KHL
Avtomobilist – SKA St. Petersburg 1:5 (end)
final
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
1:5 (0:3, 0:1, 1:1)
SKA St. Petersburg
Thursday 11.12.2014, 15:00 • KRK Uralets • KHL
     
    The final buzzer has now sounded, and SKA Saint Petersburg have claimed a classy 5:1 victory on the road against Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg! They were dominant from start to finish, and didn't come about any problems whatsoever. Vadim Shipachyov, Artemiy Panarin, Patrick Thoresen, Anton Burdasov and Evgeniy Ketov all struck, with Ilya Arkalov grabbing Avtomobilist's consolation. Thanks for following the game with us, and see you again soon for more pulsating KHL action! (17:21:35)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:46
    With the puck flying from one end to another with no real attempts on goal being seen the final seconds have arrived, and SKA are cruising to a well needed 5:1 in Yekaterinburg!
     
    55:29
    Home defenceman Nikita Tryamkin lurks back at the point, flashes in a slapshot, and with no one getting any sort of touch on it Mikko Koskinen comfortably pushes it out of danger
     
    54:18
    Avtomobilist commit icing. Both sets of players are visibly playing out time now, there really is no intrigue left at all in this one!
     
    53:10
    Already time is ticking by with the hosts running out of ideas, whereas SKA look as though they can improve at any needed moment! They have shown what they are made of today!
     
    51:03
    SKA are very cleverly keeping possession and in the process killing the game, the KRK Uralets is not the loudest of arenas at the moment!
     
    48:33
    Eduard Lewandowski beats his opponent for pace racing away on the left flank, fires in on net, and Mikko Koskinen does his confidence some good flicking it up and out of play
     
    48:10
    The win has to be safe for SKA now, they won't be willing to throw away a four goal lead with so little time left!
     
    46:31
    Goal for SKA!
    That was just what the visitors needed! EVGENIY KETOV is off balance closing in on the right, and his wrister still has too much pace on it for Igor Ustinskiy! It's 1:5! Assists- Vadim Shipachyov
     
    45:45
    Ilya Kovalchuk blocker side does a full 360 from distance, still manages to get an effort away, and a defender looks to block it before it can get to the netminder. SKA have to be careful not to lose their way having conceded!
     
    44:12
    Goal for Avtomobilist!
    Out of nothing the hosts have got on the board! With Mikko Koskinen completely unsighted ILYA ARKALOV tries his luck from the left faceoff circle, and it flies all the way through and in! It's 1:4! Assists- Nikita Tryamkin
     
    43:51
    Mikhnov! That was surely Avtomobilist's best opportunity of the day! Alexey Mikhnov tricks his way down the right wing, however from point blank range he fails to lift the puck over Mikko Koskinen with the backhand!
     
    43:15
    We can indeed inform you by the way that Avtomobilist goaltender Jakub Kovar has been pulled, with young KHL debutant Igor Ustinskiy taking his place!
     
    41:18
    Mikko Koskinen is the first goalkeeper to make a save in the frame, as on his knees blocker side he does well to solidly field a low teasing wrist shot up close
     
    41:10
    The third and deciding period has begun! Avtomobilist have a seriously high mountain to climb, and they have to rely on SKA collapsing!
     
    40:01
    Start of 3rd period.
     
    Statistics after the first two periods:

    Shots: 31-35
    Shots on target: 16-23
    Faceoffs: 11-19
    Hits: 17-11
    Penalty minutes: 2-4
     
    40:00
    2nd period finished.
     
    39:47
    The Avtomobilist head coach can be seen hanging his head in anguish on the bench, his team are going down horribly today! And the second period is drawing to its close, with SKA having their opponents exactly where they want them!
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 45. Arkalov (Tryamkin) – 1. Shipachyov (p.s.), 11. Panarin (Shipachyov), 11. Thoresen (Martensson, Cervenka), 39. Burdasov (Kadeikin, Kablukov), 47. Ketov (Shipachyov)

    Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg: Kovar (Ustinskiy)- Viklund, Lepisto, Polushaj, Popov, Lazarev- Metlyuk, Antonov, Bumagin, Rybakov, Simakov- Loginov, Gusev, Mikhnov, Lewandowski, Nesterov- Tryamkin, Zhuravlyov, Komarov, Arkalov, Gareev
    SKA St. Petersburg: Koskinen (Ivannikov)- Chudinov, A Belov, Kovalchuk, Ericsson, Ponikarovskiy- Y Alexandrov, Kuteikin, Panarin, Shipachyov, Ketov- Kalinin, Rukavishnikov, Thoresen, Martensson, Cervenka- Ermakov, N Belov, Burdasov, Kadeikin, Kablukov
    Referees: Alexey Belov, Roman Schenyov, Eduard Metalnikov, Alexander Sirotkin
    Attendance: 5570