KHL
Lokomotiv – SKA St. Petersburg 3:2 (2:1 after SO)
after shootout (2:1)
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
3:2 (0:0, 1:1, 1:1 - 0:0)
SKA St. Petersburg
Monday 27.10.2014, 17:30 • Arena 2000 • KHL
     
    Lokomotiv Yaroslavl have become only the second team to get the better of SKA Saint Petersburg as they have come away victorious 3:2 in the penalty shoot out! They trailed twice today and on penalties, but they showed real character to come back and win. Sergey Plotnikov, Sergey Konkov and Staffan Kronwall with the winning penalty shot all scored, whereas Alexander Barabanov and Patrick Thoresen struck for SKA. Thanks for following the game with us, and see you again soon for more thrilling KHL action! (20:19:12)
     
    Game over.
     
    65:00
    Goal for Lokomotiv!
    STAFFAN KRONWALL scores the winning penalty shot!
     
    5. series
    2:1
    Staffan Kronwall has his third effort, and again with the backhand he finds the net! It's 3:2!
     
    5. series
    1:1
    Ilya Kovalchuk is very patient, but Vitaly Kolesnik's right stops him!
     
    4. series
    1:1
    Staffan Kronwall also can't score on his seconds as Alexander Salak gets the better of him!
     
    4. series
    1:1
    Artemiy Panarin has his second attempt, but this time he fires against the netminder's pads!
     
    3. series
    1:1
    Roman Cervenka can win it here for the visitors, but with going with the backhand he's denied by the goalkeeper's glove! It's sudden death!
     
    3. series
    1:1
    Staffan Kronwall now has to score for Lokomotiv, and he does sliding the puck in with the backhand! It's 1:1!
     
    2. series
    0:1
    SKA's Artemiy Panarin takes his time, and wrists clinically into the right hand corner for 0:1!
     
    2. series
    0:0
    Sergey Konkov cuts sharply to the right hand post, but Alexander Salak's pad glove side gets in the way!
     
    1. series
    0:0
    It's Ilya Kovalchuk for SKA now, and after what seems an age he can't get an attempt away when waiting for the goalkeeper to go down!
     
    1. series
    0:0
    Daniil Apalkov skates up first for Lokomotiv, but he can't find the five hole from point blank range!
     
    Start of shootout.
     
    It really has been a fantastic encounter from start to finish, and penalty shots are a logical outcome! Interestingly for Lokomotiv Vitaly Kolesnik will take his place in net instead of Curtis Sanford, with Alexander Salak staying in his goal for SKA!
     
    65:00
    Overtime finished.
     
    64:56
    There are only a few seconds left now, and a penalty shoot out is going to have to decide these two teams today!
     
    64:01
    Dmitriy Kalinin for SKA drifting out to the right hand boards slaps in looking to catch the goaltender off guard, but Curtis Sanford isn't sleeping
     
    63:32
    Novotny! Stripping his opponent of the puck inside his own zone Jiri Novotny strides into the attack, pulls the trigger from the high slot and it slides wide of the left hand post!
     
    62:08
    Chudinov! Defenceman Maxim Chudinov skates hard from deep onto the slot, is found with a cutting feed from the left but he backhands it first time wide! That caught the home defence out!
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 34. Plotnikov (Yakovlev, Novotny), 56. Konkov (Thornberg, Apalkov), 65. Kronwall – 23. Barabanov (Khafizullin, Kovalchuk), 42. Thoresen

    Shootout:

    1. series:
    0:0   Apalkov (LOK)
    0:0   Kovalchuk (SKA)
    2. series:
    0:0   Konkov (LOK)
    0:1   Panarin (SKA)
    3. series:
    1:1   Kronwall (LOK)
    1:1   Cervenka (SKA)
    4. series:
    1:1   Panarin (SKA)
    1:1   Kronwall (LOK)
    5. series:
    1:1   Kovalchuk (SKA)
    2:1   Kronwall (LOK)

    Lokomotiv Yaroslavl: Sanford (Kolesnik)- Kronwall, Yakovlev, Averin, Novotny, Plotnikov- Holos, Vasiliev, Konkov, Apalkov, Thornberg- Lyubushkin, Vishnevskiy, Platt, Sprukts, Kapustin- Gorokhov, Galimov, Grachyov, Korshkov, Kartaev
    SKA St. Petersburg: Salak (Ivannikov)- Kalinin, Yudin, Kovalchuk, Ericsson, Barabanov- Y Alexandrov, Kuteikin, Panarin, Tikhonov, Dadonov- Chudinov, Belov, Thoresen, Martensson, Cervenka- Khafizullin, Ermakov, Ponikarovskiy, Kadeikin, Ketov
    Referees: Vyacheslav Bulanov, Konstantin Olenin, Sergey Morozov, Ivan Sazonov
    Attendance: 9000