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final/OT
HC Yugra
3:4 (1:2, 1:0, 0:1, 0:1)
Ak Bars Kazan
Tuesday 08.10.2013, 15:00 • Arena-Ugra • KHL
     
    Shots on goal: 0 (28) – 4 (33)
    Penalty minutes: 6 – 20 (17:22:59)
     
    Game over.
     
    63:30
    Goal for AK Bars!

    Medvedev takes a shot from the blue line and ALEXANDER SVITOV acquires the rebound and shoots it past Mikhail Biryukov.
     
    61:14
    Medvedev takes a shot from the blue line and Janne Pesonen changes its direction into the pads of Biryukov.
     
    60:01
    Overtime began.
     
    Early in the third Jonas Andersson scored a powerplay goal, giving Yugra a well-deserved 3:2 lead, however already in the second part of the period Varnakov managed to tie the game leading it to an overtime.

    SOG: 9 (28) – 3 (27)
    PIM: 0 (6) – 4 (20)
     
    60:00
    3rd period finished.
     
    57:54
    Jonas Andersson steals the puck right in front of Garipov's net, but fails to beat the goaltender.
     
    56:02
    The puck hasn't left Yugra's defensive zone for a while now.
     
    54:56
    None of the teams are rushing forward at this part of the game.
     
    52:59
    Goal for AK Bars!

    Ak Bars manage to tie the game as MIKHAIL VARNAKOV received a pass from behind the net and puts the puck in the upper left corner.
     
    50:37
    Visiting team at full strength.
     
    49:18
    The puck ends up in Garipov's crease where Savinainen repeatedly tries to push it in the net, but ultimately fails to do it.
     
    48:37
    Alexander Svitov (Ak Bars) gets two minutes for hooking.
     
    47:13
    Yugra has already started to play careful and defensive hockey.
     
    42:49
    Goal for Yugra!

    Late in the powerplay Stephen Dixon makes a pass to the front of the net where JONAS ANDERSSON redirects the puck into the net, allowing Yugra to be on the lead for the first time tonight.
     
    41:01
    Two minutes for Alexei Tereshchenko (Ak Bars).
     
    40:55
    A brilliant pass by Sitnikov who finds Mikhail Zhukov alone in front of the net, but his shot goes wide.
     
    40:01
    Start of 3rd period.
     
    During the second period both goaltenders had more work than in the first period with teams being more successful at creating chances. Yugra was the superior team in second period, leading to a pretty goal scored by Vladimir Gorbunov early in the period. Despite playing on two consecutive powerplays late in the stanza, Ak Bars failed to return to the lead, thus the third period will decide the fate of the game.

    SOG: 8 (19) – 15 (24)
    PIM: 4 (6) – 12 (16)
    Commentary by

    Didzis Rudmanis

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 6. Savinainen (Andersson, Dixon), 26. Gorbunov, 43. Andersson (Dixon) – 2. Stapleton, 17. Faizullin (Obukhov), 53. Varnakov (Stapleton), 64. Svitov

    HC Yugra: Biryukov (Kuznetsov) – Peplyaev, Troncinsky, Shefer, Khvostov, Dyakov, Putilov, Starosta – Olonov, Gorbunov, Dixon, Skorokhodov, Sitnikov, Zhukov, Magogin, Yatsenko, Andersson, Yakubov, Knyazev, Savinainen, Gusev
    Ak Bars Kazan: Garipov (Yaroslavlev) – Nikulin, Zakharchuk, Korneyev, Heshka, Yarullin, Osipov, Panin, Medvedev – Stapleton, Svitov, Varnakov, Pesonen, Tereshchenko, Obukhov, Tkachyov, Burmistrov, Vincour, Lukoyanov, Petrov, Faizullin
    Referees: Nalivaiko, Ronn – Golyak, Dedyulya
    Attendance: 3100