Moscow Spartak hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk said that he expected a worse game from him in the first match after returning to the red-whites. His words guide the way “Match TV”.
“We are not robots, everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is that everyone supports. I haven’t played it in a long time but I thought it would be worse. Thank you all very much for your support. “Today I felt that Spartak is a people’s team,” said the forward.
The match was played at the Luzhniki Arena in Moscow and ended with Spartak winning 5:2. Kovalchuk scored the goal. Among the winners, Michal Czajkowski, Nikolay Goldobin, Andrey Loktionov and Egor Filin also scored. Jack Rodewald and Jiang Fu scored for the Chinese club.
40-year-old Kovalchuk took to the ice in the team’s second row, along with Maxim Tsyplakov and Andrei Loktionov. He made a scoring error in the second period: After losing the puck, he played in the opponent’s minority and scored a goal for the first time in the match. At the end of the match, Kovalchuk himself threw the puck into the empty net.
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