- Will you come next time to Vyacheslav Bykov?
- And I'm not going to Bykov. I play for the Russian team.
“But did you manage to work with him?”
- We won bronze medals. The team is heading in the right direction. We proved with our game that we have here not Sharashkin’s office, but the Russian team. Watch how they gathered after such a defeat from the Finnish national team. And they won the match for third place.
- Yesterday you were in shock?
- Of course. In the locker room the first 20 minutes after the match was silence. Nobody needed to say anything: annoyance, resentment, disappointment.
“And you had a face as if someone had died.”
- I really wanted to win, to please my relatives and friends. All the people who were worried, cheered for us, laid out a lot of money for tickets.
- Are you satisfied with your game?
- Let's keep quiet about my game.
“Didn't you like her?”
- No comments.
- The entry of the Russian team can be regarded as a success?
- We won bronze medals. It is a success.
“You won bronze medals in Vienna too.” Compare these two results.
- Then I had the second world championship. Today I became a more experienced hockey player. This time we won medals at home, with our fans. Double feeling. Then there was joy, and now slight disappointment.
- Whose idea was to greet the audience, having passed the lap of honor?
- General. In a single fit.
- But there weren’t enough spectators at the full hall ...
- So what? Someone looked at home, someone at the bar.
- Did you say any words of support to Alexander Eremenko yesterday?
“I think in such a situation it wasn’t worth anything to say to him.” Ahead was the match for third place. So you can, on the contrary, break a person. Of course, everyone advised him not to be upset.
- Today you somehow surprisingly calmly and easily won.
- Not calm and not easy. Just the first to score.
- Remember the last game. Was your mistake in missing the Finnish hockey player? Have you ever played left-back quarterback?
- There was a controversial situation. It was necessary either to run to intercept the puck or to roll back. At that moment I chose to go all the way for the puck. Of course, it's my fault. Serezha Gonchar went down to the nickel, and I played the last defender. It was necessary to act smarter. But it is impossible to do without mistakes. In Washington, I played a couple of times as a defender, but the team is another matter. In the NHL, when you get the puck, you drop right away, but here you have to do more step. But I always played where the coaches saw me.
Alexey Shevchenko