KHL
SKA St. Petersburg – Ak Bars 1:5 (end)
final
SKA St. Petersburg
1:5 (0:2, 1:1, 0:2)
Ak Bars Kazan
Monday 09.02.2015, 17:30 • Ice Palace of Saint Petersburg • KHL
     
    There is the final buzzer, and Ak Bars Kazan have taken SKA Saint Petersburg to town 6:1 away! The score doesn't reflect the game, however Ak Bars were the more clinical. Oscar Moller, Sheldon Brookbank, Mikhail Varnakov and Petr Vrana with a double struck for the victors, with Evgeniy Dadonov replying for SKA. Thanks for following the game with us, and see you again soon for more thrilling KHL action! (19:55:09)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:59
    Ak Bars have the puck in the net for their sixth, but no! They didn't score in time, so they do indeed take away a thumping 5:1 triumph from their travels!
     
    58:50
    A couple of efforts were dumped in from the blue line, and the goalkeeper has no trouble in making the saves as Ak Bars come back to full strength. They have been so effective today!
     
    57:45
    Defenceman Andrey Kuteikin skates back to the blue line, lashes it through traffic building up on the crease, and Anders Nilsson comfortably takes it in
     
    56:50
    The penalties keep on coming! SKA's Roman Cervenka got his helmet knocked off, and Sheldon Brookbank of the visitors has been penalised for roughing
     
    55:20
    Despite the lopsided scoreline you have to give the home crowd credit, as they are continuing to get behind their team! It's going to be a four on four game for now, as Patrick Thoresen and Mikhail Glukhov for roughing against each other
     
    53:33
    Goal for Ak Bars!
    It really isn't SKA's day today! With the defence missing PETR VRANA is free one on one, and he goes five hole on the goaltender! It's 1:5! Assists- Vasiliy Tokranov and Sergey Kostitsyn
     
    53:14
    Cervenka! That was a seriously good chance to make it a real contest! Roman Cervenka cleans up the loose change on the tip of the slot, and he's denied by an amazing Anders Nilsson glove save!
     
    52:45
    Thoresen! Patrick Thoresen outmuscles his opponent stick side, wrists with feeling, and Anders Nilsson is solid fielding it!
     
    50:28
    It's another missed opportunity for SKA however, and their opponents are back at full strength. They are running out of chances to give Ak Bars a fright heading into the closing stages!
     
    48:28
    Again a penalty has been called, things are getting rough here now! Ak Bars' Alexander Burmistrov is the next to be penalised, this time hooking
     
    47:55
    Ak Bars work the puck to a promising position on the left, it's slapped in with force, and Mikko Koskinen sweeps it up into his glove
     
    47:05
    Not much was created in SKA's zone during that time though, and they have their full quota of players on the ice. They have to get going soon, as time begins to run down!
     
    45:05
    The referee is on his way to the penalty box, and he sends SKA's Patrick Thoresen there too for cross checking. The home side could do without that now!
     
    44:23
    Vadim Shipachyov powers down the left wing, pulls all the way around the net, and it bullied out of the way when shaping to shoot! That looked promising for a second!
     
    41:51
    SKA have a huge job on their hands if they are to get back into things, Ak Bars are so clinical today and are picking their opponents off!
     
    40:42
    Goal for Ak Bars!
    SKA are simply all over the place at the back! Roman Rukavishnikov terribly turns over the puck by his own net, and MIKHAIL VARNAKOV backhands in to the right of the crease! It's 1:4! Assists- Justin Azevedo
     
    40:01
    Start of 3rd period.
     
    Statistics after the first two periods:

    Shots: 25-29
    Shots on target: 16-15
    Faceoffs: 22-16
    Hits: 25-26
    Penalty minutes: 4-18
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 26. Dadonov (Kuteikin, Panarin) – 4. Moller (Kotsitsyn, Varnakov), 8. Vrana (Kostitsyn, Mirnov), 34. Brookbank (Moller), 41. Varnakov (Azevedo), 54. Vrana (Tokranov, Kostitsyn)

    SKA St. Petersburg: Koskinen (Ezhov)- Kalinin, Rukavishnikov, Kovalchuk, Ericsson, Cervenka- Y Alexandrov, Kuteikin, Panarin, Shipachyov, Dadonov- Chudinov, N Belov, Thoresen, Martensson, Tikhonov- Ermakov, Yudin, Khokhryakov, Kablukov, Ketov
    Ak Bars Kazan: Nilsson (Garipov)- Rylov, Denisov, Lukoyanov, Svitov, Koltsov- Korneev, Nikulin, Moller, Azevedo, Varnakov- Torkanov, Brookbank, Kostitsyn, Vrana, Mirnov- Paigin, Obukhov, Burmistrov, Glukhov
    Referees: Roman Gofman, Anatoily Zakharov, Dmitriy Sivov, Sergey Shelyanin