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HC Yugra
1:4 (1:2, 0:1, 0:1)
Medvescak Zagreb
Saturday 18.01.2014, 12:00 • Arena Yugra, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia • KHL
     
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    Shots on goal: YUG 11 (43), MED 10 (26)
    Faceoffs: YUG 5 (21), MED 7 (37)
    Penalties: YUG 0 (6), MED 4 (14)
    Powerplay: YUG 1/7, MED 0/3
    Ice leaders:
    YUG – Tomas Starosta – 21:31
    MED – Mark Popovic – 25:15.
     
    After being pretty much sterile offensively in the first, but still scoring twice, Medvescak double it through the second and the third frame, take the 3 points and still crawl to secure their spot in the playoffs. Yugra played the first period and scored in a 5-on-3 powerplay, but other than that, they were clearly trailing to Medvescak.
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:39
    The game is over, the play has calmed as both teams realize there's nothing to be done.
     
    58:22
    Sitnikov feeds from behind the goal to the middle, though the shot from the slot only gets to Brust who denies it and keeps the net clean.
     
    58:00
    Two minutes left in the third period.
     
    57:02
    Popovic getting the puck inside the zone over the right, circles and gets the backward pass to the left circle, the shot comes out wide to the right.
     
    56:16
    Cheechoo fires from the right edge of the slot, Kuznetsov catches it and plays the puck to the left.
     
    54:45
    Goal for Medvescak Zagreb!
    After Brust deflected a shot from the slot, Medvescak won the battle at the boards for the puck, sent it down the ice and it was RYAN VESCE who took the puck just outside the slot to the left, went to the left edge and on the net, deking the goalie out and fliping it high just beneath the bar.

    Assists: Matt Ellison, Mark Popovic.
     
    54:08
    Medvescak back to full strength.
     
    53:52
    Nothing significant on the powerplay by Yugra, they can't organize or produce.
     
    52:08
    Slashing call against Medvescak, Jonathan Cheechoo (MED) now called for cooling.
     
    51:22
    Bulyansky by the endboards, circles the net with O'Connor covering him. In the end a shot from the right gets deflected by Brust and the rebound picked up by the goalie.
     
    50:28
    Yugra control the puck lately but Medvescak keep them at safe distance, no real offense coming from them.
     
    48:54
    It was Foster on the right shooting or feeding, but whichever it was, the defense cleared the zone. Medvescak looking good and solid this far into the period.
     
    48:19
    Ryan O'Connor taking a shot from the blue on the right, Kuznetsov makes the save with his glove as the puck was headed to the right post, glove side and closer angle.
     
    47:39
    Glumac in the other end firing after having deked out a defenceman, but the shot is deflected into the netting from the left edge of the crease.
     
    47:11
    Not the first time Yugra get a free offense as Medvescak commit a mistake in transition, though this time they corrected the fault quick enough.
     
    46:22
    Foster is back, Medvescak with five players.
    Commentary by

    Alan Ilijic

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 5. Kruchinin (Gusev, Magogin) – 8. Ryan (Klubertanz, Brust), 15. Thomas (Murley), 37. Glumac (Nystrom), 55. Vesce (Ellison, Popovic)

    HC Yugra: Kuznetsov (Kukin) – Dixon, Bulyansky, Melart, Smolenak, Starosta – Sokolov, Sitnikov, Khvostov, Zhukov, Knyazev – Dyakov, Magogin, Kruchinin, Shvidenko, Gusev – Tyulyapkin, Plotnikov, Lesnukhin, Yatsenko, Putilov
    Medvescak Zagreb: Brust (Dekanich) – Popovic, Thomas, Cheechoo, Murley, Martinovic – Linglet, Svarny, Vesce, Foster, Ellison – Klubertanz, Glumac, Ryan, Letang, Iggulden – O'Connor, Nystrom, Walker, Murray, Bjorkstrand
    Referees: Nalivaiko, Romasko – Putilin, Raming
    Attendance: 4050