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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
     
    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
     
    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!
     
    47:32
    Metallurg now have a powerplay for themselves, for tripping Yakimov is on his way to the penalty box
     
    Right at the end of the second period Denis Platonov for checking was handed a two minute minor, so Neftekhimik will start the third period on the powerplay
     
    37:50
    Neftekhimik have now decided to swap their goalkeepers, Matt Dalton has taken the place of Alexander Sudnitsyn
     
    36:16
    Goal for Metallurg! Perfect response from the visitors! SERGEY MOZYAKIN sees the far post open from the right flank and he sends it under Sudnitsyn and into the corner, 3-2! Assists- Danis Zaripov and Jan Kovar
     
    34:26
    Goal for Neftekhimik! BOGDAN YAKIMOV gobbles up a loose puck after a slapshot was blocked and one times it past Kosheckhin, powerplay goal and it's a tied game at 2-2! Assists- Maxim Trunev and Renat Mamashev
     
    32:58
    Vladislav Kamenev breaks towards the left hand post where his drive is stopped by Sudnitsyn. Tim Brent in the aftermath landed a clean punch on a Neftekhimik defender however, and he's been sent to the penalty box
     
    30:28
    Powerplay time for Metallurg now. For holding Kulikov has been penalised
     
    26:37
    Vladimir Malinovskiy for tripping has given Neftekhimik a powerplay opportunity for two minutes
     
    23:51
    Goal for Metallurg! This game has changed dramatically within a few seconds! RENAT IBRAGIMOV with an unstoppable slapshot form the point goes top shelf and it's already 2-1! Assists- Jan Kovar and Yaroslav Khabarov
     
    23:00
    Goal for Metallurg! Oscar Oskala makes a simply outstanding pass with the backhand behind the net and FRANCIS PARE is on the crease to put the puck home, beautiful goal and it'a 1-1! Assists- Oscar Oskala
     
    06:37
    Goal for Neftekhimik! MAXIM TRUNEV with a great move flips the puck between two defenders and with a hard wrist shot beats Koshechkin at his right post, powerplay goal and it's 1-0! Assists- Renat Mamashev and Andrey Taratukhin
     
    05:40
    Yet another penalty against Metallurg already, Yaroslav Khabarov for high sticking has been called
     
    03:51
    We have the first penalty of the game, Jan Kovar for holding has put Neftekhimik on the powerplay
    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