KHL
Ak Bars – Traktor 1:2 (end)
final
Ak Bars Kazan
1:2 (0:0, 0:1, 1:1)
Traktor Chelyabinsk
Thursday 04.04.2013, 17:00 • KHL
     
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    A last minute goal by Andrei Kostitsyn wins game #7 of the Eastern Conference finals for Traktor and sends his team to the Gagarin Cup finals for the first time in their history after a race to catch up that turned around completely a 1-3 deficit in the series! In the finals they will face Dynamo Moscow!

    Shots on goal: Ak Bars 9 (31) – Traktor 6 (23)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:44
    Huge short distance shot by Zaripov, goes just wide!
     
    59:30
    Barulin leaves his net for an extra attacker!
     
    59:30
    Goal for Traktor!


    Is this the very late decision in favour of the guests? Petri Kontiola received the puck at the right circle, gave a perfect cross pass towards the far corner and from there ANDREI KOSTITSYN sent the puck past Barulin for the 2-1 guest lead! This strike came completely out of nowhere!

    Assisted by Petri Kontiola and Maxim Yakutsenya.
     
    58:56
    Garnett is in the corner on time to clear the situation...
     
    58:32
    Very dangerous shot from the blue line, at height of the left wing, by Medvedev. The puck went just past the right top corner!
     
    58:00
    The last two minutes of regulation were just announced.
     
    57:42
    Shot by Traktor's Kuznetsov from a half left position, blocked by a defender.
     
    57:23
    The guests are back at full strength.
     
    57:18
    Deron Quint blocks a puck with his body after a shot by Alexei Tereshchenko. The hosts are not happy with the following break in play.
     
    56:58
    Ilya Nikulin with a shot from the blue line that is deflected over the glass.
     
    56:23
    Now also an offside call on the other side of the ice against Ak Bars' Danis Zaripov.
     
    55:38
    Offside call against Traktor's Deron Quint.
     
    55:23
    Stanislav Chistov (Traktor) gets two minutes for hooking. In such a crucial situation Ak Bars now have the opportunity to win this game!
     
    55:15
    Delayed penalty against Traktor.
     
    54:35
    The hosts are now going for the win in regulation!
     
    54:07
    Goal for AK Bars!


    Nice combination by the hosts on the left wing and the cross-pass comes to the second post from where JANNE PESONEN had no problems at all to send the puck over the goal line for the deserved equalizer!

    Assisted by Dmitry Obukhov and Jarkko Immonen.
     
    53:40
    Valery Nichushkin wins the puck inside the Ak Bars zone after a weak pass by Pesonen but he was stopped behind the net!
    Commentary by

    Dennis Mende

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 55. Pesonen (Obukhov, Immonen) – 32. Antipov (Quint, Kostitsyn), 60. Kostitsyn (Kontiola, Yakutsenya)

    Ak Bars Kazan: Barulin (Garipov) – Nikulin, Korneyev, Kulyash, Medvedev, Zakharchuk, Khomitsky, Yarullin – Zaripov, Kapanen, Morozov, Pesonen, Immonen, Obukhov, Tereshchenko, Lukoyanov, Petrov, Bodrov, Golubev, Zherdev
    Traktor Chelyabinsk: Garnett (Fokin) – Quint, Ryabykin, Vasilchenko, Belov, Katichev, Razin, Shinin, Nesterov – Chistov, Bulis, Kuznetsov, Kontiola, Yakutsenya, Kostitsyn, Popov, Nichushkin, Antipov, Lemtyugov, Glinkin, Karpov
    Referees: Gofman, Ronn – Sivov, Shelyanin