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final
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
4:6 (2:3, 1:2, 1:1)
Ak Bars Kazan
Wednesday 25.12.2013, 16:00 • Nagorny concert and entertainment complex, Nizhny Novgorod • KHL
     
    57:32
    Goal for Torpedo!
    Wolski brought the puck through behind the net making two defensemen to pay attention on him, thus PAVEL LUKIN was left uncovered got the pass by Wolski and fired into the left side of the net, 4-6! Assist: Wojtek Wolski.
     
    47:46
    Goal for AK Bars!
    Stapleton was carrying the puck behind the net to the left, where he put the puck to MIKHAIL VARNAKOV and he skated in front of the net and fired to the bottom left corner, 3-6! Assist: Tim Stapleton.
     
    25:03
    Goal for Torpedo!
    Unbelievable! One more goal, now for the home team! MIKHAIL GRIGORYEV passed the puck in the slot, but no one touched it, thus it slid into the net under Barulin, 3-5! It was the Ak Bars goalie's foul, he could had denied it by an easy save. Assist: Maxim Potapov.
     
    24:29
    Goal for AK Bars!
    Vincour collected the puck on the left side and carried it to the other side behind the net, then suddenly made a perfect pass to SHAUN HESHKA, who's screen shot went into the net from the bottom of the right circle! Assist: Tomas Vincour.
     
    21:34
    Goal for AK Bars!
    After a face-off in the right circle a shot was coming to the middle, where Medvedev took the puck under control and swept it to the uncovered TIM STAPLETON, who had no problem to pass it to the half empty net, 2-4! Assist: Evgeny Medvedev.
     
    19:48
    Goal for AK Bars!
    Varnakov fired from the blue line, in the slot Burmistrov touched the puck and it went wide, but TIM STAPLETON got there from behind the net and scooped it in to the emtpy the, 2-3! Assist: Alexander Burmistrov, Pavel Varnakov
     
    13:16
    Goal for Torpedo!
    What a crazy match it is, Torpedo equalized again! Kulyomin made a drop pass to VLADIMIR GALUZIN, who did not wait for shooting immediately and the puck went to the left side of the net, 2-2! Assist: Vyacheslav Kulyomin, Mikhail Grigoryev.
     
    10:08
    Goal for AK Bars!
    Ak Bars was coming down in 3-on-2 and took advantage of this! Varnakov sent a centering pass inside to ILYA NIKULIN, who made a one-timer shot there and it went into the net, 1-2! Assist: Mikhail Varnakov, Alexander Burmistrov
     
    09:31
    Goal for Torpedo!
    Here is the equalizer! Torpedo was coming forward in advantage, then Grigoryev delivered the puck to WOJTEK WOLSKI, who deceived Barulin and fired to the half empty net, 2-2!
     
    01:45
    Goal for AK Bars!
    After an attack on the right side DMITRY OBUKHOV got the puck and behind teh circle and immediately fired from long distance, the puck found its way to the bottom left corner, 0-1! Assist: Alexander Svitov.

    Salacz Bence

    Goals and assists: 10. Wolski (Grigoryev, Denisov), 14. Galuzin (Kulyomin, Grigoryev), 26. Grigoryev (Potapov), 58. Lukin (Wolski) – 2. Obukhov (Svitov), 11. Nikulin (Varnakov, Burmistrov), 20. Stapleton (Burmistrov, Varnakov), 22. Stapleton (Medvedev), 25. Heshka (Vincour), 48. Varnakov (Stapleton)


    Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod: Koval (Mashkovtsev) – Hietanen, Bernatsky, Galuzin, Krasnoslobodsev, Kulyomin – Valetenko, Lukin, Parshin, Salminen, Immonen – Grigoryev, Denisov, Wolski, Badyukov, Sentyurin – Belokhvostikov, Zharkov, Maxim Potapov, Tverdokhlebov, Alexei Potapov
    Ak Bars Kazan: Barulin (Garipov) – Nikulin, Korneyev, Tereshchenko, Vincour, Petrov – Heshka, Medvedev, Stapleton, Varnakov, Burmistrov – Zakharchuk, Panin, Svitov, Pesonen, Obukhov – Bodrov, Svechnikov, Tkachyov, Lukoyanov, Faizulin

    Referees: Vyacheslav Bulanov, Sergei Kulakov – Konstantin Chubykin, Roman, Shikhanov

    Attendance: 5500