Avangard head coach Bob Hartley:

«Congratulation to Ufa for the great win and obviously winning the series. I am very proud of the game which we played.  We had a great start, unfortunately we did not cash in. Like we had few situations where we fought that we could have score some goals. I feel that we even played the better game than game 4 (the game that we won). This is play offs hockey. You have to cash on   your chances and we did not. Even that we played the great first period, we got back to the locker room, we were done 2 zip. Give credits to our players, they found the way to fight back and fight back.  But Metsola and Ufa played also a great game. It is the end of our season but at the same time we got beat by a team, we knew a lot about them since our play off last year and they deserve a lot of credits also. And in closing I want to wish them a best of luck in the second period and in the rest of play offs. »

Salavat Yulaev head coach Nikolay Tsulygin:

« Thanks for the congratulations.  I totally agree that the game was tight and plane.  It is great that we managed to use our moments, we capitalized in PP, did great in penalty killing – we did not miss any pucks, Metsola saved a lot.  The team was well knit, everybody were dying to win. We scored in the right time, when the score was 2:1 and we managed to keep the edge in 2 pucks in the 3^rd period.  It was a team win. Obviously, in the series played 2 good teams. All the games were tightly contested, despite of the score board. I am glad that our team turned out t be more strong. »