KHL
Medvescak – SKA St. Petersburg 0:5 (end)
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Medvescak Zagreb
0:5 (0:2, 0:2, 0:1)
SKA St. Petersburg
Wednesday 01.10.2014, 20:00 • Dom Sportova • KHL
     
    The final buzzer has now sounded, and SKA Saint Petersburg have extended their record winning streak to 12 games with a very comfortable 5:0 win over Medvescak in Zagreb! They were in control right from the very start, and didn't give their opponents a sniff. Artemiy Panarin with a double, Patrick Thoresen, Andrey Kuteikin and Vadim Shipachyov all got on the scoreboard, and netminder Alexander Salak got his first clean sheet of the season. Thanks for following the game with us, and see you again soon for more thrilling KHL action! (22:35:54)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:50
    SKA are back at full strength and Alexander Salak is heading for a well earned shut out, as his team are cruising to a very simple 5:0 triumph away from home!
     
    57:50
    Medvescak want to give their fans something to shout about and they've got an ideal powerplay chance in which to make it happen, SKA defenceman Dmitriy Yudin has been penalised for interference
     
    57:44
    Sasa Martinovic skating away from his marker at the high slot wrists in with a defender flying out to cover, and it harmlessly ends up in the goaltender's midriff
     
    56:31
    Anderson! Matt Anderson evades the whole SKA defence on the right wing, one on one he opts to fire in a slapshot early but Alexander Salak punches it away with his blocker! That's a really confident save by the netminder!
     
    55:03
    Yet again tempers start to seriously rise here! Just after Evgeniy Ketov was hacked down when sprinting through one on one a mass brawl erupts between him and opposing Medvescak players, and eventually he and Nathan Perkovich have been sent to the penalty box for roughing!
     
    54:27
    Khafizullin! Peeling off the right hand boards Dinar Khafizullin slaps in high, and Mark Dekanich has to make a very awkward looking body save off balance!
     
    53:01
    James Wright moves in down the left, skating off the left faceoff circle fires in but it's directly down Alexander Salak's throat! It's hard to explain just how simple it's been for SKA today, they won't have many games easier than today's"
     
    52:36
    Goal for SKA!
    This is extremely easy now for SKA! The visitors swing the puck around the attacking zone with panache, and VADIM SHIPACHYOV with an empty net to aim at by the left hand post makes no mistake! It's 0:5! Assists- Artemiy Panarin and Evgeniy Dadonov
     
    51:36
    The home goalkeeper has to spread himself big here, as a rising Tony Martensson wrister from the high slot forces him to make a swan dive on to the puck. It has the feel of a training session for SKA!
     
    51:07
    Ilya Kovalchuk tries to find someone on the doorstep, but blocker side Mark Dekanich gets there first. Both teams seem to just be waiting for the final buzzer now!
     
    49:07
    Medvescak did look better on that penalty kill and they're back at full strength with just over half of the stanza remaining
     
    48:09
    Viktor Tikhonov takes aim from a very tight angle to the left of the net, but it travels well wide of the net with attacking partners waiting for any rebound
     
    47:07
    SKA have a powerplay here to make themselves even more comfortable, as Medvescak's Sasa Martinovic has been handed a two minute minor for interference
     
    46:55
    Alexandrov! Yury Alexandrov smashes the puck in with serious power, and the goaltender is very relieved to see that crash wide of the right hand post!
     
    45:31
    Dadonov! Just after Alexander Salak was almost caught out blocker side Evgeniy Dadonov twists around the net sharply to the right hand post, attempts a wraparound and the goalkeeper's big pad gets in the way! That was seriously close to crossing the line!
     
    45:18
    SKA's Artemiy Panarin really does want a hat trick for himself, he slaps in from the blue line but for now the netminder is standing firm
     
    44:28
    Anton Belov is the next to fire in, but with heavy traffic in between him and the goalkeeper the puck whistles into Mark Dekanich's glove
     
    43:23
    Ilya Kovalchuk gets the better of the home defence, finds himself almost through one on one but Mark Dekanich shuts the five hole just in time! SKA are time and time again cutting that Medvescak back line open!
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 4. Panarin (Shipachyov), 9. Panarin (Dadonov, Kovalchuk), 22. Thoresen (Shipachyov, Salak), 37. Kuteikin (Cervenka), 53. Shipachyov (Panarin, Dadonov)

    Medvescak Zagreb: Dekanich (Tomljenovic)- Flood, Martinovic, Glumac, Murray, Wright- Morrisonn, Thomas, Segal, Pelletier, St. Pierre- Katic, Bjorkstrand, Perkovich, Anderson, Polushaj- Stewart, Hedden, Rodman
    SKA St. Petersburg: Salak (Ivannikov)- Kalinin, Belov, Kovalchuk, Ericsson, Tikhonov- Kuteikin, Y Alexandrov, Panarin, Shipachyov, Dadonov- Khafizullin, Ryasensky, Thoresen, Martensson, Cervenka- Ermakov, Yudin, Ponikarovskiy, Kadeikin, Ketov
    Referees: Daniel Stricker, Alexey Anisimov, Dmitriy Golovyov, Ivan Fateev