CHA 6:3 KZN | Amur Khabarovsk - Ak Bars Kazan (KHL)

KHL

Khabarovsk – Ak Bars	6:3 (end)	\|	Admiral – Torpedo	5:0 (end)	\|	Novokuznetsk – Dynamo	3:4 (after OT)
Traktor – Dinamo Minsk	3:0 (end)	\|	CSKA – Barys	3:0 (end)	\|	Riga – Avangard	3:1 (end)
HC Slovan – Avtomobilist	3:1 (end)	\|	Lev – HC Yugra	2:1 (end)

final

Amur Khabarovsk

6:3 (3:1,0:1, 3:1)

Ak Bars Kazan

Friday 15.11.2013, 09:00 • Platinum Arena (capacity: 7,100) • KHL

		Final word: Guests came as favorites to Khabarovsk. However – their last game vs. Admiral announced their form after 10 days break isn't particularly good. They did enter the game in great style and took the lead early, but home team proved tough nut to crack. they scored three times inside first 20 minutes to give guests something to work for. Ak Bars scored in second period and trailed by one before final 20 minutes. Pressure was expected from them right from the start and it indeed happened. However, they couldn't score. Home team did. they actually scored twice in 48th minute and that did it for today. Ak bars came closer in 55th minute, but got another puck in their empty net several seconds before final buzzer. Well deserved win for Amur. Eurolivescores player of the game – Jan Mursak (Amur) (11:36:34)
		Game stats – Shots: Amur 31, Ak Bars 36 Faceoffs: Amur 40/71, Ak Bars 31/71 Penalties: Amur 6, Ak Bars 6 Ice time leaders: Alexander Loginov (26:44 on ice, 30 shifts) for Amur and Evgeny Medvedev (21:49 on ice, 26 shifts) for Ak Bars
		Third period faceoffs: Amur 19/28, Ak Bars 11/28 Penalties: Amur 2, Ak bars 4
		Third period shot summary: Amur 9 – MURSAK 2(1), Tarasov, LUGIN, Yunkov, Stepanov, PETRUZALEK 3(1) Ak Bars 19 – Nikulin 2, Svitov, Varnakov 3, Pesonen 4, Heshka, TERESHCHENKO 2(1), Osipov, Vincour 2, Medvedev, Lukoyanov, Petrov
	60:00	Game over.
	59:34	Goal for Amur! Jan MURSAK scores his second goal of the game. He gets puck, skates into attacking zone, tricks his defenseman and hits empty net.
	59:24	Konstantin barulin leaves his goal, Ak bars add sixth skater to their team
	59:24	Visiting team timeout.
	59:24	Burmistrov shoots from inbetween circles while under pressure, Murygin saves
	58:48	Shaun Heshka shoots from distance, Murygin saves
	58:00	Two minutes left in third period
	57:21	Korotkov shoots from close range, Barulin saves
	56:57	Alexander Burmistrov shoots from inside attacking zone, Murygin saves again
	55:51	Mikhail Varnakov shoots from left side, Murygin saves and stops puck
	54:16	Goal for AK Bars! Ilya Nikulin shoots from blue line on right side, Alexei TERESHCHENKO deflects puck in front of Murygin and gives Ak bars additional ray of hope. Powerplay goal!
	53:03	Amur gets 2 min. penalty for too many players on ice – penalty will be served by Andrei Stepanov
	52:59	Burmistrov shoots from right hand side board, Murygin deflects puck into corner
	52:43	Full packed Platinum Arena supports their team very loud at the moment – Amur, Amur is heard all over the place
	51:49	Tomas Vincour fires from left side, Murygin saves
	50:40	Janne Pesonen shoots from right side faceoff circle, no real trouble for Murygin
	49:03	Jakub Petruzalek fires dangerous puck from left side, Barulin manages to deflect it into corner
	47:47	Goal for Amur! Dmitry LUGIN hits puck while Barulin tries to stop and cover it with his leg-pads. Puck enters the net and goal gets misplaced. Amur players celebrate, but guests argue. Refferees take a long look at recorded tape and decide that goal is allowed. Amur leads by three.
	47:05	Goal for Amur! JAkub PETRUZALEK gets puck by Dmitry Tarasov on left side and shoots at once – puck enters open net and Amur leads by two goals. Powerplay goal!
	46:50	Evgeny Bodrov (Ak Bars) gets 2 min. penalty for hooking
	46:23	Artyom Lukoyanov shoots from inbetween circles, slightly on right side – Murygin stops puck
	45:25	Ak Bars at full strength.
	44:31	Jan Mursak shoots from left side, Barulin deflects puck
	43:25	Ilya Nikulin (Ak Bars) gets 2 min. penalty for tripping
	41:41	Opening moments of third šperiod belonged to Ak Bars. Guests applied pressure and they obviously want to level the score as soon as possible. So far – no goals, no serious shots
	40:01	Start of 3rd period.
		Second period faceoffs: Amur 14/25, Ak Bars 11/25 Penalties – Amur 4, Ak Bars -
		Second period shot summary: Amur 11 – Dubinin, Loginov, Korotkov 2, Lugin, Shishkanov, Litovchenko 2, Smurov, Petruzalek 2 Ak Bars 11 – Bodrov, Svitov, Tokranov 2, Heshka, Obukhov, Tkachyov, Osipov, MEDVEDEV 3(1)
	40:00	2nd period finished.
	39:02	Home team at full strength.
	39:00	One minute left in second period
	38:44	Evgeny Medvedev shoots another puck, Murygin is focused this time and stops puck
	37:02	Timofei Shishkanov (Amur) gets 2min. penalty for slashing
	36:36	Loginov fires from distance, Barulin saves
	34:58	Vasily Tokranov fires from left hand side board, Murygin deflects puck
	33:08	Evgeny Medvedev shoots from distance, Murygin deflects puck into corner
	31:49	Korotkov fires from top of faceoff circles, Barulin saves
	30:03	Home team at full strength.
	29:43	Amur fails to score on shorthanded fast breakaway
	28:03	Artyom Sedunov (Amur) gets 2 min. penalty for hooking
	27:48	Sergei Smurov shoots from left hand side board, Barulin deflects
	26:17	Evgeny Korotkov shoots from top of right circle, Barulin deflects puck into corner
	25:38	Evgeny Medvedev shoots again; this time Murygin saves his shot
	24:11	Dmitry Lugin shoots from left side, Barulin deflects another puck
	22:51	Shishkanov fires from close range, Barulin saves
	21:20	Goal for AK Bars! Evgeny MEDVEDEv skates inside Amur's zone with high speed. He shoots from some meter inside the zone and surprises Murygin.
	20:01	Start of 2nd period.
		First period faceoffs: Amur 7/18, Ak Bars 11/18 Penalties: Amur -, Ak Bars 2
		Opening period shot summary: Amur 11 – MURSAK 2(1), Dubinin 2, Loginov, Korotkov, Salcido, SHISHKANOV 2(1), LITOVCHENKO, Smurov Ak Bars 6 – Bodrov 2, Stapleton 2, SVITOV, Tereshchenko
	20:00	1st period finished.
	19:06	Goal for Amur! Vyacheslav LITOVCHENKO benefits on sloppy defending by guests. Puck was simply left in front of Barullin's goal and Alexander Yunkov was given a chance to beat guests' goali; Barullin saved at first, but Litovchenko was there to score on rebound
	19:00	One minute left in first period
	18:15	Alexei Tereshchenko shoots from top of left faceoff circle, Murygin stops puck
	17:30	Evgeny Bodrov fires for Ak Bars, Murygin deflects puck
	16:41	Artyom Dubinin fires another shot, Barullin is focused and deflects puck into corner
	15:38	Brian Salcido shoots from blue line, Barullin deflects
	14:08	Goal for Amur! Timofei SHISHKANOV shoots from left side, Jan Mursak blocks view for Barullin and puck enters Ak BArs' net. Powerplay goal! Assist – Andrei Stepanov.
	12:39	Janne Pesonen (Ak Bars). 2min. interference
	11:52	Tim Stapleton shoots from inbetween faceoff circles, Murygin stops puck
	11:05	Evgeny Bodrov fires from right side faceoff circle, Murygin deflects puck into corner
	09:48	Artyom Dubinin fires again, another deflection by Barullin happens
	08:26	Goal for Amur! Jan MURSAK, Slovenian international levelled the result to prove that this Amur side still has some dynamite.
	07:57	Artyom Dubinin shoots from top of faceoff circles, BArullin saves
	07:13	Sergei Smurov shoots from left side, Barullin saves
	05:30	Amur is yet to fire a shot; their attacking actions are denied so far, although it is fair to say that they are trying to apply some pressure
	03:57	Alexei Tereshchenko shoots from left side, Murygin deflects puck
	02:19	Goal for AK Bars! Alexander SVITOV shoots from leht hand side board, puck deflects off of Dylan Reese in front of goal and finishes inside home net
	01:35	Tim Stapleton fires from top of right faceoff circle, Murygin stops puck
	00:01	Game started.
		Russian National Anthem is played
		Amur's loosing streak is now already 7 games long. Financial problems and bad performances in current KHL campaign are breaking the spirit of this Russian Far East team. There are rumours of some changes inside the team, some of the most prominent players are apparently on sale. Lat defeat happened two days ago at Khabarovsk vs. Torpedo, but team fought up until the end and let guests win after shootout only. That indicates that there remains a good will to improve. Will similar be presented today? Ak Bars are therefore Eurolivescores favorites for this game. Not that such title secures a winning outcome for them. Anyway – Ak Bars is telling exactly the opposite story. Yes, they have lost their Wednesday game at another Far East road game vs. Admiral, but they are leading Eastern Conference standings and already performed great in some of this season's games. They are second overall in the League and are sure ready to improve on poor impression they left in Vladivostok.
		Welcome. Game starts at 09:00.

Commentary by

Ben Kelsson

@MarcusLuxie

Goals & lineups Match log

Goals and assists: 9. MURSAK (Stepanov), 15. SHISHKANOV (Stepanov), 20. LITOVCHENKO (Yunkov), 48. PETRUZALEK (Tarasov), 48. LUGIN, 60. MURSAK (Tarasov, Korotkov) – 3. SVITOV (Tokranov), 22. MEDVEDEV (Heshka), 55. TERESHCHENKO (Nikulin, Korneyev)

Amur Khabarovsk: Murygin Yeryomin – Loginov Salcido Tarasov Korotkov Petruzalek – Sedunov Loginov Mursak Shishkanov Stepanov – Reese Bykov Lugin Yunkov Litovchenko – Bykov Teryayev Dubinin Smurov Klimchuk

Ak Bars Kazan: Barulin Yaroslavlev – Nikulin Korneyev Tereshchenko Vincour Petrov – Heshka Medvedev Stapleton Varnakov Burmistrov – Tokranov Osipov Svitov pesonen Obukhov – Yatullin Bodrov Tkachyov Lukoyanov Faizullin

Referees: Odins, Romasko – Menshikh, Morozov

Attendance: 7,100

1st period
	02:19
	08:26
	14:08
	19:06
1st intermission
2nd period
	21:20
	37:02
2nd intermission
3rd period
	47:05
	47:47
	53:03
	54:16
	59:34
Final