Maenpaa from the point, pad save Leighton.

Puck centred for Martin Thornberg in the high slot, high shot sails over the end glass, faceoff outside.

Wrister from Azevedo, stopped and held by Leighton.

Icing Lev.

Donbass rush, wrister from Teemu Laine, caught and held by Vehanen.

Nathan Oystrick the wrister from the point, right on Leighton.

The teams are back on the ice and period number 7 is coming up. Lucky number 7 for one of these teams?

We've played six periods, two full hockey games, but we don't have a winner yet. I'm hungry and I'm tired, so just imagine these poor players! Both these teams get the day off tomorrow before the series resumes on Sunday and Monday in Bratislava.

Quality scoring chances: Lev 4 (18), Donbass 2 (14).

4th overtime period begins at 23:59 CET (!) 18:59 EDT.

Repik the high wrister from the point, blocked in front.

Puck worked to Martin Sevc, he shoots from the top of the circle but it's right on Michael Leighton, who makes another save and holds on.

Icing Donbass.

Offside Lev, as they won the draw but the puck came just outside the line and back in.

Play down low in the Donbass zone, Birner tried a shot from near the goal line but Leighton covers it.

Finally Vehanen covers, and he gets a big ovation from what's left of this crowd.

Novotny drops for Azevedo, the slapper and a blocker save by Leighton.

Offside Lev on the shoot-in, faceoff at centre ice.

Puck deflected out of play in the Donbass zone, faceoff inside.

Martin Sevc buzzing down low, tried to pick the near low corner but denied by Leighton.

Icing Lev.

Save Vehanen, and he covers for a faceoff in the Lev zone.

Long slapper from Sevc, caught by Leighton and he puts it back in play.

Back the other way, puck out of play in the Lev zone. Faceoff inside.

Vrana in yet another bid for the hat trick, shot from a bad angle is turned away.

Icing Lev.

Kaspar circles the net and centres for Wirtanen, deflected wide. Finally Vehanen covers it.

Yakutsenya with a high wrister from the slot, blocker save Vehanen.

Icing Donbass.

First Sekac fans on a shot attempt, then Nemec sends a shot from the point just wide with Leighton screened.

Jiri Sekac takes a high stick in the slot, play continues, fans and Lev bench howl.

Lev back at full strength, play in their own zone.

Shot by Dadonov deflected wide.

Zackrisson intercepts a pass attempt and ices it.

We have a bit of a delay, as they're having trouble anchoring the net that Michael Leighton will be defending this period.

Way back in the third period, the attendance of this game was announced at 5686, and most of them are actually still here. I'd say around 4500.

The teams are back again, we've got the third overtime coming up. Will it be the last?

Well, we've now played 100 minutes of hockey here tonight. That fifth period was a lot less energetic than the fourth for most of it, but in the late going things opened up and both teams had glorious chances to win it -- a beautiful individual effort by Jiri Sekac and a breakaway by Yevgeni Dadonov . But here we are, with period number six coming up.

Shots on goal in the 2nd overtime (and game): Lev 7 (43), Donbass 10 (46).

Quality scoring chances: Lev 2 (14), Donbass 3 (12).

3rd overtime period begins at 23:10 CET, 18:10 EDT.

Vehanen finally covers it for one last whistle.

Klepis the wrister from the right wing, right on Leighton, and he holds on.

Oystrick a hard wrister from the point, blocker save Leighton.

Puck deflected out of play in the Donbass zone by a Lev stick, faceoff outside.

Offside Lev on the shoot-in, faceoff at centre ice.

Lev trying to get some offence going, but two shots blocked. Donbass players just throwing their bodies in front. Surprising they can get back up after.

Puck out of play in the Donbass zone, faceoff inside.

Matai the wrister, blocker save Leighton.

Offside Lev, and a close one as Cingel would have been in alone. Fans whistle, but the linesman made the safe call.

Zackrisson with the long shot, easily handled by Leighton and he freezes it.

Teemu Laine leads a Donbass rush, backhander from a weak angle, caught and held by Vehanen.

Offside Donbass.

Vrana with a low backhander from the point, scooped up by Leighton and held.

Maenpaa attempted a shot from the point, blocked, and Donbass called for icing again.

Icing Donbass.

Offside Lev, and more pushing and shoving after the whistle.

Thornberg shoots from a sharp angle, caught and held by Leighton, and we get some pushing and shoving after the whistle. Surprising these players have the energy for that at this point.

Faceoff win by Varlamov, wrister from the point by Bartulis, caught and held by Vehanen, so we'll do it again.

Icing Lev.

Long Donbass shot on Vehanen as both teams change up.

Lukas Kaspar buzzing in the Lev zone, trying to set up a couple of chances but neither connects.

To the point to Andrei Konev and he rips it just wide.

Shot from Kubalik right on Leighton, and he holds on.

Viktor Zakharov is the first one to get to a Donbass shoot-in, his shot from a sharp angle hits Vehanen in the pads.

The teams are returning to the ice and period number 5 is on deck.

Well, four periods are in the books here in Prague. Are four more ahead of us? Hopefully not, but you never know.

Lev hit a post on the opening shift and had all sorts of pressure in the early going of that period, even earning a power play, but Donbass came back with a bit of a push later. Overall, Lev had the more dangerous scoring chances, but that doesn't mean anything right now.

Shots on goal in the 1st overtime period (and game): Lev 5 (36), Donbass 6 (36).

Quality scoring chances: Lev 5 (12), Donbass 2 (9).

2nd overtime period begins at 22:21 CET, 17:21 EDT.

Icing Lev.

Nemec a wrister from the point, appeared headed just wide of the post but Leighton catches and holds it.

Icing Donbass.

Now a Donbass rush and a shot by Wilson right on Vehanen, who holds on.

Razin and Kubalik battling for the puck along the boards in the Donbass zone, both go down, play continues.

Zackrisson tries to find Birner going to the far post but it's tipped to the corner.

The puck once again goes out of play, and we have the faceoff outside the Donbass blueline.

Shot lobbed from the half-boards by Laine on Vehanen, it was tricker than it looked with traffic in front.

Offside Lev on the shoot-in, faceoff at centre ice.

Now Petri Vehanen stops what I think was Donbass's first actual shot on goal of this overtime and covers. I have Lev with 5 shots already.

Matai from a sharp angle, hits Leighton with no room on the short side.

A long Donbass shot is caught and held by Petri Vehanen, though it looked like it was headed wide. Nonetheless, Donbass starting to put on some pressure after withstanding Lev in the early going.

Puck deflected out of play in the Lev zone, faceoff inside.

Now the puck is out of play again and the faceoff is at centre ice.

A bad Lev clearing attempt is kept in at the point by Bartulis, but his shot is blocked, He gets it back but can't get a shot on net.

Sevc a low shot from the point, hits a skate in front.

The puck ends up in the Lev bench. Faceoff outside the Donbass blueline.

Gragnani with a long slapper, right on Leighton, who holds on. Shots 3-0 Lev in OT.

Donbass ice it and are back at full strength -- only 1 shot for Lev on the power play.

Now the Donbass clearing attempt is deflected out of play, faceoff outside with :56 left in the penalty.

Nemec enters the zone and shoots low, Leighton turns it to the corner.

Lev with possession right off the draw, shot deflected out of play. Faceoff in the Donbass zone.

Icing Donbass.

Icing Donbass.

Lev fans on their feet now. They want a goal before overtime.

Clay Wilson joins the Donbass rush, his long wrister is kicked out by Vehanen.

Lev with possession off the draw, low shot by Birner, pad save Leighton.

Icing Donbass.

Petr Vrana fires a long wrister wide.

Play is stopped as Lukas Cingel got tangled up with Michael Leighton in the crease. Faceoff outside.

Now a Donbass shot attempt gets deflected out of play, faceoff in the Lev zone.

Sevc the low slapper from the point, right on Leighton, Donbass start back.

Puck deflected out of play in the Donbass zone, faceoff inside.

Puck deflects out of play in the neutral zone, faceoff at centre ice.

One-time slapper from Tuomas Kiiskinen, right on Vehanen, who holds on.

Tomas Kubalik leads a Lev rush, Leighton stops his backhander.

Icing Lev.

Icing Donbass.

Offside Donbass.

The puck deflects out of play in the neutral zone, faceoff outside the Lev blueline.

High wrister from Konev from the point through traffic, hits Vehanen up high.

Jiri Sekac led an odd-man rush but the defenceman back did a good job of preventing a pass and he never gets a shot away. Finally Zackrisson hits the side of the net.

Nakladal misses with a slapper.

Blagoy with a long shot from the neutral zone, Vehanen catches it and plays it up, Lev start back.

Now Donbass miss with a long pass and they're called for icing.

Icing Lev.

Laine with the slapper but it goes off the heel of his stick and it's an easy stick save for Vehanen.

The other way, Nakladal fires just wide.

Long slapper from Roman Blagoy, pad save Vehanen.

Puck bounced through the slot in the Donbass zone, Sekac couldn't get a handle on it at the side of the net.

Donbass back at full strength, Oystrick the shot, stick save Leighton, Donbass start up ice.

Martin Sevc fires a slapper high and wide, then Leighton covers the carom off the boards. :52 left in the penalty.

Thornberg fans on a one-timer from the slot, hopped over his stick at the last minute.

Lev rush, Birner the shot from the wing right on Leighton.

Lev back at full strength, they have the puck in their own zone and trying to break out.

Oskars Bartulis with the shot, stick save Vehanen, then he makes another save and Lev ice it.

Teemu Laine with the slapper right on Vehanen, and we get pushing and shoving after the whistle. :53 left in the penalty.

Donbass take the puck back up ice, Vehanen makes the save with 1:19 left in the penalty.

Lukas Kaspar tries to drive with the puck to the Lev net but Martin Sevc grabs onto him and doesn't let him go, which might have been a smart move but he gets a penalty for holding, so Lev right back to the penalty kill. Donbass 0/2 today.

Wirtanen with a low slapper from the point, kicked out by Vehanen.

Lev back at full strength, faceoff in the Donbass zone.

Yakutsenya the slapper, toe save Vehanen, then the puck is iced, which should do it for the penalty.

Wilson another shot from the point, the puck sits loose in the slot for a while before being cleared away.

Clay Wilson with a shot through a crowd, hits Vehanen's arm, then the zone is cleared.

Donbass back at full strength, Repik shoots from the corner, hits Leighton in the shoulder.

Shot from Novotny is right on Leighton, he holds on with just :03 left in the penalty.

Varlamov dumps Azevedo into the boards, then he gets dumped himself, play continues.

Azevedo with the wrister, right on Leighton with :32 left in the penalty.

Thornberg's shot from the point deflects just wide, then rings around the boards and out of the zone.

Azevedo from a sharp angle, kicked out by Leighton and Donbass ice it.

Petr Vrana drives to the net with the puck, pad save Leighton.

Puck deflects out of play in the Lev zone, faceoff inside with 1:02 left in the penalty.

Nathan Oystrick intercepts a pass and ices the puck to kill time.

Donbass with possession off the draw, Clay Wilson's slapper from the point is blocked, pops into the air, and Petri Vehanen catches the infield fly.

One-timer from Klepis whistles just wide. Lev failing to hit the net on their chances.

Nice give-and-go between Kubalik and Pacovsky, the shot missed the net.

A break for Lev but the pass failed to connect and they don't get a shot.

Wirtanen with a shot for Donbass, hits Vehanen in the chest.

O'Byrne with the wrister from the point, either stopped by Leighton or blocked right in front.

Icing Lev.

Offside called against Donbass on the shoot-in -- Dadonov didn't know the puck had come out and was trapped inside. Since it was unintentional, the faceoff stays at the Lev blueline.

Shot from the boards goes right on Leighton, he holds for a whistle. Michal Repik was in front looking for a rebound and Donbass took exception to that. Nothing much happens, though.

Back at full strength, Peter Podhradsky leads a Donbass rush, his wrister is caught and held by Vehanen, then we get a bit of pushing and shoving after the whistle.

Donbass ices it, which should kill off the rest of the penalty.

Novotny with the drop pass to Nemec for the one-timer, blocked.

Puck out of play in the neutral zone, faceoff at centre ice with 1:37 left in the penalty.

Donbass with possession off the faceoff, enter the zone, Ruslan Fedotenko fires, right on Vehanen, who holds on.

Lev with another shot right off the draw, then Donbass head down ice.

Bartulis missed a shot at one end, then Jakub Klepis led a drive down the right wing and got the game's first shot on goal from a sharp angle, Michael Leighton covered for the game's first whistle.

Petteri Wirtanen with a big hit on Pacovsky into the side boards.

Lots of hitting in the early going, still no shots or whistles.

Donbass with the early forray into the Lev zone, but unable to land any shots on net.

The national anthems of Ukraine and the Czech Republic are complete and the opening faceoff is moments away.

Lev Praha is wearing their home red uniforms with blue and white trim, red NY Rangers-style pants and blue helmets. Donbass Donetsk is wearing their road white unforms with red, black and silver trim, black pants and white helmets.

Starting Lineups:

Lev Praha: Vehanen (Engren) – Mäenpää, Ševc, Oystrick, Němec, Gragnani, O'Byrne, Nakládal – Klepiš, Novotný, Azevedo – Sekáč, Vrána, Thörnberg – Birner, Zackrisson, Řepík – Kubalík, Cingel, Matai – Pacovský.

HC Donbass Donetsk: Leighton (Laco) – Koněv, Kolář, Wilson, Podhradský, Bartulis, Razin, Silnitsky – Laine, Virtanen, Kiiskinen – Dadonov, Fedotěnko, Yakutsenya – Blagoy, Varlamov, Kašpar – Toryanik, Bělukhin, Zakharov.

Referees: Anisimov, Gofman Linesmen: Medvedev, Birin.

Game one opened on a curious play. Just after killing a penalty, Lev rushed into the Donbass post and winger Justin Azevedo fired a hard wrister that appeared to hit the goalpost and play continued. Moments later, Lev was called for offside and the officials had a look upstairs, at which point a goal was awarded. Azevedo was sitting on the bench by that time and was suddenly mobbed by his teammates, while grinning from ear to ear. After the game, though, nobody seemed quite sure what happened.

"I was just trying to get it on net and it went behind the goalie and I never really saw what happened to it," said Azevedo after the game.

"It was so fast that at that moment I couldn´t tell if it was a post or not," said teammate Petr Vrána, who was on the bench at the time of the shot. "We didn´t know if it was a goal, so we played on."

Donbass head coach Andrei Nazarov was a little less diplomatic when questioned about the goal after the game. "We don´t think should have counted," he simply stated.

From there, a four-goal outburst from Lev basically put the game away in the second period. Azevedo earned his second point of the game on the 2-0 goal, when his pass attempt was blocked but landed right on the stick of captain Jiří Novotný, who finished the play.

"It wasn´t a pretty goal," said Azevedo. "Novo´s goal was just a bang-bang play and he put it in the net and then Vrána´s was just a point shot and he deflected it in. They weren´t pretty goals. We just got pucks to the net and they went in."

The two goals came just 45 seconds apart, early in the middle frame, and chased Donbass starting goalie Ján Laco from the game. From there, things got physical, with three players going down with injuries and not returning.

"That´s playoff hockey," said Vrána. "The level of emotion in these games is intense, and every game is important. Some of the hits were maybe a little borderline, but that´s the referee´s job to decide, not mine."

For Lev, Calle Ridderwall and David Ullström both left the game in the second period after being hit hard into the boards. Both players are doubtful for game two.

"Ullström has an upper-body injury and is in the hospital for examination," said coach Kari Jalonen after the game, adding, "Rdderwall is lower-body, but we don´t know exactly what it is."

Donbass defenceman Oleg Piganovich also left the game after apparently hitting his head on the net, and his status for game two is also uncertain.

Most observers seem to think that there is a lot of room for improvement from both teams, and game two could be a different type of game.

"I don´t think we played a bad game, but there are a lot of areas that we could improve," said Azevedo, specifically naming the power play and how the team played with the lead in the third period. As for Donbass, he said: "They´re a good team. They´re going to be pissed off and ready to go tomorrow, so we´ve got to be ready to play."

"I don´t think (game one) showed the best of either team," said Vrána. "We scored goals, but we made a lot of mistakes. If Donetsk had played at a level which they normally play, the game would have looked completely different."

"We lost this game because we lacked speed and aggressiveness," said Nazarov. "That´s not an excuse, but a fact."

One question regarding Donbass is who their starting goalie will be. Laco was lifted in favour of Michael Leighton after the third Lev goal. Both goalies have appeared five times in the team´s first eight playoff games -- four starts and one relief appearance each. Lev will almost certainly come back with Petri Vehanen.

Welcome. Game 2 of this Western Conference semifinal series starts at 19:00 CET local time in Prague, 20:00 EET in Donetsk, 14:00 EDT.