Powerful comeback “Ak Bars”, “Tractor” is the last in the East. The results of the KHL game day
SKA and Avtomobilist continue to win, Salavat won in Novosibirsk with 11 forwards.
On December 8, nine matches took place as part of the Fonbet Championship of the KHL. Let’s briefly talk about each of them.
In Khabarovsk, the next series of the Far East derby was played by Amur and Admiral. In the first period, the teams exchanged goals (Bocharov answered Shevchenko’s puck), and in the second period, Nikolai Chebykin scored, as it turned out, the decisive goal in the 31st minute. 28 saves by Nikita Serebryakov predetermined the success of the Admiral, and Rudolf Cherveny three seconds before the final siren set the final score in the match. “Admiral” interrupted a three-match losing streak and did not let go ahead in the table “Salavat Yulaev”, and “Amur” lost, but remained in the playoff zone in the East.
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“Salavat Yulaev” after success in Omsk came to Novosibirsk and won the second victory in a row. The triumph of Viktor Kozlov’s wards, who, due to injuries and illnesses, were forced to play 11 forwards, predetermined a 134-second stretch in the second period, during which Salavat scored three goals and sent Denis Kostin to the bench. Sibir did not give up, won back two goals (Vladimir Butuzov scored a double), but the Ufa team did not give up this match. 6:3, “Salavat” again catches the winning wave, “Siberia” went on pause with a load of two home defeats in a row.
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Avangard in Omsk hosted Ak Bars and in the first period stunned the Kazan team with two goals in the majority: Ivan Telegin and Arseniy Gritsyuk scored. For the “hawks” everything was going well, but in the second period the guests added, made the Omsk team make mistakes and bounced back: first, the Shipachev-Kagarlitsky link worked, and then Dynyak delivered a perfect throw after winning the throw-in.
The fate of the match was decided in overtime, where Dmitry Yudin became the hero, and Vasily Demchenko became the anti-hero. The Kazan defender punched the Avangard goalkeeper with a throw from the entrance to the zone and brought Ak Bars their first victory over Omsk in the season.
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In Yekaterinburg, geographical neighbors met at different poles of the Eastern standings. Traktor opened the scoring in the 10th minute with the efforts of Alexei Byvaltsev, but Jesse Blacker scored a return goal before the break, and in the middle of the match Efim Gurkin scored the winning goal.
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The result of this game, coupled with the unexpected defeat of Metallurg in Nizhnekamsk, allowed Avtomobilist to increase the lead in the conference to seven points, while Traktor meets a pause for the home All-Star Game in last place in the East.
The most ineffective match of the game day was held in Yaroslavl. Here, the quite successful Lokomotiv suddenly lost to the outsider of the West, Kunlun, and even at zero. The only goal of the Chinese team in the 20th minute was scored by Jack Rodewald, and the main character of the “dragons” was the goalkeeper Matt Jurasik, who repelled 47 shots from Yaroslavl.
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Metallurg won two out of three periods in Nizhnekamsk, but did not take a single point from Tatarstan. All because of the completely lost second period, in which Neftekhimik sent three unanswered goals to the gates of Vasily Koshechkin. The brace was scored by Ilya Fedotov, and the experienced goalkeeper, because of this opportunity, started the third period already on the bench.
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In Balashikha, Vityaz and Sochi played an equal first period, but then the southern team, weakened by the level of the composition and illnesses, fell apart. Artemy Pleshkov conceded three goals in 10 minutes of the second segment and finished the match, and Maxim Tretyak, who came out instead of him, conceded two more goals in the final twenty minutes. Dmitry Zavgorodniy’s goal only slightly sweetened the pill for Sergei Svetlov’s wards, Vladislav Kara and Stanislav Yarovoy became the main characters in Vityaz, who scored twice each.
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And one more match, where one of the teams had a huge failure in the second period! Dynamo Minsk won 1-0 against SKA by the 33rd minute, and then conceded three goals in 188 seconds, two of them from Nikita Gusev. True, then the Belarusians were able to level the score, but the goals of Dmitry Yashkin and Alexander Volkov in the middle of the third period brought another victory to the army team.
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In Moscow, Spartak and Dynamo played retroderby with all the attributes: retro uniforms, unique costumes of the coaching staff, and so on. The match was tense, but not too spectacular. Timur Khairullin opened the scoring only in the 48th minute, Dynamo bounced back in the 50th through the efforts of Ilya Kablukov, and the final victory for the white-and-blues in the shootout was brought by a successful attempt by Dmitry Rashevsky.
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