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final
Avangard Omsk
1:5 (1:1, 0:4, 0:0)
SKA St. Petersburg
Friday 06.09.2013, 14:00 • Omsk Arena, Omsk, Russian Federation • KHL
     
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    SKA defended their four-goal lead easily in the last 20 minutes and won 5-1 in Omsk against top team Avangard. An impressive start into the new season for the team of Jukka Jalonen.

    Shots on goal: Avangard 5 (28) – SKA 11 (32)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:58
    Someone crashed into Lassila but no penalty.
     
    58:59
    Goalie Teemu Lassila (Avangard) gets two minutes for tripping. Off course not him but one of his team mates has to sit down in the penalty box now and this is Evgeny Mozer.
     
    58:33
    Lassila covers the puck up against Tony Martensson and Patrick Thoresen.
     
    56:40
    Just when the hosts were back at full strength Kovalchuk had a huge chance from short distance but his shot was not precise enough and Lassila easily caught it!
     
    55:00
    It looks more like a training session by now. SKA do not do more than necessary and Avangard look desperate with the four-goal deficit.
     
    54:37
    Oleg Kvasha (Avangard) gets two minutes for tripping.
     
    53:18
    Avangard's Nikita Mokin is hit with a stick somewhere close to his throat and leaves the match under serious pain. The hit was non-intentional though and no penalty is given.
     
    52:21
    Hard battle for the puck in front of the Avangard net. Stanislav Yegorshev (Avangard) was a little overmotivated and receives two minutes for cross-checking against Vadim Shipachyov. The situation was alrady cleared when he jumped into his opponent!
     
    51:16
    SKA are back at full strength. Not much happening at all currently.
     
    49:16
    Andrei Sigaryov (SKA) gets two minutes for tripping.
     
    48:24
    Kovalchuk with a nice assist for Dallman but the following shot from within the slot goes wide after Lassila just managed to get part of his body in between.
     
    46:18
    Frolov from short distance, stopped by Salak.
     
    45:32
    Oleg Kvasha with the helpless try against 4 opponents, loses the puck deep inside the SKA zone and almost causes a counter attack.
     
    44:32
    Perezhogin with a long cross-pass, wants to assist in a blue line shot but the puck leaves the SKA third.
     
    43:56
    The hosts are back at full strength.
     
    42:38
    After Lassila covers up the puck in front of his own net, there is a brawl between several players on each side. The atmosphere on the ice is very heated. By now also frustration plays a role. Pivtsakin had attacked Cervenka and another SKA player was checked into the Avangard goalie.
     
    41:56
    Evgeny Mozer (Avangard) gets two minutes for tripping.
    Commentary by

    Dennis Mende

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 8. Lyamin (Kalinin) – 19. Tikhonov, 26. Tikhonov, 28. Dallman, 29. Kucheryavenko, 40. Cervenka

    Avangard Omsk: Lassila (Kostin) – Popov, Kulyash, Perezhogin, Kostitsyn, Pivtsakin – Baranka, Blatak, Tkachyov, Zaborsky, Frolov – Yegorshev, Lyamin, Kvasha, Kalinin S., Kazionov – Mokin, Pyanov, Mozer, Ivanov, Badyukov
    SKA St. Petersburg: Salak (Nalimov) – Alexandrov, Martensson, Dallman, Thoresen, Cervenka – Kalinin D., Tikhonov, Kovalchuk, Kuteikin, Shipachyov – Kucheryavenko, Ketov, Semenov, Panarin, Chudinov – Makarov, Sigaryov, Yudin, Burdasov
    Referees: Vyacheslav Bulanov, Konstantin Olenin – Sergei Misyur, Stanislav Raming
    Attendance: 10318