KHL
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final
Traktor Chelyabinsk
2:6 (0:4, 2:2, 0:0)
SKA St. Petersburg
Monday 15.09.2014, 15:00 • Arena Traktor • KHL
     
    The final buzzer has now sounded, and SKA Saint Petersburg have now made it five wins out of five with a thumping 6:2 triumph over Traktor Chelyabinsk! Traktor had most of the puck and even the chances, but SKA were deadly clinical. Patrick Thoresen, Roman Cervenka, Dmitriy Kalinin, Tony Martensson, Ilya Kovalchuk and Alexander Kucheryavenko all got on the scoreboard for SKA, whereas Martin Ruzicka and Vyacheslav Osonovin got the hosts' consolation goals. Thanks for following the game with us, and join me again shortly for HC Sochi against Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg in the KHL! (17:15:28)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:36
    We're now into the final seconds with SKA heading for a very comfortable and confident 6:2 away victory!
     
    58:17
    Quint! Deron Quint snaps first time on the right faceoff circle, but Alexander Salak denies him with a very solid save on his knees!
     
    57:32
    Both sides are now almost waiting for the final buzzer to go as the game is starting to peter out
     
    56:01
    Kotsitsyn! Andrey Kostistyn on the doorstep gets something on to the puck with bodies all around him, but it lacks power to trouble the goalkeeper!
     
    55:24
    Up skates Kyle Wilson, he opts to go up close with the backhand but Alexander Salak practically doing the splits shuts the door! He's had a really excellent game today and we play on at 2:6!
     
    55:24
    All of a sudden Traktor have been gifted a penalty shot! Kyle Wilson was chopped down when charging through one on one!
     
    54:21
    Dadonov! Evgeniy Dadonov gets the better of his defender charging behind the net from the left, he pokes it across but it comes off a skate and rolls wide!
     
    53:17
    Anton Burdasov powering his way down the right wing is cleverly fed with a cross ice pass by Tony Martensson, but from point blank range he can't get the better of Vasiliy Demchenko!
     
    51:09
    Penkovskiy! It seemed completely impossible to miss the target! On the doorstep Artyom Penkovskiy contrives to whack the puck over the open and gaping net much to the dismay of the Arena Traktor!
     
    50:23
    The hosts have let yet another powerplay go to waste, it just isn't their day today! SKA are killing penalties with their eyes shut!
     
    49:21
    Alexander Salak crouched down glove side very confidently holds on to a testing wrist shot. Despite conceding twice he has been very solid for SKA today!
     
    48:23
    Traktor have another powerplay opportunity to try and get something going, as SKA forward Vadim Shipachyov has been called for hooking
     
    47:56
    Dadonov! Evgeniy Dadonov lurking on the left of the crease slaps the puck into the boards past the left hand post! That had the goaltender panicking!
     
    46:17
    Anton Burdasov and Igor Makarov burst away together on a pacy breakaway, the latter while falling into the left hand boards flashes it across goal but no one is there to connect
     
    45:02
    Martensson! Tony Martensson is fed waiting at the tip of the slot, but he whips it inches wide of the far post! Maybe he should have hit the target from such a position!
     
    44:09
    SKA killed those penalties simply expertly and they're back at full strength. But their defenceman Dinar Khafizullin has been helped off the ice with what looks like a painful hand injury!
     
    43:51
    Roman Cervenka shorthanded sprints away down the left, and be buys SKA some time by forcing the goaltender to cover his rising wrister
     
    43:35
    Wilson! Sneaking in to the right of the slot Kyle Wilson lets a snapshot go, but despite being slightly out of position Alexander Salak still manages to kick it wide!
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 22. Ruzicka (Bulis, Panov), 36. Osnovin (Mokin, Quint) – 5. Thoresen (Cervenka), 8. Cervenka (Martensson, Chudinov), 20. Kalinin (Dadonov), 20. Martensson (Cervenka), 32. Kovalchuk (Kuteikin), 33. Kucheryavenko (Makarov, Burdasov)

    Traktor Chelyabinsk: Fokin (Demchenko)- Quint, Kondratev, Chistov, Wilson, Kostitsyn- Piganovich, Khlystov, Panov, Bulis, Ruzicka- Katichev, Atyushov, Glinkin, Popov, Kokuyov- Kostromitin, Borodkin, Penkovskiy, Osnovin, Mokin
    SKA St. Petersburg: Salak (Ivannikov)- Kalinin, Yudin, Kovalchuk, Ericsson, Tikhonov- Y Alexandrov, Khafizullin, Ketov, Shipachyov, Dadonov- Chudinov, Belov, Thoresen, Martensson, Cervenka- Kuteikin, Burdasov, Kucheryavenko, Makarov
    Referees: Sergey Belyaev, Alexander Soin, Konstantin Gordenko, Viktor Tomilov