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SKA St. Petersburg
5:0 (0:0, 0:0, 5:0)
Lev Praha
Wednesday 30.10.2013, 16:30 • KHL
     
    It's not likely that anyone who watched the first period would have expected a third period like that, although when speaking about SKA it's never totally unexpected. We had a 0-0 tie through 40 minutes with Lev holding a 26-21 edge in shots. You could see SKA coming on a bit late in the second, though, and they absolutely exploded for 5 goals in the third period. (18:49:20)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:36
    Alexei Ponikarovsky has picked up a penalty for high sticking, not that it matters at this point.
     
    59:08
    Goal for SKA!
    When it rains, it pours. The roof has caved in for Lev, as IGOR MAKAROV scores SKA's 5th goal of this 3rd period, batting a rebound out of the air with a baseball bat swing and in. They're checking to see if it was a high stick, but I'm sure it's a goal. Assist: Andrei Sigaryov.
     
    58:30
    Goal for SKA!
    Another SKA power play goal as Kovalchuk centres for VADIM SHIPACHYOV, whose one-timer beats Engren under the arm. Assist: Ilya Kovalchuk.
     
    58:05
    Kalinin tries the backdoor play again with the slapper just wide but nobody there to tip it in behind Engren.
     
    56:50
    Another Lev penalty on the play, as Patrik Zackrisson is in the box now for slashing.
     
    56:49
    SKA called for icing again. It seems they're content to kill off the clock.
     
    56:40
    Icing SKA.
     
    56:23
    Slapper from Jakub Klepis hits Alexander Salak, who holds on with just a few seconds left in the penalty.
     
    54:25
    Another penalty to Lev as Marc-Andre Gragnani goes off for tripping. The dangerous SKA power play goes back to work.
     
    52:55
    Goal for SKA!
    It's starting to become a route now, as just after killing off a 5-on-3, SKA has made it 3-0. ROMAN CERVENKA's shot hits the stick of a Lev defenceman and beats Engren, who was perfectly screened by Kovalchuk and could see nothing at all. Assists: Vadim Shipachyov, Ilya Kovalchuk.
     
    52:36
    SKA clearing attempt goes into their bench just as they get back to full strength.
     
    52:00
    Thornberg trying to set things up in the zone, he dishes a couple of passes but neither result in a shot on goal, and then SKA ices to all but kill the first penalty.
     
    51:40
    Sevc with the wrister from the point, glove save Salak with :39 left in the first SKA penalty.
     
    50:36
    It's now a 5-on-3 Lev power play for 1:38 as just off a faceoff Alexander Kucheryavenko's stick came up and clipped Azevedo.
     
    50:19
    Lev is going to go to the power play now as Patrick Thoresen put the clutches on Gragnani in the attacking zone and gets called for holding. Lev's been back on their heels this period but it's imperative they get some offence going now.
     
    50:21
    Offside Lev.
     
    48:31
    Goal for SKA!
    An unfortunate break for Lev as ANDREI SIGARYOV drove to the net with the puck and just as he's hammered by Ryan O'Byrne, the puck hits Engren and slides into the net. Assist: Yevgeni Skachkov.
     
    48:20
    SKA to the attack again, wrister from Sygarov is caught and held by Engren.
    Commentary by

    Derek OBrien

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    Jon Rowson

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    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 45. Tikhonov (Kalinin, Kovalchuk), 49. Sigaryov (Skachkov), 53. Cervenka (Shipachyov, Kovalchuk), 59. Shipachyov (Kovalchuk), 60. Makarov (Sigaryov)

    SKA St. Petersburg: Salák – Ryasensky, Alexandrov, Kalinin, Kuteykin, Semyonov, Chudinov, Yudin – Martensson, Tikhonov, Thoresen – Kovalchuk, Červenka, Shipachyov – Ponikarovsky, Kucheryavenko, Panarin – Makarov, Sigarev, Skachkov.
    Lev Praha: Engren – Ševc, Nakládal, Jaakola, O'Byrne, Gragnani, Neměc, Maenpaa, Humphries – Novotný, Klepiš, Ridderwall – Birner, Vrána, Řepík – Azevedo, Sekáč, Thornberg – Kubalík, Zackrisson, Cingel.
    Referees: Anisimov, Buturlin – Golovlyov, Shikhanov