenty of scoring chances and got a well-deserved win. We knew Traktor is a force to be reckoned with, especially on home ice. Even if they lost, they did that in overtime or in shootouts. This was our fourth straight away game, and fatigue has seemingly taken its toll. Another mistake was trying to play without taking and delivering hits. It is not how any team should play against Traktor. The goal we allowed late in the first was the most important one in this game. On the plus side is the performance by Roman Smiryagin who kept us in the game for two periods. We now have to find out what we lacked to get a win tonight.

Anvar Gatiyatulin, interim Traktor head coach:
- We suffered three losses before this game, so everyone could see how constrained the team looked like. Luckily, two goals in the first were enough to get the victory. The whole team looked pretty good tonight. We were also pretty good in the D. As usual, on behalf of my team I would like to thank our fans for their unending support.