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| 27 Feb 2011 | Play-off | 1/8 Final | Neftekhim-Arena | |||||||
| Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk | 3-2 | Avangard Omsk | |||||
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| Referees: Aleksandr Antropov, Vyacheslav Bulanov  |  Spectators: 5500 | |||||||
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| 02:52 | | | home | | | SHG | | | 1-0 | | |  Niklas Persson (Alexei Simakov) | 
| 08:33 | | | away | | | | | 1-1 | | |  Alexander Popov (Anton Kuryanov) | |
| 22:15 | | | home | | | | | 2-1 | | |  Renat Mamashev (Maxim Pestushko) | |
| 27:15 | | | away | | | | | 2-2 | | |  Yegor Averin (Roman Cervenka, Dmitry Vlasenkov) | |
| 37:53 | | | home | | | | | 3-2 | | |  Libor Pivko | 
| Name | G | A | PIM | +/- | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nikolai Belov | | | | | | | | | 3 | |||
 Maxim Berezin | | | | | | | | | ||||
 Sergei Bernatsky | | | | | | | 2 | | | -1 | ||
 Igor Bortnikov | | | | | | | 2 | | | -1 | ||
 Alexander Islamov | | | | | | | | | ||||
 Andrei Ivanov | | | | | | | | | -1 | |||
 Sergei Konkov | | | | | | | | | 1 | |||
 Anton Krysanov | | | | | | | | | 1 | |||
 Yevgeny Lapenkov | | | | | | | | | -1 | |||
 Renat Mamashev | | | 1 | | | | | 2 | | | 1 | |
 Niklas Persson | | | 1 | | | | | | | 1 | ||
 Maxim Pestushko | | | | | 1 | | | | | 1 | ||
 Libor Pivko | | | 1 | | | | | | | 1 | ||
 Igor Polygalov | | | | | | | | | -1 | |||
 Yevgeny Ryasensky | | | | | | | | | -1 | |||
 Yakov Rylov | | | | | | | | | 1 | |||
 Nikita Shchitov | | | | | | | | | -1 | |||
 Alexei Simakov | | | | | 1 | | | | | 2 | ||
 Maxim Yakutsenya | | | | | | | | | -1 | 
| Name | G | A | PIM | +/- | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nicholas Angell | | | | | | | | | ||||
 Yegor Averin | | | 1 | | | | | 2 | | | 1 | |
 Alexei Bondarev | | | | | | | | | ||||
 Roman Cervenka | | | | | 1 | | | | | |||
 Jaromír Jágr | | | | | | | | | -1 | |||
 Alexei Kalyuzhny | | | | | | | | | -1 | |||
 Denis Kulyash | | | | | | | | | -1 | |||
 Anton Kuryanov | | | | | 1 | | | | | 1 | ||
 Andrei Mukhachev | | | | | | | | | ||||
 Vladimir Pervushin | | | | | | | | | -2 | |||
 Andrei Pervyshin | | | | | | | | | -1 | |||
 Nikita Pivtsakin | | | | | | | | | ||||
 Alexander Popov | | | 1 | | | | | | | 1 | ||
 Timofei Shishkanov | | | | | | | | | -2 | |||
 Martin Skoula | | | | | | | 2 | | | |||
 Dmitri Syomin | | | | | | | | | ||||
 Petr Vampola | | | | | | | | | ||||
 Dmitry Vlasenkov | | | | | 1 | | | 2 | | | -1 | |
 Igor Volkov | | | | | | | | | 1 | 
| Name | SA | GA | MIN | % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ivan Kasutin | | | 26 | | | 2 | | | 60:00 | | | 92.31 | 
 Scott Munroe | | | | | | | | | 
| Name | SA | GA | MIN | % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Alexei Kuznetsov | | | | | | | | | ||||
 Karri Rämö | | | 21 | | | 3 | | | 59:00 | | | 85.71 | 
Neftekhimik won 3-2 against Omsk to take the 2-1 lead of the series. Niklas Persson and Renat Mamashev scored for Neftekhimik but both times Avangard tied it. First through Aleksandr Popov and then by Egor Averin. Neftekhimik still got the gamewinner when Libor Pivko scored his first goal of the playoffs at 37:53.
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