Salavat Yulaev – Dynamo 1:0 (end) | Ak Bars – SKA St. Petersburg 3:1 (end) | Spartak – Donbass 3:1 (end)
HC Slovan – Traktor 4:3 (after OT) | Lev – Metallurg M 2:5 (end)
final
Spartak Moscow
3:1 (0:0, 0:1, 3:0)
HC Donbass Donetsk
Tuesday 08.01.2013, 13:30 • DS Sokolniki • KHL
     
    Spartak earned a first win in 2013 year and still had a chance to get to play-off (16:36:42)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:31
    Goal for Spartak!


    OLEG PETROV scored an empty-netter!

    Assisted by Nikolai Bushuyev and Denis Bodrov
     
    59:13
    Lasak stopped the puck again. What a debut
     
    58:54
    Empty net and Spartak made an icing
     
    58:16
    What a save by Lasak. He dropped his stick and gloved the puck
     
    57:38
    Goal for Spartak!


    And they decided! BRANKO RADIVOJEVIC added the puck to the net after pass from Mikhail Yunkov
     
    57:07
    It's what all fans expected: fast offensive hockey. Teams seemed to decide game in regulations
     
    53:46
    Mess in Donbass zone. Bodrov was slowed with shot and was robbed. Gubin's blast was stopped
     
    52:16
    Goal for Spartak!


    Lucky goal by ANATOLY NIKONTSEV
     
    51:52
    Middle zone game again
     
    50:10
    Both teams play in full strength
     
    48:10
    Shchitov and Kochetkov got 2 minutes penaltues. 4x4
     
    47:38
    Spartak increase their speed but without real goalie chances
     
    45:31
    Voronin's shot put away Jan Laco helmet from his head. Unbelievable to see this...
     
    44:33
    Visiting team at full strength.
     
    43:33
    Lasak denied Lukas Kaspar's breakaway
     
    43:00
    Slava Kozlov with a slap shot - Laco denied
     
    42:33
    Petteri Wirtanen (DON) for holding
     
    40:01
    Start of 3rd period.
     
    40:00
    2nd period finished.
     
    35:47
    Jaroslav Obsut (SPA) got 2+10 for holding and arguing with officials
     
    34:15
    Another good save by Lasak, Donbass is better in these minutes
     
    33:41
    First Donbass line on the breakaway could add the puck to the net. Denied by Lasak
     
    33:08
    Well, eventless game in Moscow today...
     
    27:20
    Spartak can't find the way to the net of Donbass.
     
    23:34
    Goal for Donbass!


    VACLAV NEDOROST in counter-attack opened the scoring with redirecting the puck after blast.
    Assisted by Tuomas Kiiskinen and Sergei Tereshchenko
     
    23:12
    Andrei Shefer hitted the post with a middle-range shot
     
    22:56
    First moments near Donbass net. Laco freezed the puck
     
    21:22
    Lasak denied with a leg Peretyagin's blast from blue line
     
    20:01
    Start of 2nd period.
     
    20:00
    1st period finished.
     
    18:20
    Kozlov fired to the empty net, but Laco closed the angle.
     
    17:06
    First penalty of Donbass - Tuomas Kiiskinen for roughing
     
    14:40
    Spartak has a lot of problems with organizing pressure on Laco's net. Still 0-0
     
    12:00
    Sergei Varlamov missed from the slot. Spartak in full
     
    11:30
    Bartulis with slap shot from blue line - off the net
     
    10:30
    Laco made a mistake with his leaving the net, Ruzicka didn't make a nice pass
     
    09:38
    Artyom Voronin (SPA) for boarding
     
    06:53
    Kiiskinen on the breakaway. Lasak again stopped the shot
     
    06:26
    First commercial break, some problems with ice near Spartak's net
     
    05:20
    Kochetkov fired on coming to the zone and denied by Lasak. Spartak in full
     
    04:20
    Good hit by Bodrov on Robitaille. Donbass is still on PP
     
    03:15
    Nikita Shchitov (SPA) for roughing
     
    02:00
    Lasak stopped Kochetkov back-hander
     
    01:06
    Two shifts. Nothing happened on the ice
     
    00:01
    Game started.
     
    The last team at the Western conference hosts tonight Donbass Donetsk team that placed at the last playoff spot of the West.
    Two new players starts their career for Spartak: goalie Jan Lasak and veteran Slava Kozlov who will play in first line of Moscow team.

    Donbass lost three NHLers who made a weather in Ukrainian team: forwards Ruslan Fedotenko and Alexei Ponikarovsky and defenseman Anton Babchuk
     
    Welcome. Game starts at 13:30.
    Commentary by

    Igor Petrov

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 53. Nikontsev, 58. Radivojevic (Yunkov, Shefer), 60. Petrov (Bushuyev, Bodrov) - 24. Nedorost (Kiiskinen, Tereshchenko)

    Spartak Moscow: Lasak (Suchkov) - Shchitov, Shefer, Bodrov, Obsut, Morrisonn, Mamkin, Zheldakov - Radivojevic, Yunkov, Kozlov - Ruzicka, Bushuyev, Petrov - Nikontsev, Gubin, Suglobov - Ankudinov, Voronin, Mikhaylov, Romanovsky
    HC Donbass Donetsk: Laco (Goryachevskikh) - Wilson, Podhradsky, Bartulis, Tereshchenko, Kolar, Peretyagin, Silnitsky - Dadonov, Nedorost, Kiiskinen - Kaspar, Robitaille, Pettersson - Kochetkov, Donika, Varlamov - Tarasov, Wirtanen, Vasilyev