Lev – Lokomotiv 3:2 (end)
final
Lev Praha
3:2 (2:1, 1:1, 1:0)
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Thursday 10.04.2014, 19:00 • O2 Arena, Prague • KHL
     
    Lev Praha win the game 3-2 and pour off the bench. They are KHL Western Conference Champions! They will play the winner of Magnitogorsk-Ufa in the Gagarin Cup Finals. (21:16:04)
     
    59:25
    Pass misses and Loko have to regroup in their own zone.
     
    59:05
    Now into the Lev zone, Sanford to the bench.
     
    58:25
    Timeout Lokomotiv. This is their season.
     
    54:23
    One-time slapper from Geoff Platt, going for the hat-trick, but Petri Vehanen slides across to make the save. Platt looks skyward. :36 left in the penalty.
     
    52:59
    An interesting turn of events as Martin Thornberg is called for tripping in his own zone. Lokomotiv to the power play with a golden chance to tie this game.
     
    50:11
    Lev rush, Martin Thornberg with the wrister from the left wing but Curtis Sanford flashes the leather and makes a big glove save. Every save he makes is crucial now, as his team can't afford to go down 2 goals again.
     
    48:00
    Plotnikov to Averin at the top of the slot, hard wrister but Vehanen kicks it out.
     
    44:05
    Thornberg to Vrana, denied by Sanford from point blank.
     
    37:22
    Lokomotiv just scored and now they're going to the power play, as Tomas Kubalik is called for slashing. Momentum maybe shifting.
     
    37:05
    Goal for Lokomotiv!
    Amazing goal by GEOFF PLATT! Plotnikov centred him the pass from the corner, a defenceman checking him forced the puck airbourne and he took a baseball swing at it to drive it over Vehanen's glove and into the net.
    Assist: Sergei Plotnikov.
     
    34:25
    The puck deflects off a Lev stick in their own zone and goes right to Yegor Averin in the slot, he tried to quickly make a move but couldn't beat Vehanen.
     
    31:46
    Impressive rush by Jiri Sekac as he drives hard to the net but Curtis Sanford holds is ground and doesn't let the puck through.
     
    25:56
    Goal for Lev!
    After the save at one end Lev come back 2 on 1, Repik feeds MICHAL BIRNER. Sanford first makes a great toe save off his one-time wrister, but he got the rebound back and put it over top of the goalie to restore the 2-goal lead.
    Assists: Michal Repik, Niko Kapanen.
     
    22:21
    Lokomotiv applying pressure, Sergei Konkov weaves his way through the slot and fires a wrister, big glove save by Petri Vehanen.
     
    16:51
    Goal for Lokomotiv!
    They get one right back. Mikelis Redlihs had the puck behind the Lev net and found GEOFF PLATT in the slot, who one-timed it in before Vehanen could react. A huge goal to get Yaroslavl back in this game.
    Assists: Mikelis Redlihs, Kirill Kapustin.
     
    15:31
    Goal for Lev!
    JUSTIN AZEVEDO and Nemec play pitch-and-catch along the boards, and Azevedo tees up a rocket from the top of the circle that blows over Sanford's shoulder, with Jiri Novotny providing a perfect screen in front. Power-play goal.
    Assist: Ondrej Nemec.
     
    13:55
    Sergei Konkov of Lokomotiv is getting this game's first period, as he put a hook on Tomas Kubalik, who was trying to get into good shooting position. He missed the net with his shot but drew the penalty. Lev to the power play.
     
    10:45
    Goal for Lev!
    For the 5th straight game Lev scores the first goal in this series. Kapanen from the corner sent it back to the point to Nakladal, and his wrister through traffic is deflected in by MICHAL REPIK. Like many Lev goals this series, Sanford saw nothing.
    Assists: Jakub Nakladal, Niko Kapanen.
     
    06:20
    The other way, there's a big scramble in the Lev crease and the puck actually gets behind Vehenan and heads toward the goal line, but Martin Sevc rescues it with his stick inches from the line!
     
    04:10
    Galimov finds Holos sneaking in from the point and he one-times it from the top of the circle, Vehanen gets a piece of it.
     
    02:28
    Great solo rush from Calle Ridderwall, cuts in on goal but Sanford gets a pad on his shot to tip it just wide.
    Commentary by

    Derek OBrien

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    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 11. Repik (Nakladal, Kapanen), 16. Azevedo (Nemec), 26. Birner (Repik, Kapanen) – 17. Platt (Redlihs, Kapustin), 38. Platt (Plotnikov)

    Lev Praha: Vehanen (Engren) – Ševc, Mäenpää, Oystrick, Němec, Gragnani, O'Byrne, Nakládal – Ridderwall, Novotný (C), Azevedo – Sekáč, Vrána, Thörnberg – Birner, Kapanen, Řepík – Matai, Zackrisson, Kubalík.
    Lokomotiv Yaroslavl: Sanford (Kolesnik) – Yakovlev, Kronwall, Vishnevsky, Holøs, Vasiliev, Lyubushkin, Gorokhov (C), Sprukts – Averin, Apalkov, Plotnikov – Platt, Petrov, Redlihs – Konkov, Kartayev, Galimov – Musatov, Kapustin, Chernikov.
    Referees: Gofman, Soin. Linesmen: Sivov, Shelyanin