Puck deflects into the Metallurg bench, faceoff at centre ice.

Ridderwall a long backhander, blocker save Koshechkin for the first shot of overtime.

Icing Lev.

Lee shoots wide, finally the puck comes to Vehanen and he covers it.

Puck chipped in deep into the Metallurg zone . . .

Gragnani blasts a long shot well wide of the target.

Gragnani blasts a long shot well wide of the target.

Lev with the puck around the edges in the zone but can't get anything to the net, as Metallurg is back in a shell.

Cingel from the right wing, stick save Koshechkin.

Pare leads a rush against the flow of play, pad save Vehanen, Lev back the other way.

Thornberg the shot from the left wing boards, Koshechkin gets a glove on it.

Now the puck is deflected out of play in the Metallurg zone, faceoff inside.

Lev buzzing in the Metallurg zone but not getting shots on Koshechkin, now they clear the zone.

Icing Metallurg.

Thornberg's shot is deflected out of play in the Metallurg zone, faceoff inside.

Zaripov tries to go high with a wrister, Vehanen turns it to the corner.

Slapper from Yevgeny Biryukov, right on Vehanen holds on.

Nemec with a wrister from the point, deflected wide.

The Lev net is displaced and play is stopped, faceoff inside.

Lev clear it the length of the ice right on Koshechkin, no icing.

Offside Lev.

Now Zackrisson ices it, and Lev give chase down low to kill some time.

Puck deflects out of play near the Lev blueline, faceoff outside.

Thornberg from a sharp angle, pad save Koshechkin.

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

Another Lev rush, centring pass from Azevedo hits a sliding Metallurg defenceman and slides right to Mozyakin.

Mozyakin holds the puck forever at the top of the circle, finally shoots and Vehanen makes a pad save.

Shot by Zaripov, stick save Vehanen.

Metallurg chips it out of the zone, hits someone on the Lev bench, and play is stopped. Faceoff outside the line.

Lev to the attack, Ridderwall shoots wide.

Sevc sends the puck through the slot, hoping for a re-direction but it slides wide.

Off the draw, Metallurg send the puck the length of the ice.

Azevedo's slap pass is deflected out of play by Zackrisson, who goes down in front of the net. No penalty on the play though, and the faceoff goes outside.

Now Azevedo with another blast, blocked.

Lev threatening in the Metallurg zone but not hitting the net -- Nakladal blasts it wide. Crowd really into it now.

Kapanen from a sharp angle, kicked out by Koshechkin.

Metallurg with an offensive surge, then the zone is cleared and they bring it back in offside.

Lee from the point through traffic, blocker save Vehanen.

Offside Lev.

Offside Metallurg.

One-timer from the point by Gragnani, right on Koshechkin holds on.

Icing Metallurg.

Now a Lev rush but Koshechkin makes the save and holds on.

Metallurg with pressure in the Lev zone but not getting shots, finally Lee pinches in from the point and fires but it's blocked.

Icing Lev.

Lev pressure continues, Nemec's point shot is deflected on Koshechkin, who catches it and holds on.

Now Maenpaa from the point, Koshechkin holds on for the first stoppage of the game. All Lev in the early going.

Now a shot from the point by Sevc is deflected in front by Matai right on Koschechkin, stick save.

Ridderwall with a long shot from the neutral zone, Koshechkin plays it with the stick, might have been headed wide.

Ryan O'Byrne's slapper is blocked, still no shots for either team.

Thunderous hit by Brent on Thornberg near the Metallurg blueline.

The national anthems of the Russian Federation and Czech Republic have been played, and the opening faceoff is moments away.

The arena is dark and the teams are being introduced with music and a spotlight.

Starting Lineups:

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

Metallurg Magnitogorsk: Koshechkin (Pekhursky) – Antipin, Biryukov, Khabarov, Tereschenko, Lee, Ibragimov, Metlyuk, Malinovsky – Mozyakin, Kovář, Zaripov – Potekhin, Kazionov, Paré – Kosov, Yunkov, Platonov – Osala, Brent, Timkin..

Lev Praha played almost exactly the way they wanted to in game 5, but gave Sergei Mozyakin two chances to unleash his deadly shot from the high slot, and that was all Metallurg Magnitogorsk needed to win 2-1 in overtime.

"We can´t even give him a chance. Today he got two and scored on both. That decided the game," said defenceman Martin Ševc, who did all he could to contain Metallurg´s big sniper with a deadly hip-check early in the game. "Otherwise, I would say that we played the other lines well. That´s not good enough for us, though. We need to play Mozyakin and the others on that line very carefully."

Beyond the big hit, Ševc was solid all game with a great defensive play to break up a two-on-one. His blast from the point early in the third period also provided Lev´s only goal of the game -- a deflection by Justin Azevedo to extend his goal-scoring streak to six games, tying a KHL playoff record.

"It was a model playoff game," described Metallurg head coach Mike Keenan. "Excellent goaltending on both sides and excellent performances by some great players. Our captain Mozyakin scored two goals. Azevedo also scored and was in top form. It was a close game that was decided by individuals."

"It was a very even game," said Lev coach Kari Jalonen. "We had some good moments, especially towards the end of the second period. We played with a lot of heart and had several chances to score, and finally pushed through early in the third. And overtime is overtime. Metallurg had a good chance and scored on it."

Despite the loss, however, the Lions remained in high spirits on the four-hour flight home, confident that it won´t be their last.

"Nothing is over," captain Jiří Novotný said on board the plane. "Let's go back to our full arena and not hang our heads."

Another large and noisy crowd is expected at O2 Arena on Monday night, in what will definitely be Lev´s final home game of the season, win or lose. In each of the two previous games in Prague during the series, new KHL single-game attendance records were set. The fans went out of their way to support the home team and, in the opinion of the league, a little too far, resulting in a fine. Despite that, it´s hoped that in game 6 an attendance record will be set once more.

The situation is clear -- Metallurg can claim the Gagarin Cup with a win. If Lev win, the teams return back to Magnitogorsk for a seventh game on Wednesday.

Welcome. Game 6 of the Gagarin Cup Finals starts at 19:00 CEST local time in Prague, 23:00 YEKT in Magnitogorsk, 13:00 EDT.