The last seven to eight minutes we played in their zone. |
The puck went in, and the referee admitted that he had blown the whistle before the puck went in and apologized. It was a really tough break. It would have been great to have the tie at that point, and take our chances in overtime. |
There are so many players on our team who are great leaders and would have been excellent choices. So this means a lot. |
They didn't give us any opportunities to create any scoring chances. |
They have a lot of superstars and they can put the puck in the net and create a lot of scoring chances. But Nabokov and our defense kept holding, kept holding, and we finally got a chance on the power play. |
This is a huge win for Russia because of the history with Canada. Now, we go forward. |
This is a very big honor for me, |
We had chances to advance the lead and get momentum. |
We have to raise our game and play our best hockey in the medal round. It was a good practice today because I think every line was clicking. |
We let a lot of games slip away. We spent a lot of time chasing points, and those points wound up costing us the playoffs. |
We lost control of the game. |
We played as a team and it's with great pride that we beat a team like Canada. |
We try to stay away from [that kind of thing]. A penalty like that could cost us the game. But he's young and he can learn. |
When I was drafted there wasn't so much high expectations of me. Nobody knew I'd go so high like that. With him it's different because there is a lot of pressure and a lot of expectations. |