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final
HC Donbass Donetsk
2:5 (1:2, 0:1, 1:2)
Medvescak Zagreb
Friday 11.10.2013, 18:00 • Druzhba Palace of Sports • KHL
     
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    Today's game shows how a wrong impression of the game you can get from looking at plain stats. Donbass outshot their opponent 40-28, conceded on five occasions and scored only twice.
     
    Shots on goal: DON 15 (40), MED 13 (28)
    Faceoffs: DON 9 (31), MED 7 (24)
    Penalties: DON 0 (6), MED 2 (10)
    Powerplay: DON 1/5, MED 2/3
    Ice leaders:
    DON – Maxim Yakutsenya – 22:18
    MED – Matthieu Carle – 27:18.
     
    Medvescak takes 8th in a row, beats Donbass 5:2 in Donetsk and takes a leap over them in the standings. Fantastic display lately by the Zagreb side, and if they can keep it up, they will make everyone work extremely hard to beat them.
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:08
    Ivan Svarny (MED) gets called for interference, but that doesn't matter anymore as the game is over.
     
    58:30
    Goal for Medvescak Zagreb!
    Empty netter to seal the deal! Moments after Leighton left for the bench, BILL THOMAS strikes from the left board and beats Clay Wilson who tried to deflect the shot for the final word today.

    Unassisted.
     
    58:00
    Two minutes to go.
     
    57:34
    Cheechoo gets the feed to Thomas on the right side whose one-timer is somehow deflected to the left side and wide.
     
    56:06
    The defense keeps the game in favour of Medvescak as Donbass get on the offense, Brust is beaten by a pass back to the slot from the left, and one-timer taken for the empty net, the defense is able to deflect it.
     
    55:26
    Donbass get on the offense trying to feed to the slot, but can't find a precise shot to beat Brust, who is doing great lately.
     
    54:51
    Cheechoo takes a shot from the right coming towards the net, gets hit from the back legally and we have a scramble that is brought to the end by the whistle, faceoff in Donbass' zone.
     
    54:03
    Donbass try to open up and get down the ice for an offense, while Medvescak have five minutes to hold and get the 8th in the row.
     
    Today's attendance is 4003.
     
    52:48
    As Brust makes another big save, Medvescak go on the breakaway, but in the dying moments they're denied with a stick deflection from the defense.
     
    51:10
    Goal for Medvescak Zagreb!
    Medvescak take a slight initiative and immediately score. ANDREW MURRAY was the luckiest to touch the puck before it went past the goal line from the scramble before Leighton. Bjorsktrand took it from behind the net to the right, fired a shot, deflected by Leighton, but then Murray skates right on it.

    Assist: Patrick Bjorkstrand.
     
    50:45
    Ivan Svarny took a shot from outside reaching the blue, it's over the glass into the netting off a defenseman's stick.
     
    49:59
    Bill Thomas gets the puck to Jonathan Cheechoo who is captaining today and he fires a wrister as he gets across the blue on the left, easy job for Leighton who makes a chest save.
     
    48:56
    Goal for Donbass!
    Just as I say it, Donbass score. PETTERI WIRTANEN gets the puck onskating towards the net from the right boards and as he reaches the post a feed is sent, he only had to tip it a bit and get Donbass into a more comfortable situation.

    Assist: Vaclav Nedorost.
     
    48:08
    Medvescak give out the feeling like they're waiting for the game to finish, getting completely dominated by the home side.
    Commentary by

    Alan Ilijic

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 19. Laine (Piganovich, Kaspar), 49. Wirtanen (Nedorost) – 11. Bjorkstrand, 14. Thomas (Foster, Murley), 28. Ryan (Vesce), 52. Murray (Bjorkstrand.), 59. Thomas

    HC Donbass Donetsk: Leighton (Dyatlov) – Wilson, Nedorost, Yakutsenya, Podhradsky, Dadonov – Bartulis, Wirtannen, Fedotenko, Piganovich, Laine – Robitaille, Kaspar, Kolar, Razin, Toryanik, Silnitsky, Belukhin, Varlamov, Morozov
    Medvescak Zagreb: Brust (Vasiljevic) – Thomas, Cheechoo, Murley, Martinovic, Carle – Svarny, Vesce, Ryan, Foster, Ellison – Murray, Pikkarainen, Bjorkstrand, Kostovic, Katic – Glumac, Koren, Kane, Perkovich
    Referees: Bulanov, Rogachyov – Zakharenkov, Sivov
    Attendance: 4003