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final
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
5:3 (0:1, 3:1, 2:1)
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
Wednesday 26.02.2014, 16:00 • Arena 2000 • KHL
     
    After a calm start of the game it became an eventful, enjoyable one with fast pace, many opportunities and a lot of goals. Lokomotiv could turn the game on their side from two goals deficit mostly with a succesful and effiient second period. Viewing this and the fact that they did not give up the match, this winning is absolutely deserved. Thanks for this three points Lokomotiv strengthened their eighth spot of the East and have 75 points, while Avtomobilist is still sixth of the Western Conference 83 points. Thank you for following our live coverage. Please, keep reading eurolives.com, cecause we are coming with more KHL matches! (18:29:07)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:59
    Goal for Lokomotiv!
    One more goal in the end of the game! Avtomobilist lost the puck, then Lokomotiv made a break and in the end of this Plotnikov passed to YEGOR AVERIN, who fired to the empty net from the blue line, 5-3! Assist: Sergei Plotnikov.
     
    59:28
    Home team timeout.
     
    59:28
    Simakov is called for tripping.
     
    59:04
    Empty net for Avtomobilist!
     
    58:38
    Simakov brought the puck from the right to the middle, fired and just missed the target!
     
    58:00
    Two minutes left.
     
    56:39
    Plotnikov crossed the slot and got to the left side and fired from short distance, but Kovar saved again!
     
    54:01
    Galimov's shot from long distance was denied by Kovar.
     
    52:39
    Lokomotiv tried to make a break, but Kovar skated out of his goal to the blue line and cleared!
     
    50:00
    Ten minutes to go.
     
    49:50
    Home team put their opponent under pressure now. Although Lokomotiv leads, but do not get back to the defending zone.
     
    49:29
    After a scramble in the middle in front of Kovar's net a defenseman could took the puck under possession.
     
    48:02
    Lepisto made a shot from long distance, but two defenders was in the way to the net and one of them blocked.
     
    47:00
    Redlihs escaped from his defender on the left, carried the puck down and fired toward the far corner, but Kovar managed to deflect it!
     
    45:18
    Goal for Lokomotiv!
    Home team took advantage of the powerplay soon! JONAS HOLOS got the puck on the left and fired from identical position than Vasilyev did, but with not the same result! He shot it just below the bar, 4-3! Assist: Staffan Kronwall, Sergei Plotnikov)
     
    45:13
    Gusev gets the third penalty of the game for slashing.
     
    44:21
    Vasilyev was uncovered on the left side and fired from long distance, but he hit only Kovar's chest.
     
    43:21
    Home team attempted to score a couple of times, but all of them was denied either by Kovar or the defense.
    Commentary by

    Salacz Bence

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 28. Konkov (Vasilyev, Petrov), 30. Galimov (Kartayev), 35. Platt (Sprukts), 46. Holos (Kronwall, Plotnikov), 60. Averin (Plotnikov) – 1. Simakov (Antonov), 23. Lewandowski (Gusev), 42. Viklund (Lepisto)

    Lokomotiv Yaroslavl: Sanford (Koleshnik) – Vishnevsky, Lyubushkin, Redlihs, Platt, Sprukts – Holos, Kronwall, Plotnikov, Averin, Apalkov – Vasilyev, Yakovlyev, Galimov, Kartayev, Konkov – Pashnin, Peretyagin, Musatov, Kapustin, Petrov
    Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg: Kovar (Lobanov) – Gusev, Tryamkin, Lewandowski, Develaux, Yemeleyev – Viklund, Lepisto, Lazarev, Vyglazov, Malykhin – Megalinsky, Antonov, Demagin, Fyodorov, Simakov – Zhuravlyov, Prostnikov, A. Streltsov, V. Streltsov, Arkalov
    Referees: Alexei Anisimov, Sergei Kulakov – Ivan Fateyev, Dmitry Sivov
    Attendance: 9000