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SKA St. Petersburg – Torpedo 6:3 (end) | SKA St. Petersburg – Torpedo 1:2 (end)
final
SKA St. Petersburg
1:2 (1:2, 0:0, 0:0)
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Saturday 28.02.2015, 15:00 • The Saint Petersburg Ice Palace • KHL
     
    There's the final buzzer, and HC Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod have made it a tied 1:1 series with a 2:1 away victory against SKA Saint Petersburg! They were tactically stronger than SKA, and fully deserve their victory. Evgeniy Mozer and Arryom Blazhievskiy struck for the victors, with Roman Rukavishnikov replying for SKA. Thanks for following the game with us, and see you again soon for more thrilling KHL action! (01:14:37)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:55
    The final seconds are now here, and Torpedo are taking away a very valuable victory away 2:1!
     
    59:08
    And goaltender Mikko Koskinen has now been pulled for the extra skater! It's their final roll of the dice!
     
    58:17
    SKA have now called a timeout! They have to come up with a master plan as Torpedo are so far standing firm!
     
    57:25
    Less than three minutes remain already. so little time is left for SKA to equalise! They have to force the issue!
     
    54:40
    Wojtech Wolski twists around the net to the right post, and his deflected wraparound is caught by Mikko Koskinen. Torpedo are doing a great job of keeping the puck out of their zone, and in turn seriously frustrating their opponents!
     
    53:00
    The puck is set back to the point, Andrey Kuteikin wrists with serious power, and with his stick Ivan Kasutin somehow keeps it out! He can expect to be a very busy man now as time begins to run down!
     
    50:51
    Ilya Kovalchuk wrists directly into Ivan Kasutin's midriff from the blue line, and Torpedo are back at full strength. SKA can't get set up in Torpedo's zone for a prolonged amount of time, and despite all their pressure aren't creating many chances!
     
    48:41
    And another penalty has been called against Torpedo, they can't keep doing this! And this is a really silly one, as they have been caught with having too many men on the ice!
     
    46:41
    Evgeniy Ketov shows a remarkable show of speed here and he's earned a vital SKA powerplay, as for hooking Torpedo's Sergey Bernatskiy has been called
     
    46:11
    Mikko Koskinen crouches down glove side, catches the puck and comfortably holds on. He has been solid enough for SKA after conceding those two early goals in the first period
     
    44:36
    Torpedo commit icing. So little is being created by SKA at the moment, it isn't hard for Torpedo to clear their lines when the puck does roll near towards their net
     
    43:34
    Shipachyov! Vadim Shipachyov is almost through one on one, however when pulling to the left he loses control of the puck and it comes to nothing!
     
    41:38
    Here's a rather strange moment, as the net falls directly on top of Mikko Koskinen capturing him in it! That was odd to look at!
     
    40:21
    As the third and vital period begins, Torpedo come back to full strength again. SKA have only one period left to score again, and Torpedo are very solid at the back today!
     
    40:01
    Start of 3rd period.
     
    Statistics after the opening 40 minutes:

    Shots: 35-30
    Shots on target: 21-19
    Faceoffs: 19-14
    Hits: 19-22
    Penalty minutes: 4-8
     
    40:00
    2nd period finished.
     
    39:51
    The second period is now drawing to a close, and SKA are still down by one as they can't get their game together in the attack!
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 13. Rukavishnikov (Ketov) – 8. Mozer (Kazionov), 10. Blazhievskiy (Malevich, Stolyarov)

    SKA St. Petersburg: Koskinen (Ezhov)- Kalinin, Rukavishnikov, Kovalchuk, Ericsson, Cervenka- Y Alexandrov, Kuteikin, Ketov, Shipachyov, Dadonov- Chudinov, N Belov, Thoresen, Martensson, Tikhonov- Ermakov, Yudin, Burdasov, Kablukov, Khokhryakov
    Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod: Kasutin (Biryukov)- Hietanen, Pepelyaev, Galuzin, Filatov, Krasnoslobodtsev- Blazhievskiy, Bernatskiy, Wolski, Salminen, Immonen- Alyaev, Malevich, Stolyarov, Mozer, Dmitriy Kazionov- Makarov, Denis Kazionov, Savinainen, Dvurechenskiy, Potapov
    Referees: Vyacheslav Bulanov, Konstantin Olenin, Sergey Misyur, Stanislav Raming
    Attendance: 12336