KHL
Cherepovets – SKA St. Petersburg 2:4 (end)
final
Severstal Cherepovets
2:4 (0:1, 1:1, 1:2)
SKA St. Petersburg
Sunday 18.01.2015, 15:00 • Cherepovets Ice Palace • KHL
     
    There indeed is the final buzzer, and SKA Saint Petersburg have been made to work hard for a 4:2 victory over Severstal Cherepovets! They weren't at their best all the time, but went through the gears when they had to. Andrey Kuteikin, Viktor Tikhonov and Roman Cervenka with a double won the game for SKA, with Andreas Thurresson and Evgeniy Mons netting for the hosts. Thanks for following the game with us, and see you again soon for more thrilling KHL action! (17:42:20)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:51
    SKA really have shown their class when it was needed today, and are taking way a hard fought win from Cherepovets 4:2!
     
    59:29
    Goal for SKA!
    That is most certainly that now! VIKTOR TIKHONOV sprints to the empty net, and under pressure from two Severstal defencemen he makes no mistake! It's 2:4! Assists- Alexey Ponikarovskiy
     
    59:07
    With now less than a minute remaining Severstal have taken a well needed timeout, and are going all for it pulling Jakub Stepanek for the extra skater!
     
    58:59
    Urbom! Severstal have to give it their all now! Alexander Urbom opens up on the left flank, slaps with all his might, and Mikko Koskinen in very reliable fashion catches expertly!
     
    58:01
    Goal for SKA!
    Wow, just what more is this game going to throw up! SKA have in true killer's style taken their lead back! ROMAN CERVENKA moves off the right faceoff circle, and brilliantly wrists over the goalkeeper's blocker with Jakub Stepanek caught cold! It's 2:3! Assists- Tony Martensson and Pyotr Khokhryakov
     
    57:04
    The pace is so high now, with both teams going as hard as they can! Severstal are keeping toe to toe with SKA all over the ice, they seriously need the points!
     
    53:53
    The shorthanded away team were the closest to scoring during those two minutes, and they have their full quota of players on the ice again
     
    52:37
    Just how didn't that go in! Unbelievable! Evgeniy Ketov shorthanded powers clean through, looks to have squeezed it under the netminder, but at the last second it's swept off the line!
     
    51:53
    SKA are in danger of capitulating completely here, as another penalty has been taking! Viktor Tikhonov is now the guilty party for tripping, and he has put his team in a real sticky situation!
     
    51:47
    A devilish Evgeniy Dadonov pass by the right hand boards almost sends Artemiy Panarin through one on one, as the latter can't control the puck! He really was all on his own!
     
    49:01
    Dmitriy Kagalrlitskiy sends it back to the point, Ilya Khokhlov drives it in, and after a heavy deflection it drifts up and out of play. Severstal are visibly full of confidence, and they really want to complete the job in normal time!
     
    48:25
    The visitors have almost completely gone to sleep during this frame, and they have to wake up soon with it already being a tied game! Severstal are all over them!
     
    46:25
    Goal for Severstal!
    It's a tied game now! Almost out of nothing Severstal have hit their opponents with an unexpected marker! EVGENIY MONS is left all alone by the tip of the slot, and slightly to the left he makes no mistake! It's 2:2! Assists- Pavel Buchnevich and Ilya Khokhlov
     
    43:54
    The visitors defended with reasonable confidence there, and Severstal have seen another powerplay chance come and go!
     
    42:31
    Mons! Evgeniy Mons is fed showing some silky skills cutting to the crease from the left, and as he looks to slide it under Mikko Koskinen the netminder's body gets in the way! That looked for a second as though it was going to roll in!
     
    41:54
    We have an early third period penalty here and it's once again against SKA, as Swedish forward Jimmie Ericsson has been called for hooking
     
    40:21
    Cervenka! It could, and maybe should, have been 3:1 already! A three on one leaves Roman Cervenka with the goal practically at his mercy to the right of the crease, and he contrives to hit only Jakub Stepanek's closed five hole!
     
    40:04
    The third period has begun! SKA are in the driving seat at 2:1 to the good, but the job is far from done!
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 35. Thuresson (Kazakovtsev, Kovyrshin), 47. Mons (Buchnevich, Khokhlov) – 11. Kuteikin (Chudinov), 24. Cervenka (Khokhryakov), 59. Cervenka (Martensson, Khokhryakov), 60. Tikhonov (Ponikarovskiy)

    Severstal Cherepovets: Stepanek (Smiryagin)- Shinin, Arzamastsev, Trubachyov, Trunyov, Thuresson- Pyett, Khokhlov, Kovyrshin, Kvapil, Kazakovtsev- Stasenko, Urbom, Kagarlitskiy, Mons, Buchnevich- Antropov, Berdnikov, Nikontsev, Monakhov, Dedunov
    SKA St. Petersburg: Koskinen (Shestyorkin)- Chudinov, A Belov, Khokhryakov, Martensson, Cervenka- Kuteikin, Y Alexandrov, Panarin, Shipachyov, Dadonov- N Belov, Rukavishnikov, Ponikarovskiy, Ericsson, Tikhonov- Yudin, Burdasov, Kablukov, Ketov
    Referees: Mikhail Buturlin, Vladislav Kiselyov, Dmitriy Parfyonov, Alexander Sysuyev
    Attendance: 5200