Vasily Koshechkin: “I am not a striker, I had no tension”

- Vasily, what is it like not to miss two matches from the game?
- (outstretched) Good.

- How difficult was the match?
- It seems to me that the main problems I had in the second period ... Otherwise, the game was not difficult.

- You have repelled 18 shots. Which was the hardest?
- In the second period, when the Finn was left alone on the “patch”.

- Did you notice that you were often thrown down? Perhaps the Finns thought it would create problems for you.
- I don’t know ... It is necessary to ask them.

- It seemed that the Russian team played the second period more slowly. Decided to take care?
- I can not say anything. We played as usual. Just the Finns in the second period, I think, added, but we were not ready for this.

- Why the Russian team could not score a hundred minutes?
- I can’t even say. Probably, goalkeepers of rivals played reliably. But when they felt ... they scored ... the tension passed.

- Nervousness, then, was?
- I'm not a striker, I had no stress.

- And there were conversations in the locker room about this?
- No, it wasn’t.

- Vyacheslav Bykov said he was counting on you at the world championship.
- I hope so. I would like to play it.

- They say that the coloring of ice in the new Palace of Sports prevents goalkeepers?
- I don’t notice any problems. I think the goalkeepers of all teams in the same conditions. And I don't care.

- Tomorrow will you play?
- I do not know. Everything depends on the coach.

Alexey Shevchenko