KHL
SKA St. Petersburg – CSKA 2:1 (after OT)
final/OT
SKA St. Petersburg
2:1 (1:0, 0:1, 0:0 - 1:0)
CSKA Moscow
Sunday 05.04.2015, 17:00 • The Saint Petersburg Ice Palace • KHL
     
    That amazing overtime goal does mean that SKA Saint Petersburg have taken the sixth game of this KHL Gagarin Cup Western Conference final series 2:1 against HC CSKA Moscow, meaning that the series is all tied up at 3:3! SKA dug deep today, and showed their true quality in the end. Patrick Thoresen netted the overtime winner after Ilya Kovalchuk had scored for SKA in normal time, while only Stephane Da Costa could hit the target for CSKA. Thanks for following the game with us, and see you again soon for more thrilling KHL action! (22:21:37)
     
    Game over.
     
    69:01
    Goal for SKA!
    Unbelievable! We're going to a game seven! The CSKA defence gets caught up behind their own net, the puck spins out to PATRICK THORESEN on the crease, and he clinically fires home underneath the goalkeeper's blocker! It's 2:1! Assists- Ilya Kablukov and Anton Belov
     
    67:08
    SKA can't hold the puck with any success at the moment, and their goaltender Mikko Koskinen is having some dangerous efforts with which to deal with! They need to get something going!
     
    65:21
    The hosts do now finally have some sort of attack though, as their captain Ilya Kovalchuk from pinned up against the right boards has his wrister taken in by Kevin Lalande
     
    63:48
    Away forward Igor Makarov has some room on the right faceoff circle, he dumps in a rising wrister, and Mikko Koskinen gloves nicely. CSKA have started overtime the brighter, with SKA nervy so far
     
    62:05
    CSKA's Alexander Radulov steams down the right wing on a breakaway, however before he can get an attempt away a SKA defenceman gets back in time to put him off
     
    60:04
    Overtime has begun! Remember that there will be no penalty shots today, as we will keep on playing until someone finds the net however long that may take
     
    60:01
    Overtime began.
     
    Statistics after the initial 60 minutes of play:

    Shots: 57-43
    Shots on target: 24-24
    Faceoffs: 26-26
    Hits: 22-11
    Penalty minutes: 6-37
     
    60:00
    3rd period finished.
     
    59:47
    Radulov! That could have been that right there! Alexander Radulov feeds off a poor SKA giveaway, and from the right his wrister is deflected up and out of play! And with the final seconds already here overtime is indeed coming up!
     
    56:48
    There are now only just over three minutes remaining and still the teams are deadlocked at one apiece here, you can cut the tension with a knife! No one wants to give up a inch!
     
    53:23
    Mikko Koskinen tries to get a good view of the puck with heavy traffic in front of him, and he does manage to catch confidently. A lot of the emphasis will be on both goalkeepers now, with already not that much time remaining!
     
    52:10
    Despite having a full five minutes with a man's advantage SKA did virtually next to nothing during that time, and they will be annoyed to see CSKA come back to full strength
     
    47:10
    CSKA are furious, but yet another penalty has been called against them! SKA's Alexey Ponikarovskiy has been completely floored, and while he is helped off the ice Roman Lyubimov has been smashed with a 5+20 penalty! How this could hurt his team!
     
    47:04
    Having defended excellently during that time CSKA are back at full strength. SKA's powerplay is slow and laborous at times today, and they will need to step that component up
     
    45:04
    The game has been stopped here and it's for a penalty against the visitors, as for a dirty hit forward Igor Grigorenko has been handed a two minute minor
     
    43:25
    It has been a very calm and cautious start to the third period, SKA are seeing more of the puck while CSKA are still dangerous when moving forward
     
    40:08
    Seconds after the third period begun SKA came back to full strength. Any mistake or piece of skill will surely decide the fate of this one, with so much riding on this!
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 9. Kovalchuk (Dadonov, Shipachyov), 70. Thoresen (Kablukov, Belov) – 25. Costa (Bondarev, Hjalmarsson)

    SKA St. Petersburg: Koskinen (Ezhov)- Chudinov, A Belov, Thoresen, Martensson, Kovalchuk- N Belov, Kuteikin, Panarin, Shipachyov, Dadonov- Khafizullin, Rukavishnikov, Burdasov, Ericsson, Cervenka- Yudin, Barabanov, Ponikarovsky, Kablukov, Khokhryakov
    CSKA Moscow: Lalande (Galimov)- Denisov, Zaitsev, Lyubimov, Grigorenko, Radulov- Bondarev, Kiselevich, Mursak, Hjalmarsson, Da Costa- Panin, Egorshev, Korotkov, Zharkov, Volkov- Misharin, Stas, Mamin, Makarov, Kuzmenko
    Referees: Alexey Anisimov, Konstantin Olenin, Dmitriy Sivov, Sergey Shelyanin
    Attendance: 12330