KHL
Salavat Yulaev – Jokerit 0:2 (end)
final
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
0:2 (0:1, 0:0, 0:1)
Jokerit Helsinki
Wednesday 04.02.2015, 15:00 • Ufa Arena • KHL
     
    59:57
    Goal for Jokerit!
    That's it now, it is Jokerit's day! PETTERI WIRTANEN takes up the puck at neutral ice, and with ease hits the empty net! It's 0:2! Assists- Atte Ohtamaa and Nico Kapanen
     
    58:53
    Goaltender Leland Irving has duly been pulled for the extra skater! It's now or never for the desperate Salavat!
     
    58:53
    Ilkka Heikkinen drifting to the left lets rip, and near post Riku Helenius isn't going to let that one pass him. And with already less than two minutes remaining Salavat have taken a timeout!
     
    56:19
    Syomin! Dmitriy Syomin, steaming down on to the doorstep, thrashes at the juicy rebound falling out, and he contrives to hit only the top of the bar! Jokerit are being saved by miracles time and time again!
     
    53:51
    The puck is flashed into the crease from the left flank, and with Salavat sticks digging away for it Riku Helenius gets something on it with his right toe! What do Salavat have to do to buy a goal!
     
    47:22
    The hosts have burst their own bubble now though! For a completely needless call of having too many men on the ice Salavat are soon going on the penalty kill! Forward Evgeniy Skachkov will sit this one out for his team
     
    47:19
    A thunderous slap shot from the point cannons into Riku Helenius's right post! It's simply crazy what is going on inside Jokerit's zone, the pressing is immense at all angles of the ice!
     
    45:36
    For an ensuing penalty in that play Salavat have been handed a vital man's advantage, as Jokerit's Niko Peltola has been punished for holding
     
    45:31
    Pihlstrom! Just how didn't he score, what a gaping opportunity! The puck pops out to the doorstep, and with Riku Helenius out of position Antti Pilhstrom thrashes it wide of the right hand post! The fans are up in arms about that!
     
    40:31
    Wow, almost immediately after the starting whistle we have a fight on our hands! Salavat's Dmitriy Syomin drops the gloves with Tommi Huhtala of Jokerit, and to the Ufa Arena's delight it looks as though their man came out on top!
     
    37:26
    Another episode of pinball erupts on Jokerit's crease, and floundering around stick side Riku Helenius shuffles it out of the crease with bodies flying everywhere around him!
     
    30:30
    And that is exactly the case, as the referees wave it a no goal. That is a sign though of just how close Salavat are getting to that elusive equaliser!
     
    30:30
    On a goalmouth scramble by the left hand post Salavat scramble the puck over the line! However it does seem as though the whistle was blown before it crawled in!
     
    26:03
    Hagman! Out of nothing Jokerit were gifted a glorious chance to make it two! Salavat cough up the puck at their own blue line, Niklas Hagman is in three on one, and he can't beat Leland Irving from point blank range!
     
    23:36
    Ilkka Heikkinen jinks around his covering markers to the high slot, wrists with strength, and the netminder brilliantly deflects it up and out of play! Salavat are coming closer!
     
    22:51
    Jokerit are getting in some serious penalty trouble, they can't keep out of the box! The extended Salavat powerplay continues as Ryan Gunderson has been found guilty of delaying the game!
     
    21:56
    And it's now going to be a Salavat five on three, what a chance this is for them to get on the board! Jokerit defenceman Atte Ohtamaa has almost poked the eyes out of a Salavat player directly under the referee's nose!
     
    20:51
    A second penalty in a row against Jokerit has been signalled here, and it's against forward Petteri Wirtanen for tripping his opponent up
     
    13:51
    Hartikainen! Jokerit poorly turnover the puck deep inside the own zone, Kirill Kolstov's attempt is well stopped by Riku Helenius, and on the rebound from Teemu Hartikainen the netminder lays on his back as to stop it from rolling over!
     
    08:24
    The referee has his arm up and this time it's for a Jokerit offence, as for hooking Tomi Maki has been handed a two minute minor
     
    04:03
    However immediately it could, and should, have been a tied game! With his defence nowhere Riku Helenius watches Arturs Kulda's wrister smack off his right hand post! He was helpless there!
     
    03:52
    Goal for Jokerit!
    It's the high flying Finnish visitors who make the breakthrough! A huge rebound off a slapper from distance falls on to the doorstep, and TOMI HUHTALA roofs the puck in! Powerplay goal and it's 0:1! Assists- Ryan Gunderson and Niko Kapanen
     
    02:59
    We already have the first penalty of the day and it's gone against Salavat Yulaev, as forward Alexander Mereskin has been called for tripping while attacking
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 4. Huhtala (Gunderson, Kapanen), 60. Wirtanen (Ohtamaa, Kapanen)

    Salavat Yulaev Ufa: Irving (Sokhatskiy)- Kulda, Heikkinen, Khlystov, Tolpeko, Glukhov- Zubarev, Vishnevskiy, Makarov, Syomin, Hartikainen- Koltsov, Kutuzov, Pihlstrom, Kaygorodov, Skachkov- Golovanov, Mereskin, Dubrovskiy, Mitrofanov
    Jokerit Helsinki: Helenius (Karlsson)- Vaananen, Gunderson, Hagman, Kapanen, Huhtala- Korpikari, Todd, Wirtanen, Rita, Sallinen- Ohtamaa, Peltola, Moses, Maki, Omark- Ben-Amor, Sillanpaa, Poysti
    Referees: Vyacheslav Bulanov, Konstantin Olenin, Alexander Zakharenkov, Alexander Sadovnikov
    Attendance: 7080