Pucks hail in Ufa and Nizhnekamsk

23 Dec 2011 | Regular season | Sports Palace Kazakhstan
Barys Astana	5-1	Dynamo Moskva
Periods: Shots: 0-0 (2-10) 4-0 (6-17) 1-1 (5-7)
Referees: Alexei Vasiliev, Roman Gofman | Spectators: 3401

Dinamo began their trip in the East with the game in Kazakhstan against Barys Astana. In the first period Russian players outshot the home team 10-2, but can't score at all. The second was a nightmare for Dinamo. Barys made 6 shots and scored 4 times, two times Alexander Yeryomenko was beat by Vadim Krasnoslobodtsev and Konstantin Romanov. At 31:02 Alexey Volkov changed him and also lost two pucks from Kevin Dallman, who was hot during a 1:19 span. In the third Roman Starchenko made it 5-0 in power-play. Leonid Komarov scored a lonely goal at 49:58 and it was only one thing that Dinamo managed to do. Barys made only 13 shots, when Vitaly Yeremeyev stopped 33 shots.

23 Dec 2011 | Regular season | KRK Uralets
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	1-2	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Periods: Shots: 1-1 (7-8) 0-0 (8-9) 0-1 (5-8)
Referees: Sergei Feofanov, Serbey Belyaev | Spectators: 2500

In Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist tried to stop their 7 games losing streak against Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod. At 3:34 Torpedo's d-man Evgeny Varlamov scored with a quick wrist shot on a pass from Martin Thörnberg. Three minutes later Avtomobilist managed to tie the game. Denis Osipov scored with a powerful shot from the blue line in power-play. The game-winning goal was scored in the third, when Ilya Krikunov scored from the goalie zone after a won face-off in the attacking zone.  Torpedo's goalie Vital Koval stopped 19 shots and led his team to a win.

23 Dec 2011 | Regular season | Ufa Arena
Salavat Yulayev Ufa	7-4	Sibir Novosibirsk
Periods: Shots: 2-1 (15-6) 3-1 (13-5) 2-2 (11-9)
Referees: Vladimir Nalivayko, Roman Schenyov | Spectators: 7950

A great battle was played in Ufa. Salavat Yulaev began the game very aggressive and in the first made 15 shots to Brückler's net and scored twice with Denis Platonov and Igor Radulov goals. It was the first goal for Platonov in the Ufa jersey. Sibir answered with Alexander Suglobov, who tied the game at that moment. In the second Salavat went on dominating on the ice Alexander Radulov, Igor Mirnov, Miroslav Blatak made it 5-1 at 35:42. Early in the second Jori Lehterä after a pass from Kirill Safronov cut Ufa's lead a little bit.  Alexander Suglobov added two goals in the third to his deal in the first and made a hat-trick at 43:45. But Ufa decided not to have a nervous ending and scored twice in the middle of the third with Alexander Radulov and Miroslav Blatak goals. Salavat Yulaev made 39 shots during three periods, from which only 32 were stopped. Sibir lost the 9th games in a row on the road, and it will be difficult to snap with that streak on Sunday in Kazan.

"This game returned us to the time of Bykov-Zakharkin. Our guys played with a great pleasure," Salavat Yulaev head coach Vener Safin said to their site.

"In the third we showed our teeth, but Salavat Yulaev had some dentists, who pulled those teeth," Sibir head coach Dmitry Yushkevich said to Salavat's official site.

23 Dec 2011 | Regular season | Tatneft Arena
Ak Bars Kazan	3-2	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Periods: Shots: 1-0 (11-13) 1-2 (12-6) 1-0 (17-3)
Referees: Sergei Kulakov, Alexei Radovin | Spectators: 4500

Ak Bars won a 5th straight game after beating Metallurg Novokuznetsk 3-2. Niklas Bergfors set up a pass to Konstantin Glazachev, who at 12:36 opened the scoring. It was the first point of Bergfors in KHL. Early in the second Danis Zaripov scored his 10th goal of the season. It also looked good for Ak Bars but then Metallurg used a 28 second span as well as they could. At 27:44 Sergei Brylin made it 2-1 with redirecting the flight of the puck near the net. 14 seconds after this Dmitry Kagarlitsky gained a two-minute penalty for tripping. And 14 seconds again after penalty Andrei Kuzmin scored a shorthanded goal and tied the game. The game was close not to end in regulation but with 3 seconds remaining in the third Alexei Morozov gave Ak Bars a win with a high wrist shot.
Teemu Lassila stopped 37 shots, when his opponent Petri Vehanen made 20 saves.

23 Dec 2011 | Regular season | Ice Hockey Center 2004 Chekhov
Vityaz Chekhov	3-1	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
Periods: Shots: 1-0 (12-11) 1-0 (9-12) 1-1 (8-13)
Referees: Vladimir Baluska, Eduard Odins | Spectators: 3100

Vityaz Chekhov played another good game when they hadn't any Canadian tough-guys in the line-up. Vityaz scored only in the beginning of the periods, they did in it the first with a Artemy Panarin goal, they did in it the second when Mikhail Zhukov scored after a pass from Panarin, and they did it in the third with the second Panarin goal of the night. Only Alexander Seluyanov from Yugra answered the Vityaz players at 44:57. Vityaz snapped Yugra's 6-games winning streak and had a chance to move from the last spot in the West. Vityaz goalie Matt Dalton stopped 35 shots this night. Next game Vityaz will play against their arch-rivals Avangard Omsk and the fans will be looking for a great fight.

23 Dec 2011 | Regular season | SCC Arena
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	4-6	Amur Khabarovsk
Periods: Shots: 1-4 (7-17) 2-0 (15-4) 1-2 (13-8)
Referees: Konstantin Olenin, Andrei Rogachyov | Spectators: 5000

Amur started with a great first period when for 7 minutes they scored 4 times: Mikko Mäenpää, Petr Vrana twice and Sergei Plotnikov are the authors of this success. But they went in the second only with a 3-goal lead; Kirill Knyazev at 11:31 used a power-play chance. Neftekhimik rally from a 3-goal deficit and tied the game at 49:16 with David Nosek, Maxim Pestushko and Knyazev goals. But the score 4-4 remained for only 1 minute 24 seconds before Martin Ruzicka gave Amur a one-goal lead. Amur got an empty-net goal with 1:34 remaining to salt away with a 6-4 victory in Nizhnekamsk.

23 Dec 2011 | Regular season | Ice Palace Cherepovets
Severstal Cherepovets	1-4	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Periods: Shots: 1-1 (15-9) 0-1 (7-9) 0-2 (8-9)
Referees: Alexander Cherenkov, Yuri Tsyplakov | Spectators: -

Metallurg Magnitogorsk won a 6th game in a row on the road against Severstal. In the middle of the first Metallurg took the lead after an Enver Lisin goal, who again was in national team last week and again played pretty bad. But in the end of the first Ruslan Nurtdinov tied the game, but Severstal can't do anything more this night. Oleg Tverdovsky, who was on a waiver from Salavat Yulaev, scored his first goal in Magnitogorsk after a pass from another former Ufa player Maxim Sushinsky. Two goals in the third led Metallurg to an easy victory in Cherepovets.

23 Dec 2011 | Regular season | LDS Sokolniki Moscow
Spartak Moskva	3-1	Avangard Omsk
Periods: Shots: 1-0 (9-7) 1-1 (6-15) 1-0 (9-9)
Referees: Vyacheslav Bulanov | Spectators: 1900

Spartak continued their home series with a game against the third team in the East, Avangard. With new head coach Andrei Sidorenko the Moscow team began to play more concentrated, and for the third game in a row played a good first half. At 4:46 Alexander Yunkov opened the scoring with a nice back-hand after a pass from Marcel Hossa. The Moscow team started the second with a two-man advantage, but couldn't convert it. One minute later the other brother Mikhail Yunkov made it 2-0 after finding the way how to beat the puck with a stick in the net's traffic. Then Avangard made a nice move; Yegor Averin gave Cervenka a nice pass, but the Czech player didn't hit the puck. With 17 seconds remaining in the second Alexander Perezhogin launched from the board and Alexander Popov played as the screen behind Ivan Kasutin and redirected puck under his shoulder. It was a result of grabbing possession in the second, in the first minutes of the third Avangard still dominated on the ice. But Spartak this time played better in the third than in the games against HC Lev and Yugra. Spartak closed the game with an empty-goal from Alexei Zavarukhin. It was the first win for Spartak against Avangard on home ice in KHL.

"It was time for us to win, we felt good, played pretty well tonight. We're also on the road for a playoff-spot," Spartak d-man Andre Benoit said.

"I want to congratulate our club, our fans on the 65 years jubilee. We want to make a gift before this day by winning against Yugra, but… Before the game I said to my players that we played in a team with great traditions and should be proud of it," Spartak head coach Andrei Sidorenko said.

 

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