MOSCOW, April 15, Andrey Senchenko. Captain of the Moscow hockey club CSKA defender Nikita Nesterov did not attach much importance to the words that the army team allegedly ends the championship move.
After the final series of the Western Conference of the KHL between CSKA and SKA St. Petersburg (4-2), the head coach of the club from the city on the Neva, Roman Rotenberg, expressed the opinion that Muscovites «the championship window is closing.» CSKA is the current owner of the Gagarin Cup. In the KHL playoff final of the 2022/23 season, the Red-Blues will play with Ak Bars Kazan.
“It's good that we got an extra day off before the final. We had three very difficult series. We rested for a couple of days, now we are working as planned. We feel good functionally. a little later. Do we want revenge for the defeat in the final of 2018? No. What happened in the past is already forgotten. Now there will be a new final, everything is new. As for the statement of our previous opponent that CSKA is allegedly closing the championship window, he reacted calmly to it. Time will tell who opens and closes what,» Nesterov told reporters.