PET 4:5 OMS | SKA St. Petersburg - Avangard Omsk (KHL)

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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

	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.
	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!
	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.
	47:45	Sergei Kalinin (Avangard) gets two minutes for hooking.
	46:09	Goal for SKA! Ilya Kablukov with a nice deke to the right against guest goalie Andrei Mezin but from a very sharp angle he doesn't get the following shot on target but the puck stays inside the goalie crease from where ALEXEI PONIKAROVSKY scores into the wide open net after being faster than the last defender! 3-3!!! Assisted by Ilya Kablukov and Andrei Sigaryov.
	41:48	Goal for SKA! Again a goal comes very early! VIKTOR TIKHONOV receives a perfectly timed long pass at the Avangard blue line, has a break away and dekes out Alexander Salak in the 1-on-1 situation to the right to score into the wide open net – SKA make it 2-3! Assisted by Igor Makarov and Alexei Semenov.
	35:36	Two minute penalty against SKA for having too many players on the ice. The match continues with a 4 on 3 power play for Avangard.
	34:21	After a 2 on 1 situation the guests almost decide the match but they only hit the back of Salak from short distance and the puck then is deflected wide!
	33:45	Sergey Kostitsyn (Avangard) gets two minutes for tripping and Alexander Kucheryavenko (SKA) gets two minutes for diving. We'll see a long 4 on 4!
	25:48	Igor Makarov (SKA) gets two minutes for slashing and there will be a short 5 on 3 for Avangard!
	24:33	Alexei Semenov (SKA) gets two minutes for cross-checking.
	22:41	Goal for Avangard! The guests didn't look shockd at all and already answer with the 3-1! A one-timer by Kirill Lyamin from the blue line is deflected into the net by the skates of SKA defender Kevin Dallman past the chanceless Alexander Salak after ROMAN BERDNIKOV gave the shot another direction with his stick! Assisted by Kirill Lyamin and Andrei Ivanov.
	20:13	Goal for SKA! The middle period starts just as the first one did but with the goal on the other side this time! ROMAN CERVENKA receives a brilliant pass form behind the net and beats guest goalie Andrei Mezin from short distance to cut the defeicit to the half in power play – SKA had started with a man more on the ice due to the penalty against Kalinin late in the previous period! Assisted by Tony Martensson and Patrick Thoresen.
	19:20	Sergei Kalinin (Avangard) gets two minutes for hooking. It's the second power play of the game and again it goes to SKA.
	18:02	Huge break away opportunity for SKA but in the 1-on-1 Mezin stays the winner!
	17:19	Goal for Avangard! SERGEY KALININ revceives a brilliant cross-pass just in front of the net after Sergei Kostitsyn waited long at the right circle and through two defenders he finds the hole to make it 2-0 for Avangard!!! Assisted by Sergei Kostitsyn and Miroslav Blatak.
	12:43	Stefan Ruzicka (Avangard) gets two minutes. It's the first power play of the game and it goes to SKA.
	08:28	Huge 2-on-1 counter attack by the guests from Omsk and Alexander Salak just deflects a shot from the left circle over the crossbar!
	00:19	Goal for Avangard! What a crazy begin in St. Petersburg! Just 19 seconds are played and SERGEI KOSTITSYN beats SKA goalie Alexander Salak from short distance after a rush with a one-timer from the right circle! Assisted by Dmitry Syomin and Alexander Popov.

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

1st period
	00:19
	12:43
	17:19
	19:20
1st intermission
2nd period
	20:13
	22:41
	24:33
	25:48
	33:45
	35:36
2nd intermission
3rd period
	41:48
	46:09
	47:45
	55:55
	59:45
After 3rd period
Overtime
	62:10
Final/OT