KHL
Medvescak – SKA St. Petersburg 1:5 (end)
final
Medvescak Zagreb
1:5 (1:2, 0:2, 0:1)
SKA St. Petersburg
Monday 29.09.2014, 19:30 • Dom Sportova • KHL
     
    There is the final buzzer, and SKA Saint Petersburg have quite incredibly won their eleventh game in a row 5:1 over Medvescak in Zagreb! They simply look unstoppable as with every game they keep on setting new records! Matt Anderson gave Medvescak an early lead, but SKA replied with five straight goals from Patrick Thoresen, Vadim Shipachyov, Evgeniy Dadonov and Tony Martensson with a double. Thanks for following the game with us, and see you again soon for more thrilling KHL action! (22:06:57)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:47
    It's now the final few seconds of the match with SKA coasting to a very classy 5:1 triumph on the road!
     
    58:34
    Before the game is our SKA are going on the penalty kill for the final time today, as forward Igor Makarov has been slapped with a 2+10 penalty for checking to the head and neck area
     
    57:52
    Medvescak have five players on the ice again, and already there are only just over two minutes left until the finish!
     
    57:34
    Chudinov! Patrick Thoresen intelligently tees up Maxim Chudinov at the blue line, but his powerful drive is held by the netminder crouched down!
     
    55:52
    Once again players on both sides are getting angry with each other! And for a dirty hit against Igor Makarov Anthony Stewart of Medvescak has been sent to the penalty box, that wasn't the cleanest of challenges at all!
     
    55:13
    Alexander Salak very confidently holds on to a low cutting effort from the point. And the referees have to calm everyone down as tempers start to raise in the aftermath, it's been a rather physical game today!
     
    54:48
    Medvescak couldn't create any real pressure in SKA's zone though and the visitors are back at full strength
     
    52:48
    And Alexey Semyonov has now collected a penalty against his name for SKA, as he has been called for tripping
     
    52:23
    Ilya Kovalchuk slides home a Alexey Semyonov feed from an awkward angle on the left, but the goal has been waved off! A distinct kicking motion was noticed by the referees, and we play on at 5:1!
     
    52:08
    Hedden! Just how didn't he score there! On a big giveaway on the doorstep Mike Hedden takes Alexander Salak out of the game, but he blasts it over the open net! It looked impossible to miss!
     
    51:12
    Cervenka! He should really have made it six! On a pacy and clever counteratatck Roman Cervenka is played in one on one, but glove side he thumps it wide of the near post!
     
    50:51
    Yury Alexandrov pulling out to the right hand boards wrists in on net, and with Evgeniy Dadonov standing nearby Mark Dekanich punches it up and out of play
     
    49:56
    Visiting forward Igor Makarov looks in real pain here though, as after being what looks like poked in the chest the doctors are helping him off the ice
     
    49:54
    The Medvescak bench don't look satisfied at all now, SKA's counterattacks are simply ripping them apart and the Croats have very little confidence left!
     
    47:50
    Goal for SKA!
    They're running away with it now! EVGENIY DADONOV is dished sprinting through one on one, and he superbly gets the better of the goaltender! It's 1:5! Assists- Yury Alexandrov and Vadim Shipachyov
     
    46:16
    SKA couldn't get an awful lot going on that particular powerplay though and the hosts are back at full strength again
     
    45:09
    Evgeniy Dadonov is dished with a searching Ilya Kovalchuk feed hanging by the right of the crease, but he doesn't hit it as he would have wanted!
     
    44:16
    Just as SKA came back to full strength they themselves are going to have a man's advantage! Mark Dekanich coughed up the puck to Patrick Thoresen behind the net, and he had no choice to body check him! Aaron Polushaj will sit this one out on his behalf
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 3. Anderson – 8. Thoresen (Tikhonov), 18. Shipachyov (Panarin, Dadonov), 25. Martensson (Thoresen, Belov), 36. Martensson, 48. Dadonov (Alexandrov, Shipachyov)

    Medvescak Zagreb: Dekanich (Brust)- Martinovic, Flood, Glumac, Murray, Bjorkstrand- Mezei, Carle, Segal, Pelletier, St. Pierre- Katic, Thomas, Polushaj, Anderson, Stewart- Perkovich, Wright, Hedden,
    SKA St. Petersburg: Salak (Ivannikov)- Kalinin, Yudin, Kovalchuk, Ericsson, Tikhonov- Kuteikin, Y Alexandrov, Panarin, Shipachyov, Dadonov- Chudinov, Belov, Thoresen, Martensson, Cervenka- Semyonov, Ermakov, Burdasov, Kablukov, Makarov
    Referees: Alexey Ravodin, Evgeniy Romasko, Dmitriy Golovyov, Ivan Fateev