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SKA St. Petersburg
1:4 (0:2, 0:2, 1:0)
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Thursday 14.08.2014, 11:00 • Ufa Arena • Friendly matches
     
    Despite that penalty shoot out Metallurg have indeed beaten SKA 4-1 in the opening match of the pre-season tournament the Bashkortostan Cup! Oscar Osala, Alexey Bereglazov, Viktor Antipin and Sergey Mozyakin all scored for Metallurg, while Evgeniy Dadonov got on the board for SKA. Thanks for following the game with us, until next time. (13:07:18)
     
    Artemiy Panarin now for SKA has his backhander deflected over, and the referee calls time on that for a 1-1 penalty shot draw!
     
    Alexey Bereglazov scores a beautiful penalty shot, as he slides the puck under to make it 1-1!
     
    Roman Cervenka now for SKA, he cuts to the left hand post and wrists it home!
     
    Francis Pare is next for Metallurg, he waits for Alexander Salak to go down but the goalkeeper spreads himself well
     
    Ilya Kovalchuk skates up for SKA, but he wrists it right into the goalkeeper's glove
     
    Despite Metallurg having already won the game we're going to have a penalty shoot out here! And Mikhail Yunkov has already backhanded wide of the right hand post for Metallurg!
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:35
    We're now into the final few seconds with Metallurg heading to a confidence boosting pre-season win
     
    58:26
    Evgeniy Ketov drifting with the puck all the the way back to the point wrists it in, but it lacks pace and comes to nothing
     
    56:57
    Both sides are again back to full strength
     
    56:41
    Mozyakin! Sergey Mozyakin showing off all his flashy skills jinks his way in and around his opponents cutting in from the left, but from point blank range he can't beat the goalkeeper!
     
    54:57
    There's isn't too much time left and for now it's a four on four game, Vadim Shipachyov and Yaroslav Kosov for separate offences have both been punished
     
    54:41
    Tikhonov! A long searching pass from deep picks out the on rushing Viktor Tikhonov, he backhands it but it gets deflected up and out of play!
     
    54:02
    Ilya Kablukov taking up the puck twists all the way around the net, but his backhand pass from the right post finds only the goalkeeper's pads
     
    53:08
    After tricky build up play from Artemiy Panarin Vadim Shipachyov tries his luck on the right faceoff circle, but it's directly into Vasiliy Koshechkin's pads
     
    51:22
    SKA just about survived on that penalty kill and they're back at full strength
     
    51:08
    Zaripov! How didn't he score! Dished completely free at the right hand post Danis Zaripov slaps the puck only on to the woodwork!
     
    50:11
    Antipin! With no one near him Viktor Antipin closes down to the left of the crease, but his high effort looking for the near corner is beaten out wide!
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 44. Dadonov (Shipachyov) – 13. Osala, 15. Bereglazov (Timkin), 25. Antipin (Zaripov), 36. Mozyakin (Malenkikh)

    SKA St. Petersburg: Salak (Shestyorkin)- Kalinin, Ryasensky, Kovalchuk, Ericsson, Tikhonov- Y Alexandrov, Kuteikin, Panarin, Shipachyov, Dadonov- Chudinov, Belov, Thoresen, Martensson, Cervenka- Sergeev, Semenov, Ketov, Kablukov, Ponikarovsky
    Metallurg Magnitogorsk: Koshechkin (Pechursky)- Lee, Antipin, Malenkikh, Biryukov, Bereglazov, Tereschenko, Khabarov- Mozyakin, Shafigulin, Pare, Timkin, Zaripov, Yakutseniya, Brent, Platonov, Kovar, Osala, Kosov, Yunkov, Grigorenko