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final/OT
SKA St. Petersburg
4:5 (0:2, 1:1, 3:1 - 0:1)
Avangard Omsk
Wednesday 26.02.2014, 16:30 • KHL
     
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    Avangard wins the extra point after they let escape the win in regulation with just 15 seconds left to go. If we look at the full 62 minutes of play it's a lucky but far from undeserved win! In the end these two points might be not enough though in their playoff fight as the team from Omsk still lays 5 points behind 8th in the East Traktor Chelyabinsk.

    Shots on goal: SKA 2 (27) – Avangard 2 (25)
     
    Game over.
     
    62:10
    Goal for Avangard!


    The guests score the 5-4 and win the match in overtime! Stefan Ruzicka found team mate SERGEI SHIROKOV with a pass from behind the net who finnished the job from short distance!

    Assisted by Miroslav Blatak and Stefan Ruzicka.
     
    62:00
    The guests wait behind their own net, try to calm the game down a bit.
     
    61:28
    Ketov with a back hander from just right to the Avangard net but Mezin stops the puck easily.
     
    61:11
    A one-timer from the blue line by the guests goes wide signifitcantly.
     
    60:01
    Overtime began.
     
    SKA played with a lot of heart and tied the match early in the third period for a 3-3. Still Avangard managed to get the lead back with 4 minutes left to play in one of their few attacks before Thoresen sent the game into overtime with 15 seconds left on the clock and the goalie already pulled out for an additional attacker!

    Shots on goal: SKA 12 (25) – Avangard 5 (23)
     
    60:00
    3rd period finished.
     
    59:45
    Goal for SKA!


    The SKA forwards cause a lot of trouble in front of the Avangard net and PATRICK THORESEN is able to deflect a perfectly timed pass from the right into the net from short distance after escaping from his guard – 4-4!!!!!

    Assisted by Roman Cervenka and Tony Martensson.
     
    59:16
    SKA goalie Alexander Salak stays on the bench for an additional skater. SKA goes all or nothing!
     
    59:16
    Timeout taken by Avangard!
     
    58:32
    Avangard's Kulyash with heavy gestures towards the referees, wants a penalty for SKA and for a moment pays no attention to his opponent Ketov who escapes from the guard but in the end he is able to check him into the boards behind the Avangard net.
     
    57:19
    Alexander Kucheryavenko conquers the puck behind the Avangard net, gives it to Viktor Tikhonov and he finds Dmitry Kalinin close to the left circle but from short distance he then only hits the chest of Andrei Mezin in the net!!!!! Almost the equalizer for SKA!
     
    55:55
    Goal for Avangard!


    ALEXANDER PEREZHOGIN gives Avangard back the lead in this match! He first hit the chest of Salak with a shot from the blue line and then fired into the net his own rebound from short distance! 4-3 for the guests with less than five minutes to play!

    Assisted by Miroslav Blatak.
     
    54:52
    A blue line shot by Avangard's Stefan Ruzicka lacks power behind and Salak has little trouble to make a pad save to the side.
     
    54:00
    SKA are having everything under their controll in this period but it's still "only" a 3-3 on the video screen!
     
    51:57
    Evgeny Ketov receives a cross-pass just in front of the net but fails to get a shot on goal from an excellent scoring position.
     
    49:45
    The guests are back at full strength and they can be lucky that this is the case. SKA had several decent shots on goal!
    Commentary by

    Dennis Mende

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 21. Cervenka (Martensson, Thoresen), 42. Tikhonov (Makarov, Semenov), 47. Ponikarovsky (Kablukov, Sigaryov), 60. Thoresen (Cervenka, Martensson) – 1. Kostitsyn (Syomin, Popov), 18. Kalinin (Kostitsyn, Blatak), 23. Berdnikov (Lyamin, Ivanov), 56. Perezhogin (Blatak), 63. Shirokov (Blatak, Ruzicka)

    SKA St. Petersburg: Salak (Ezhov) – Alexandrov, Dallman, Kalinin, Chudinov, Khafizullin, Semenov – Martensson, Thoresen, Cervenka, Tikhonov, Ketov, Shipachyov, Kucheryavenko, Makarov, Burdasov, Ponikarovsky, Kablukov, Sigaryov
    Avangard Omsk: Mezin (Karlsson) – Kulyash, Pivtsakin, Nurislamov, Blatak, Lyamin, Goncharov, Poleshchuk – Popov, Syomin, Kostitsyn, Kuryanov, Shirokov, Perezhogin, Ruzicka, Kalinin, Kazionov, Rasskazov, Makhanovsky, Berdnikov, Ivanov
    Referees: Zakharov, Kadyrov – Gordenko, Tomilov