Crowd goes wild in Arena 2000, everyone is standing and applauding

Yan Shelepnyov comes in Dinamo goal as substitute for Lars Haugen who is penalized for misconduct -

Mexican wave going on in crowd, home supporters already celebrating

Kruchinin and Galimov combine on left side and Galimov fires at the end, but Haugen stops the puck by falling on his knees and covering it

Dmitry Maltsev intercepts one of the passes in middle zone, skates into attacking zone and fires the puck, Haugen saves the danger by deflecting puck onto his right corner

Anton But on the left side gets a nice pass from Yegor Averin – instead of shooting at once he tries to pass back to Averin and chance to score is denied by Dinamo's defenseman

Jonas Holos fires from inbetween the circles, puck goes near right post and bounves back – Haugen is forced to react quickly and covers it on the back left side of his goal

Geoff Platt fires from distance, Kolesnik deflects puck of the ice

David Ullstrom shoots from top of circles only for Haugen to stop the game

Tomas Surovy fires from right board on blue line, Kolesnik catches puck into his glove calmly

Dinamo Mn. at full strength.

Emil Galimov tries to sneak puck in at close post from behind the goal, Haugen is focused enough and covers the post

Lokomotiv occupies Dinamo's zone, but no shots fired so far

Oleg Goroshko (Dinamo Mn). 2min. hooking

Oleg Goroshko "forgets" the puck in front of his own goal – Anton But is there and tries to shoot, but is stopped by Goroshko – penalty comes

Anton But shoots from right circle free of any defense and hits Haugen right in his body

Tomas Surovy shoots from top of left circle after puck deflected from previous shot on kolesnik, but Surovy fails to score

Jacob Micflikier (Dinamo Mn) goes to penalty box for slashing – 2 min. minor

Mikelis Redlihs skates down the right side and passes the puck on the left where Anton But skates into circle with great speed. But fires, but Haugen deflects puck into his right corner

Yefimenko shoots from inbetween the circles after nice assist from left side; Kolesnik stretches and catches the puck

Play is up and down, both teams trying hard, but no real shots on any side at the moment

Jonas Holos shoots from blue line, Haugen is in trouble after he deflects puck, because one of Lomotiv's forwards almost scored on rebound – defenseman evantually clears the situation for Dinamo

Lokomotiv players are trying to apply some pressure and are spending time in attacking zone, but it is fair to say that Dinamo is also dangerous in fastbreaks.

Ilya Shinkevich fires big shot from blue line near board on right side, Kolesnik saves and holds the puck against his body

Derek Meech fires from distance, no real threat for Kolesnik

Zbynek Irgl fires from top of left circle, misses goal

Ilya Gorokhov (Lokomotiv) is penalized for high-sticking – 4 min.

Alexei Kaluzhny skates all the way from his own zone to attacking zone and gets stick to his face

Alexander Chernikov skates from behind and tries to sneak puck in on close post – defenders block the situation and some pushing occurs – no penaltiesas consequence

Lokomotiv at full strength.

Guests applying pressure, but their aattempts for eqalizing goal are well destructed

Andrei Korshunov fires from distance, puck deflects of many legs in front of Kolesnik's goal

16.Sergei Plotnikov (Lokomotiv) goes to penalty box for tripping – 2 min.

Alexander Kitarov fires from top of right circle, Kolesnik holds the puck

Lukas Krajicek tries from right side board blue line, no trouble for Kolesnik – easy deflection

Crowd in Arena 2000 is very loud and supportive for home team, however – there are also some enthusiastic supporters of Belarus side

Kolesnik covers his left post to stop tricky shot by Micflikier

Haugen covers the puck, crowd of players in front of him pushes around – no penalties though

Dinamo at full strength.

Ivan Baranka fires big time from blue line – puck deflects off of defensemen legs in front of Haugen

Alexei Yefimenko (Dinamo Mn) goes to penalty box for holding

Lokomotiv continues to pressure against shocked Dinamo side, no changes score shield

Kronwall passes the puck from blue line to the right side to Ullstrom – Ullstrom shoots immediately, but Haugen deflects the puck

First puck for Vitaly Kolesnik after Geoff Platt shot from top of right circle

Russian National Anthem is played

Belarus National Anthem is played

Lokomotiv Yaroslavl – Dinamo Minsk (Arena 2000, capacity 10,000)

Third consecutive shoot-out for Lokomotiv finally gave home team win against league's newcomer Medvescak Zagreb. Previous two shoot-outs finished with defeats against Donbass and Spartak, so the main aim for home team today is sure to win the game in regular time. Both teams (Lokomotiv and Dinamo Mn.) so far finished one game only as straight winners in this season, so there'll probably be a lot to prove in today's game. Alexei Vasilyev, the defenseman, is at the moment Lokomotiv's most prominent player with four goals in seven games. Emil Galimov (2 goals + 2 assists) and Anton But (1+3) also gathered 4 points so far. Curtis Sanford (Sv% 90.7), first choice goalie at the start of season, was injured earlier this week and Vitaly Kolesnik proved as excellent backup – his Sv% in two games is 95.0.
Dinamo Minsk was in a way close to points at Mytischi, but they lost anyway (2:3). That means their current record also is only one win in seven games and that worries Belarus team management and fans. Players are however very determined to prove their quality right versus Lokomotiv today. Goalies Lars Haugen (Sv% 92.3) and Kevin Lalande (Sv% 89.8) are OK, but they would sure built on even higher numbers if there were better support from skaters in front of them. There were 19 goals scored against Dinamo in seven games and team needs to work more aggressive on defensive part of game. Geoff Platt is the only player with 4 points (3 goals + 1 assist) from 7 games so far, none of other players managed to gather at least 3 points; sure there's a lot to be proven on offensive part too.
We'll see what happens in few hours time. Game starts 15:00 CET. Follow our live coverage.

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