- How is your health?
- After a week's break, it was hard. But, I hope, through training I will quickly get in shape.
- Injury does not bother?
- Everything is fine, healed.
- Everyone was waiting for your Kazan troika in full force, at each stage of the Eurotour. But for various reasons, you could not get together. Will everything be okay now?
- Yes, do not worry. Come out, play. Show your hockey. I hope so.
- Are you ready to go on the ice in the second final match of the Eurotour against Sweden?
- If they say - I’ll play. But in general, after a break, I need time to get in perfect shape.
- You trained with NHL players today. In your opinion, are they in good shape?
- Yes. The guys are ready. Although, of course, you should not draw any serious conclusions on training. There are matches for this.
- Playoff games have shown that your link with Sergey Zinoviev and Alexei Morozov is in decline. Is it so?
“I would not call it a recession.” There was some bad luck. Do not score. Plus a little fatigue.
“Is it all over now?”
- Can not say anything. We need to see how we play.
- They also say that there is some kind of internal conflict in your link. He will not hurt you to show himself at the World Cup?
- I would not say that we have any conflicts. Normal working moments. Nothing serious.
- How are you feeling after the championship? Defeat, especially in the finale, is always unpleasant.
- I have already left. Pretty quickly I succeeded. And the guys, I think, realized that they lost to a worthy opponent in an equal game.
- Will they let you go home before the World Cup or have you already reached the home stretch?
“I didn’t hear that we planned so long a weekend.” Probably, they will be able to get home only after the World Cup.
- Have you seen the game of the national team in Sweden?
- She was shown late with us, but I found out the score of the match earlier. Looked only at the first period.
- And how do you like it?
- At the end of the first period, ours managed to level the game, although at first the Swedes had an advantage.
- Is it not true that Vasily Koshechkin played well?
- Of course. I don’t know what was being pumped here. Vasily is in no way inferior to the best goalkeepers.
- That is, do you think that there is no goalkeeper problem in the team?
- This, of course, to evaluate the coaches. But I believe that Koshechkin can handle it.
- Have you heard about the story with Semin?
- No details. I know that he was expelled from the team.
- All this takes place under the motto: "there is one discipline for all." Do you agree with this slogan?
- Of course. It should be always and everywhere.
Alexey Shevchenko