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HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
3:5 (1:0, 1:3, 1:2)
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Thursday 16.01.2014, 16:00 • Neftekhimik Stadium • KHL
     
    It's Metallurg's day with a hard fought 5-3 victory over Neftekhimik! The hosts didn't give up right until the very end, but their opponents today had just too much for them. They even took they lead in the first period before in the final 40 minutes Metallurg's class told, but it was an thoroughly entertaining game. Thanks for following our KHL coverage today, until next time! (18:10:24)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:00
    We're now into the final minute of regulation time
     
    58:51
    Icing from the visitors again
     
    57:30
    Icing now from Metallurg
     
    57:24
    Neftekhimik are trying to press hard but the away defence is so far clearing their lines well
     
    55:05
    Mozyakin has a low attempt deflected and it goes out of play. If there is going to be another goal in this game it could change everything
     
    54:30
    Metallurg should have sealed the deal with those two goals but Neftekhimik just won't lie down, have they got time to make Metallurg even more nervous?
     
    53:12
    Goal for Neftekhimik! Scramble on the crease and Koshechkin just can't find where the puck is, TOMAS NETIK can though and he pokes home to make it 5-3! Assists- Pavel Kulikov and Dan Sexton
     
    51:15
    Goal for Metallurg! Just like in the second period they've scored two quick fire goals in a row! JAN KOVAR takes control of the puck on the crease and wrists it off the underside of the crossbar and in, 5-2!
     
    50:52
    Goal for Metallurg! The puck is sent back to the point where SERGEY TERESCHENKO is waiting and with a heavy slapshot into the roof of the net he makes it 4-2! Assists- Evgeniy Grigorenko
     
    50:08
    Polygalov! At first he ends up in the net with Koshechkin, and then his wrist shot from a promising position goes off target!
     
    49:32
    Neftekhimik are now once again at full strength
     
    49:18
    Great glove save by Matt Dalton! Mozyakin feeds the awating Danis Zaripov who rips it first time looking for the right hand corner but he's denied!
     
    47:47
    Tomas Netik skates away on a shorthanded breakaway, goes almost one on one with Kosheckhin but he's forced out wide and the shot in the end is a weak one!
     
    47:32
    Metallurg now have a powerplay for themselves, for tripping Yakimov is on his way to the penalty box
     
    45:48
    Long pass searching for the onrushing Evgeniy Timkin who would have been released one on one, but the pass is too strong and it's icing
     
    45:30
    Icing from Metallurg
     
    45:22
    Kosheckhin hasn't had much to do in this period yet, Neftekhimik are struggling to finish off their attacks with shots on goal
     
    43:11
    Platonov shields the puck well, from standing on almost one leg gets an attempt away and Dalton makes a solid pad save
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 7. Trunev (Mamashev, Taratukhin), 35. Yakimov (Trunev, Mamashev), 54. Netik (Kulikov, Sexton) – 23. Pare (Oskala), 24. Ibragimov (Kovar, Khabarov), 37. Mozyakin (Zaripov, Kovar), 51. Tereschenko (Grigorenko), 52. Kovar

    HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk: Sudnitsyn (Dalton)- Romanov, Kosmachyov, Sexton, Koukal, Netik- Berezin, Mamashev, Yakimov, Taratukhin, Trunev- Kurbatov, Shulakov, Alshevskiy, Khokhryakov, Kulikov- Mnikhovich, Mnatsyan, Rybin, Polygalov, Zdunov
    Metallurg Magnitogorsk: Koshechkin (Pechurskiy)- Antipin, Biryukov, Mozyakin, Kovar, Zaripov- Metlyuk, Tereschenko, Timkin, Kazionov, Pare- Ibragimov, Malenkykh, Potekhin, Brent, Platonov- Grigorenko, Khabarov, Osala, Malinovskiy, Kamenev
    Referees: Zakharov, Komarov, Maytak, Pronskyh
    Attendance: 4500