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Novokuznetsk – Khabarovsk 3:1 (end) | Novosibirsk – Admiral 3:2 (end)
final
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
3:1 (0:0, 2:1, 1:0)
Amur Khabarovsk
Monday 09.09.2013, 14:00 • Kuznetsk Metallurgists Sports Palace, Novokuznetsk, Russian Federation • KHL
     
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    Shots on goal: MNK 13 (26), AMU 14 (43)
    Faceoffs: MNK 13 (26), AMU 11 (33)
    Penalties: MNK 2 (10), AMU 0 (6)

    Pavel Kanarsky led Metallurg to anothe win with 18:40 spent on the ice, while Brian Salcido went 24:46 of ice time in this game.
     
    Metallurg take their second win of the championship, while Amur still struggle to get the first lead of the new season. They struggle offensive-wise, while their defense is somewhat organized, but can't be concentrated all the time without the help up front.
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:29
    Another icing by Metallurg while Amur can't generate a quality shot with six men on the ice.
     
    58:56
    Icing Metallurg. They take the timeout.
     
    58:37
    Petruzalek controls the puck on the left side and send it to the middle where there's a lot of traffic, but the puck went all the way to the other side with no one able to get the hold of it.
     
    58:11
    Murygin leaves the net for Amur to go with an extra attacker.
     
    58:00
    Two minutes left in the third period.
     
    57:44
    Amur take the timeout.
     
    57:44
    Offside Metallurg.
     
    56:37
    Amur put pressure on Metallurg's defense keeping the puck in their zone, but the shots get deflected off the defenders coming from the blueline.
     
    55:34
    Metallurg is back at full strength.
     
    54:23
    Kurtis McLean leads the attack on the right wing with a defender skating aside him. He sends the feed to the left post where there's a forward trying to take the puck to the right corner with his back turned to Murygin, who makes a pad save.
     
    53:34
    Pavel Kanarsky (MNK) is called for cross checking in front of his net.
     
    53:10
    Goal for Novokuznetsk!
    A breakaway from the zone off the faceoff before Hovinen. The puck is shot away from the zone and SEMYON VALUISKY gets to it first to get a breakaway all alone with the goalie, coming from the left side. A great deke to the other side gets him in position to score in the lower right corner while Murygin can't recover and get back.

    Assist: Yegor Martynov.
     
    52:44
    The attack led by Amur is taken on the right wing and the pass is back to the middle blueline, but the shot is too slow to beat Hovinen.
     
    52:08
    Denis Yezhov dumps the puck from the right side of the blueline, but the dump is too high and goes over the glass.
     
    51:07
    Alexander Yunkov takes the puck into the zone on the left wing and dekes an opponent out sending the feed to Aksyonenko on the blueline, but his shot is deflected by defense not reaching the goalie.
     
    50:37
    Murygin records a save as the puck is shot from the right side outside the circle close to the boards. It's taken to the near post, in the lower corner, but with help of his pads, Murygin saves.
    Commentary by

    Alan Ilijic

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 22. Anttila (Martynov), 29. Nazarov (Yemelin, Vyglazov), 54. Valuisky (Martynov) – 28. Yunkov (Loginov, Korotkov)

    Metallurg Novokuznetsk: Hovinen (Sorokin) – Giroux, Anttila, McLean, Martynov, Kosourov – Mantyla, Aksyonenko, Akhmetov, Zyuzyakin, Yemelin – Valuisky, Kanarsky, Kapotov, Lapenkov, Zhafyarov – Kurepanov, Vyglazov, Skutar, Nazarov, Chernov
    Amur Khabarovsk: Murygin (Yeryomin) – Reese, Mursak, Tarasov, Salcido, Petruzalek – Yezhov, Korotkov, Yunkov, Bykov, Stepanov – Loginov, Fisenko, Lugin, Litovchenko, Bilalov – Smurov, Orlov, Teryayev, Kryukov
    Referees: Bukin, Buturlin – Matyusha, Pavlov