MOSCOW, Oct 7, Andrey Senchenko. Forward of Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo » Vasily Atanasov admitted that he was surprised by his hat-trick in the regular season match of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) against Dynamo Moscow, as well as by the number of caps that fans threw on the ice after his third goal.
The meeting, which took place in Moscow on Saturday, ended with the victory of Torpedo (7:1). As part of the guests, forward Vasily Atanasov scored a hat-trick, who became the youngest scorer of a hat-trick in the history of Nizhny Novgorod (21 years and 12 days).
“»I didn’t expect to score a hat-trick today. When the caps flew onto the ice after my third goal, I thought: “Wow, there are so many of them.” Enough is enough!» I don’t know what I’ll do with them. The second period is such a period of time when you can not let your opponent change and catch him out of fatigue. When the pucks flew in one after another in the second period, all I could think about was this continued. When we scored several goals in a row, we caught the confidence and disorientated the opponent. I think this period was the best of the current season. In the third period we paid more attention to defense in order to prevent the opponent from returning to the game. Fears that the opponent will provoke a fight, it was not. We were extremely concentrated, expected a power struggle and were ready for blows,» Atanasov told reporters.