Novosibirsk – Novokuznetsk 6:1 (end) | SKA St. Petersburg – HC Sochi 3:2 (end)
final
SKA St. Petersburg
3:2 (0:1, 2:0, 1:1)
HC Sochi
Saturday 06.09.2014, 15:00 • Ice Palace of Saint Petersburg • KHL
     
    There is the final buzzer, and in an end to end encounter SKA Saint Petersburg have picked up their second KHL win of the season with a 3:2 triumph over HC Sochi! Andrey Pervyshin put the league's debutants ahead, before Anton Belov and Artemiy Panarin gave the home side the lead. Ilya Krikunov pinned them back, but Anton Belov's second made sure that it was SKA's day. Thanks for following the game with us, and see you again soon for more exciting KHL action! (17:18:10)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:51
    It's now the final seconds with SKA heading for a thrilling 3:2 win over the league's newbies HC Sochi!
     
    59:11
    Anton Belov could have had a hat trick for himself, but after some neat moves he hits the covering defender's legs instead of the net! He should have sealed it there!
     
    58:40
    And Tomas Popperle has indeed been pulled for the extra skater, it's all or nothing for the away side now!
     
    58:40
    Alexander Salak cleverly fields a dump from deep into his crease glove side to freeze. And HC Sochi have now taken a timely timeout!
     
    58:05
    The final two minutes are already upon us! HC Sochi are giving it everything they've got though trying to force the issue!
     
    56:31
    Alexander Shevchenko tries to again reply for HC Sochi, but when slightly off balance cutting to the slot along the right his backhander is comfortably punched away by the netminder
     
    55:45
    Just in Anton Belov's celebration you can see how much that goal means to SKA! The energy is flowing through the Saint Petersburg Ice Palace!
     
    53:57
    Goal for SKA! This place is simply bouncing now! Teed up by the left faceoff circle ANTON BELOV first time thumps the puck into the near corner deceiving Tomas Popperle! It's 3:2! Assists- Vadim Shipachyov and Artemiy Panarin
     
    52:40
    Alexey Krutov this time between the circles tries his luck, but Alexander Salak beautifully flashes leather to catch!
     
    51:33
    SKA are back at full strength with the home crowd becoming impatient!
     
    50:44
    Krutov! Igor Ignatushkin to the right of the crease plays a neat feed across, but Alexey Krutov far post with the goal gaping just can't make contact! What an opening that was!
     
    49:33
    HC Sochi are noticeably growing in confidence and they've earnt a powerplay for themselves, Artemiy Panarin of SKA for tripping is the guilty party
     
    47:40
    SKA need to find their game again soon, they have bossed proceedings more as the match has worn on but won't like the score right now!
     
    46:02
    Panarin! You just have to put away such opportunities! Breaking away one on one cutting to the middle Artemiy Panarin can't find the target with the backhand!
     
    44:46
    Goal for HC Sochi! That wasn't in the script! Just as SKA were looking tighter defensively ILYA KRIKUNOV is allowed to twist all around the net to the right hand post, and he catches out the netminder with a high effort! It's 2:2! Assists- Alexey Krutov
     
    42:05
    SKA apart from that one HC Sochi opportunity didn't let their opponents create anything and they're back at full strength
     
    41:49
    Alexander Salak loses his bearings completely as Nikita Schitov's testing wrister rebounds off the boards and all the way to his left hand post, and he's lucky than no one from Sochi could get to the puck in time!
     
    40:05
    As soon as the third and deciding stanza has got underway SKA have picked up a rather silly penalty! Ilya Kovalchuk for roughing has been penalised!
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 31. Belov (Thoresen, Martensson), 33. Panarin (Dadonov, Shipachyov), 54. Belov (Shipachyov, Panarin) – 3. Pervyshin (Olver, Koledov), 45. Krikunov (Krutov)

    SKA St. Petersburg: Salak (Shestyorkin)- Kalinin, Khafizullin, Kovalchuk, Ericsson, Tikhonov- Y Alexandrov, Ryasensky, Panarin, Shipachyov, Dadonov- Chudinov, Belov, Thoresen, Martensson, Cervenka- Ermakov, Yudin, Makarov, Kucheryavenko, Ketov
    HC Sochi: Popperle (Gavrilov)- Koledov, Pervyshin, Shevchenko, Olver, Anisin- Jarvinen, Pautov, Petersson, Emmerton, Warn- Wilson, Schitov, Krikunov, Ignatushkin, Krutov- Petrov, Plekhanov, Demkov, Lebedev, Shcherbina
    Referees: Alexey Anisimov, Vyacheslav Bulanov, Alexey Maytak, Evgeniy Pronskikh
    Attendance: 11048