Donbass climbing in Bobrov Division

Amur Khabarovsk gave Ak Bars Kazan a hard fight to the end of their home stint. Jarkko Immonen had opened the score for the guests already at 02:06 but in the end Kazan was lucky to go with a tie into the first intermission when Kirill Petrov made it 2-2 with 11 seconds left to play. In between Alexander Osipov and Igor Ozhiganov had turned around the result for Amur which was clearly dominating in the first 20 minutes. In the following two periods Ak Bars was the slightly better team but after 60 minutes it was still 2-2 and so the game had to go into overtime. There the guests survived a two-minute Amur powerplay after Evgeny Medvedev was sent into the penalty box for holding. In the shootout Alexei Morozov who earlier in this week earned his 1000th career point gained the extra point for AK Bars as the only scorer on both sides.  

It wasn't a high class game but in the very even Chernyshyov Division small things can be decisive at any time. Salavat Yulayev Ufa earned a late but not undeserved 2-0 win away against Sibir Novosibirsk. Only at 45:48 did Denis Parshin earn the guest lead, just seconds after a two-minute penalty against Sibir had ended. When Sibir's Finnish star forward Jori Lehterä twice sat in the penalty box for holding within a couple of minutes, this turned out to be decisive as Ufa used the second opportunity to score their second at 56:17 through Vitaly Proshkin.

Against favourites Traktor Chelyabinsk the Ukranian KHL newcomers Donbass Donetsk ended their home stint with the third win in the third match. Twice American forward Clay Wilson brought Donbass in front but top stars Evgeny Kuznetsov and Andrei Kostitsyn made sure Traktor would take at least a point with them. In the end Swede Fredrik Pettersson won the extra point for Donbass in the shootout. WIth these two points Donetsk now is third in Bobrov Division. Though there is already a huge gap to the two group leaders, they have all chances left to make the playoffs.

Lev Prague once more couldn't stop their terrible negative streak. Against CSKA Moscow they already received their 9th loss in 10 games. In their free fall they now are 6th in Bobrov Division. Only Latvian side Dinamo Riga is worse so far. Twice Igor Radulov and once Mikhail Grabovsky earned a comfortable 3-1 lead for the Russians until 46:32 - Tomas Surovy had cut the lead between. In the ending phase of the match Lev pulled out their goalie for an additional attacker and in powerplay with a 6 vs 4 on the ice again Tomas Surovy brought tension back into the game but CSKA saved their small lead to get the lead in Tarasov Division back from Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.

 

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