They gave up a late goal to lose the chance at 3 points, but they get the win in overtime to collect 2 big points in the tight Western Conference. As for Yekaterinburg, they got 2 goals from Sergei Demagin and a big performance in goal from Jakub Kovar in his home country, but this loss ends their seven-game winning streak. (21:22:30)

Another chance for Klepis, one-time slapper along the ice, stick save Kovar.

Another save Kovar, and then the puck is iced.

Sami Lepisto stickhandling dangerously in the Lev zone before getting stripped of the puck. He missed a good chunk of the 3rd period serving a 2+10.

Sekac with the shot high off the glass.

Maenpaa to Klepis, who tries to beat Kovar with a backhander to the short side but no room. Faceoff in the Avto zone.

Klepis going for the win, but Kovar catches his wrister. The Avto goalie has been the most prominent player this game so far.

Icing Lev.

Demagin tries to shoot, I think O'Byrne got a stick on it to deflect it high. Play contiues in the Lev zone.

Avto shoot-in attempt goes around the glass but goes up high and into the netting. Faceoff at centre ice.

Repik centres to Nemec, who fans on the one-time slap attempt.

The ever-dangerous Martin Thornberg led another rush and took a tricky shot up high that Kovar juggles but keeps out.

Oystrick to Klepis, the backhander and a glove save by Kovar, who holds on.

Shot by Klepis, Kovar gets a glove on it and knocks it to the corner.

Avto back at full strength, Demagin tries to find Yemeleyev streaking to the net but he can't handle the pass.

Oystrick shoots, blocked by Demagin, he gets it back and shoots high, blocker save Kovar in the dying seconds of the penalty

Thornberg carries it wide, centres to Zackrisson and he fires it just wide.

Offside Lev with :57 left in the power play.

Another big blast from the point by Martin Sevc but this time Kovar saw it all the way and had no problem handling it. 1:22 left in the Lev power play.

Sevc shoots from the point, I think it was tipped in front by either Azevedo or Klepis, but Kovar stops and covers with 1:39 left in the penalty.

And finally Kovar covers the puck and stops play under pressure.

Sevc again from the point through a crowd, hits Kovar, who was down. Play continues in the Avto zone.

Back the other way, Jakub Kovar makes a glove save on Martin Sevc's long shot and holds on for a faceoff.

O'Byrne ties up Chernov behind the net, the latter yapping at the ref for a penalty but play continues.

Vasily Streltsov spins around and fires in the Lev zone, hits Vehanen up high, then Golyshev shoots wide.

Cingel with a shot from the boards, kicked out by Kovar.

Puck shot right on Vehanen off the draw, he catches it so we'll do it again.

Icing Lev.

Long wrister from Simakov along the ice, pad save Vehanen.

Lev back at full strength, puck deep in the Avto zone.

Oystrick the slapper from the point, blocker save Kovar.

The puck hits a stick in the neutral zone and goes into the air and is caught by Petri Vehanen when it comes down.

Thornberg circles the net with the puck and finds Jiri Sekac in front, but he misfires and the puck slides wide.

Shot by Demagin from a sharp angle, stick save Vehanen.

High wrister by Viklund, hits Vehanen in the shoulder and holds on.

Long shoot-in by Ridderwall, Kovar catches and holds it.

Icing Lev.

Pass to Yemelin in front but his shot is deflected out of play, faceoff in the Lev zone.

Puck deflected out of play in the Lev zone, faceoff outside.

Fyodor Malakhin with a burst of speed through the neutral zone but makes an ill-advised pass after he crosses the Lev blueline and it's intercepted.

Another shot from Thornberg, this one a hard wrister from the boards but Kovar makes a glove save and hangs on.

Thornberg with a wrister from the left wing, kicked out by Kovar.

Offside Avtomobilist.

Ondrej Nemec attempts a shot from the point but it hits a leg in front. Finally Lev is called for a hand pass in the attacking zone, faceoff outside.

Icing Lev.

Fyodor Malykhin stickhandling down low for Avto, tries to sneak it short side on Vehanen but no room, play continues.

Now Cingel with a shot, Kovar another save and he covers this one.

Mikus with a wrister along the ice, stick save Kovar.

Lev ices and that should do it for the penalty.

Tobias Viklund with a big slapper from the point, hits Vehanen in the chest, 1:05 left in the penalty.

Avto with some pressure late in the period, Malykhin handles the puck and attempts a shot, not sure if it got through, but Golyshev's shot is turned aside by Vehanen.

Oystrick rips a one-time pass from Klepis just wide.

Shot by Juraj Mikus, stick save Kovar.

Avto back at full strength, play still in their zone though.

The puck is iced by Avto right on Petri Vehanen, and we'll see if that's registered as Avtomobilist's first shot of the game. Lev starts back with about :30 left in the PP.

The puck deflects into the netting in the Avto zone and the referee indicates a faceoff outside with 1:06 to go in the penalty.

Puck comes just outside the line, offside Lev with 1:30 left in the power play.

Zackrisson to Thornberg, shoots just wide.

Jakub Klepis leads a Lev rush, his shot is deflected out of play, faceoff in the Avto zone.

Offside Lev as Pacovsky was trapped deep and didn't know the puck came out. The Avto bench is motioning for intentional offside but the puck is staying at the Avto blueline, which is the correct call.

Offside Lev.

Now we get a pile-up in the Avto crease with the Birner-Vrana-Repik line forechecking hard as usual but Kovar keeps it out. Faceoff inside.

A sloppy Lev change and the Avto bench is hollarish for a too-many-men call but play continues.

Icing Avtomobilist.

Pacovsky shows a burst of speed with the puck but ex-Lev defenceman Sami Lepisto sits him down with a bone-rattling open-ice hit. Welcome to the KHL.

The puck deflects into the Avtomobilist bench. Faceoff outside the line.

The play ends with a shot from Petr Vrana and another save by Kovar who covers. The fans give the players a hand as they change up after an exciting sequence.

The puck comes out front to Dominik Pacovsky, who tries to go upstairs but fires high and over the glass. Faceoff outside. Pacovsky playing in his first home game in a building he's well familiar with after moving over from Sparta Praha of the Czech Extraliga.

Thornberg attemps a shot from a sharp angle, hits the side of the net.

Avto called for offside again, as the puck came out and back in.

Offside Avtomobilist for the game's first whistle. A cautious start to this game with not a lot of pressure.

Another attempt from Jaakola, this one a wrister right on Kovar, which he directs to the corner.

Vasily Streltsov rips a slapper high and wide from the point. Still looking for the first stoppage.

Topi Jaakola attemps a shot from the point for Lev but it's blocked in front and the puck is cleared from the zone.

Avto with pressure in the Lev zone, Dmitri Megalinsky rips a slapper from the point wide.

The national anthems of the Russian Federation and the Czech Republic are complete, and the opening faceoff is moments away.

Lev Praha is wearing their home red uniforms with blue and white trim, red NY Rangers-style pants and red helmets. Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg is wearing road white with black and red trim, red pants and white helmets.

Starting lineups:

Lev Praha: Vehanen (Lukáš) – Ševc, Maenpaa, Jaakola, O'Byrne, Oystrick, Němec, Mikus, Humphries – Novotný, Azevedo, Klepiš – Birner, Vrána, Řepík – Sekáč, Zackrisson, Thornberg – Ridderwall, Cingel, Pacovský

Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg: Kovář (Farafanov) – Gusev, Tryamkin, Viklund, Lepistö, Megalinsky, Antonov, Postnikov, Yegin – Krikunov, Lewandowski, Stewart – Chernov, Malykin, Lazarev – Demagin, Yemeleyev, Simakov – Golyshev, Streltsov, Deveaux

Referees: Bondar, Olenin – Zakharenkov, Pavlov.

Last season was an utter disaster for Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg. They won only 8 of 52 games and finished dead last in the KHL with 35 points. Lev won both meetings against them during the season -- first a 5-3 win in the city on the Euro-Asian border on October 1, then a 1-0 shutout win in Prague on January 6, a game that was overshadowed by the end of the NHL lockout the same day.

Things didn´t start much better this season, as they won only 4 of their first 15 games, but they´ve sure turned things around since then, and Avtomobilist motors into Prague on a seven-game winning streak. They currently sit 6th in the Western Conference with 36 points in 25 games.

"The beginning of the season was not so great, but over time we started to improve a lot," says Sami Lepistö, a player well-familiar to Lev fans. Last season, the Finnish blueliner recorded 5 points in 14 games as a Lion. So far this year, he has 12 points in 24 games to lead all Avtomobilist defencemen.

As for Lev, they got off to a great start this season, then leveled off after a sudden coaching change. With a week to practice under new bench boss Kari Jalonen, though, the team seems ready to charge out of the gate following the break.

"Gradually we began to change our game before the break," said defenceman Ondřej Němec. "The coach started to implement his system on our team before, and now we have had a lot of time to work on it. I think the last game in Atlant showed that it works."

Welcome. This game starts at 19:00 CET local time in Prague, 24:00 YEKT in Yekaterinburg, 13:00 EST.