Lev – Metallurg M 3:2 (end)
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Lev Praha
3:2 (1:0, 0:1, 2:1)
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Tuesday 22.04.2014, 19:00 • O2 Arena, Prague • KHL
     
    59:36
    Goal for Lev!
    Are you kidding me?? A turnover at the Lev blueline, Mikko Maenpaa carries the puck through the neutral zone, then feeds JUSTIN AZEVEDO streaking to the net. As he's tripped from behind, he goes upstairs with it under the crossbar and flies through the air like Bobby Orr! I can't believe what I just saw.
    Assist: Mikko Maenpaa.
     
    58:42
    Goal for Metallurg!
    Pare and Mozyakin pass back and forth at the point, and Mozyakin shoots. Vehanen makes the pad save but FRANCIS PARE is there to put in the rebound. Wow. I'm not sure what they were reviewing, but we've got a tied game.
    Assists: Sergei Mozyakin, Chris Lee.
     
    58:42
    Metallurg puts the puck in the net, Francis Pare it appears, but they're reviewing it upstairs. For what, exactly, I'm not sure.
     
    58:15
    Koshechkin goes to the bench for an extra attacker.
     
    Attendance is 16 437, a KHL record.
     
    53:01
    Mozyakin to Zaripov again, tried to beat Vehanen before he could get across and just missed
     
    52:10
    Slap pass from Mozyakin from the top of the circle is re-directed by Zaripov down low, tries to sneak it in the short side but Vehanen keeps it out. 1:35 left in the penalty.
     
    51:45
    Time out Metallurg. They see this as their big chance.
     
    51:45
    Now Martin Sevc is called for hooking trying to contain Mozyakin along the boards. He's furious with the call and the whistling from the crowd is deafening. After giving up a power-play goal, Metallurg now with a huge chance to tie this game on the power play.
     
    50:59
    Goal for Lev!
    They keep at it on the power play, trying to break down the box, and finally JUSTIN AZEVEDO sneak in the back door and Oystrick finds him with a perfect pass and he re-directs it in. Power-play goal.
    Assists: Nathan Oystrick, Mikko Maenpaa.
     
    49:09
    Matai gets the puck in the slot but he's hooked by Tim Brent, who goes right back to the box. That one a much better penalty to take though. Lev to the power play, 0/2 today.
     
    45:12
    The Lev power play is now over as Jiri Novotny is called for high sticking, so we'll play 4-on-4 for 1:29, faceoff in the Lev zone.
     
    44:41
    Tim Brent trips a player deep in the attacking zone, Lev move the puck up ice on the delay, but he's finally going off and Lev go to the power play.
     
    43:20
    Now Zackrisson out front to Azevedo, robbed by Koshechkin from point-blank. Azevedo then digs for his own rebound but the puck squirts to the corner.
     
    42:55
    Justin Azevedo just misses Patrik Zackrisson with a breakaway pass, and it goes for icing.
     
    40:15
    Magnitka go right to the attack, Mozyakin carries it in, feeds Zaripov but Vehanen denies him.
     
    38:57
    Goal for Metallurg!
    SERGEI MOZYAKIN is an amazing player. He got the puck on the boards, then curled out to the top of the circle and fired an absolute rocket top corner, using a Lev penalty killer as a screen. Power-play goal.
    Assist: Danis Zaripov.
     
    38:18
    Michal Birner is called for a trip in the neutral zone, so Metallurg goes to the power play late in this period, which may be inopportune for Lev. Metallurg 0/1 today.
     
    37:20
    Now Lev with the chances, Thornberg centres for Sekac, Koshechkin denies him from point blank, then the puck comes back to Thornberg again and Koshechkin makes another save.
     
    36:22
    Platonov the shot, hits Vehanen in the chest, then Kosov the rebound on the backhander and Vehanen stops that too. He's in the zone.
     
    34:03
    Mozyakin holds the puck forever, seems to have Vehanen committed to the shot and dishes to Danis Zaripov, but his quick shot is knocked away by a diving Petri Vehanen. He does it again!
     
    32:50
    Yunkov from the corner out front to Pare, and his one-time backhander goes just wide. That would have been pretty.
     
    28:17
    And now another chance for Lev, Jiri Sekac makes a great move to beat a defenceman and gets a shot, then gets to his own rebound and tries to go upstairs over a fallen Vitaly Koshechkin, but goes over the crossbar, over the glass and out of play. Faceoff outside. And this crowd gives Lev a huge ovation for that shift.
     
    27:39
    Martin Sevc the blast from the point, had Koshechkin commited but deflects just wide of the post.
     
    23:24
    Back and forth action. A Metallurg chance at one end, then Lev come back the other way 2-on-1, the one-timer from Maenpaa right on Koshechkin, who holds on.
     
    22:51
    Lev keep the pressure on, Koshechkin covers the puck, then Jakub Matai and Yaroslav Khabarov mix it up after the whistle. They are each sent off for 2 minutes, so we'll play 4-on-4.
     
    18:16
    First Azevedo took a slash on the wrist that went uncalled, but then Jan Kovar delivers a cross-check to Martin Sevc and he's called. Lev to the power play, 1/4 in the series.
     
    14:53
    Shot from the point by Sevc through traffic, hits Koshechkin and he stops the rebound too.
     
    14:35
    Now Yaroslav Khabarov absolutely hammers Tomas Kubalik with an open-ice hit at the Lev blueline. Talk about a suicide pass. Kubalik got up and gave him a cross-check as he didn't like it, but that looked like a good clean hit and play continues.
     
    07:16
    Ondrej Nemec is getting the game's first penalty for holding the stick in front of his own net, so Metallurg goes to the power play. They were 1/3 in game 2, 1/7 in the series.
     
    01:25
    Goal for Lev!
    The original shot came from the point by Nemec. Koshechkin stopped it but the rebound was loose for a while, JIRI SEKAC picked it up in the slot, circled the net and scored. Fantastic individual effort.
    Assist: Martin Thornberg, Petr Vrana.
    Commentary by

    Derek OBrien

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    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 2. Sekac (Thornberg, Vrana), 51. Azevedo (Oystrick, Maenpaa), 60. Azevedo (Maenpaa) – 39. Mozyakin (Zaripov), 59. Pare (Mozyakin, Lee)

    Lev Praha: Vehanen (Engren) – Ševc, Mäenpää, Oystrick, Němec, Gragnani, O'Byrne, Jaakola, Nakládal – Zackrisson, Novotný, Azevedo – Sekáč, Vrána, Thörnberg – Birner, Kapanen, Řepík – Matai, Cingel, Kubalík.
    Metallurg Magnitogorsk: Koshechkin (Pekhursky) – Antipin, Biryukov, Khabarov, Tereschenko, Lee, Ibragimov, Malenkikh – Mozyakin, Kovář, Zaripov – Potekhin, Grigorenko, Paré – Kosov, Yunkov, Platonov – Osala, Brent, Timkin – Malinovsky.
    Referees: Olenin, Rönn Linesmen: Sivov, Shelyanin