KHL
Torpedo – Neftekhimik 3:4 (end) | Lokomotiv – Ak Bars 2:3 (end) | Vityaz – Metallurg M 4:3 (after OT)
Donbass – SKA St. Petersburg 3:2 (end) | Dinamo Minsk – Avtomobilist 3:6 (end)
final
HC Donbass Donetsk
3:2 (1:1,2:0, 0:1)
SKA St. Petersburg
Wednesday 28.11.2012, 17:00 • Druzhba Palace of Sports • KHL
     
    A much deserved win for underdog Donbass today. The home team simply outhustled and outworked SKA for much of the game, especially in the third period. Donbass put forth a tremendous defensive effort in the game, and did a good job of containing SKA's deadly top line.

    Shots on goal in the third period were 12-6 in favor of SKA. For the game, Donbass outshot SKA by a narrow 32-31 margin, but they had the better of the scoring chances.

    Thank you for joining us today! See you next time.... (20:12:45)
     
    57:55
    SKA calls timeout.
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    58:59
    Donbass calls timeout.
     
    58:07
    SKA penalty. Even up up call. Pricha off for tripping behind the Donbass net. Teams will skate 4-on-4 and then Donbass gets a short power play late in regulation.
     
    56:44
    Donbass at full strength.
     
    54:44
    Dombass penalty. Babchuk flipped the puck over the glass and got a delay of game penalty. SKA to the power play.
     
    57:55
    Donbass penalty. Tupparainen off for tripping. SKA with the power play again and a chance to tie.
     
    55:17
    Thoresen came with a hair of tying the game. Laco got just enough of the shot and then smothered the rebound.
     
    54:36
    Fedorov has dominated Fedotenko in the faceoff circle today. Just won another one cleanly.
     
    53:25
    Rybin dialed up a slapshot from the deep slot and overpowered Laco.

    SKA is now back within one goal. As the late, great Gene Hart used to say, "Buckle your seatbelts, my friends!"
     
    53:25
    Goal for SKA!
    Scorer is RYBIN.
     
    47:55
    Kiiskinen eludes a check and makes a nice move to the outside. Couldn't hang onto the puck as he tried to to cut from the circle.
     
    47:15
    Play has stabilized as mid-period approaches. Bobrovsky just squeezed the pads on a shot from Fedotenko from the right point. Stoppage of play.
     
    45:12
    Best shift for SKA since the first period. Thoresen in particular had his skating legs going and kept Donbass hemmed in deep for nearly 40 seconds.
     
    43:56
    Bobrovsky denies a wrap-around try for Nedorost.
     
    41:06
    Nice move to the outside by Fedotenko. Puts a backhander on net but Bobrovsky had that one covered all the way.
     
    40:01
    3rd period began.
     
    Sergei Bobrovsky singlehandedly kept SKA even for much of the period but Donbass finally broke through. The goal late in the period is potentially huge for Donbass.

    Shots in the second period were 17-6 in Donbass' favor. Shots are 26-19 for Donbass through two periods.
     
    40:00
    2nd period finished.
    Commentary by

    Bill Meltzer

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 11. Kiiskinen (Dadonov), 30. Pettersson (Tupparainen, Dadonov), 40. Wilson (Tuppurainen) - 4. Kovalchuk (Kalinin), 54. Rybin

    HC Donbass Donetsk: Laco (Berezin); Bartulis, Wilson, Babchuk, Kolar, Peretyagin,Podhradsky, Tereshchenko; Fedotenko, Ponikarovsky, Pettersson, Dadonov, Nedorost, Virtanen, Kiiskinen, Belukhin, Varlamov, Kvitchenko, Matousek, Nikiforov, Tupparainen.
    SKA St. Petersburg: Bobrovsky (Ezhov); Dallman, Kalinin, Alexandrov, Vorobyov, Berdyukov, Serkin, Chudinov; Kovalchuk, Thoresen, Mårtensson, Prucha, Kucheryavenko, Rybin, Tarasenko, Afinogenov, Artyukhin, Fedorov, Makarov, Burdasov, Nepryayev.
    Referees: Rogachyov, Sergeyev, Maitak (L), Pronskikh (L)
    Attendance: 4004