MOSCOW, September 23 Head coach of St. Petersburg SKA Roman Rotenberg said that his team’s goalkeeper Artemy Pleshkov played phenomenally in the regular championship match of the Kontinental Hockey League against Khabarovsk “Amur”.
On Saturday in Khabarovsk, SKA beat Amur with a score of 4:0. 20-year-old Pleshkov made 39 saves and kept his goal intact for the first time in a KHL match.
«»The goalkeeper played phenomenally, but the whole team helped him. The goalkeeper's work is at the last line, but there is also the first line — the attackers, the second — the defenders. Everyone helped Pleshkov, but he is also great. We have goalkeeper Johan Mattsson injured, he was out for a long time. Other guys in such a situation take on the role of leaders. God grant Artemy good luck so that he continues to work and play like this. He is a very interesting goalkeeper, courageous. This courage is transmitted to the whole team. His eyes sparkle, it carries over to our other guys,” the club’s official website quotes Rotenberg.
SKA scored 8 points and takes seventh place in the Western Conference, having won a second victory in a row after a series of five defeats.