St. Petersburg, Mar 18, Sergey Yaremenko. The head coach of the St. Petersburg SKA Roman Rotenberg urged not to blame the players after a major defeat from the Moscow Spartak. On Friday, SKA lost 1:6 to Spartak in the first match of the semifinal series of the Western Conference of the Continental Hockey League (KHL). The second game of the series will take place in St. Petersburg on Sunday. «The team came out prepared, but we haven't played in front of full stands for a long time. Probably burned out. The installation remained unfulfilled, we had a conversation in the locker room. Mikko Lehtonen and Mat Robinson are the leaders of the team. We have a long play «off, we count on them. We'll talk and find out the reasons. In training, they worked to the limit, like everyone else. I wouldn't blame anyone and look for scapegoats,» Rotenberg said at a press conference. «We played with «Spartak» already three matches this season. We watched their other matches. We were ready, but did not complete the installation. Hockey is a game of mistakes, we made too many of them. We paid for it,» he added.
