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25 Dec 2011  |  Regular season  |  KRK Uralets
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	2-4	Dynamo Moskva
Periods: Shots: 0-2 (11-9) 1-0 (9-9) 1-2 (6-18)
Referees: Vladislav Kiselyov, Alexei Belov  |  Spectators: 2900

Avtomobilist lost again, now to Dynamo Moscow, who hasn't won since they beat Vityaz Chekhov in a shootout on December 9. Dynamo opened the scoring at 5:22 with an Artyom Chernov power-play goal. Then Denis Mosalyov used a mistake of the home team d-man Ilya Davydov and made the score 2-0 in favour of Dynamo. In the middle of the second Igor Velichkin redirected Viktor Kostyuchyonok's shot and cut Dynamo's lead. Viktor Kostyuchyonok with a quick wrist shot tied the game early in the third. But Dynamo used a fast counter-attack to grab the lead as Dmitry Pestunov finished it. With 1:15 remaining of the third Sergey Konkov scored a fourth Dynamo goal of the night.

25 Dec 2011  |  Regular season  |  Ufa Arena
Salavat Yulayev Ufa	4-2	Amur Khabarovsk
Periods: Shots: 2-0 (11-8) 0-0 (8-15) 2-2 (9-10)
Referees: Alexander Sergeyev, Ildar Safiullov  |  Spectators: 7950

One of the most interesting games was played in Ufa, where Amur visited. The first game for Sergey Sentyurin in Salavat Yulaev and he scored the first goal of the game at 07:27 after Alexander Radulov's assist. 2:32 later Oleg Saprykin increased Ufa's lead in this game.  In the second Amur outshot Salavat 15-8, but couldn't score at any time, they did it however in the third. Alexei Kopeikin scored in power-play with Denis Platonov in the penalty box for slashing at 48:12. A minute later Alexander Radulov returned the 2-goal lead. Radulov's other and Sergey Plotnikov's goals closed the game 4-2. With the victory, Salavat Yulaev is now three points behind Amur in their division.

25 Dec 2011  |  Regular season  |  Traktor Sport Palace Chelyabinsk
Traktor Chelyabinsk	2-0	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Periods: Shots: 0-0 (15-7) 2-0 (11-6) 0-0 (4-10)
Referees: Vladimir Nalivayko, Roman Schenyov  |  Spectators: 7500

Traktor Chelyabinsk increased their lead over the second team in the East Amur Khabarovsk to 10 points, after blanking Torpedo 2-0. A 34 second span in the second period decided the winner. Firstly, Kontiola set up a pass to Konstantin Panov in a fast counter-attack, who opened the scoring at 25:31. Then Anton Glinkin with a quick shot finished a pass from Anton Burdasov. Traktor overplayed Torpedo in the first two period, shots were 26-13. In the third Torpedo tried to make a come-back, but they improved the statistics for Michael Garnett, who stoned 23 shots and made a third shutout of the season. Traktor won for the fourth game in a row.

25 Dec 2011  |  Regular season  |  Tatneft Arena
Ak Bars Kazan	3-1	Sibir Novosibirsk
Periods: Shots: 1-0 (10-5) 2-0 (13-12) 0-1 (8-13)
Referees: Konstantin Olenin, Vladimir Baluska  |  Spectators: 3650

Sibir hasn't won on the road since October 27, when they blank Avtomobilist 2-0, and they didn't win tonight. It was a game of Oleg Petrov, whose two goals at 01:26 and 35:13 helped Ak Bars to have a scoring advantage the whole game. Later in the second Danis Zaripov in power-play made it 3-0 after a pass from Alexei Morozov. The hottest Sibir player, Alexander Suglobov, scored a lonely away team goal at 53:59. Ak Bars won a 6th straight game.

25 Dec 2011  |  Regular season  |  Ice Hockey Center 2004 Chekhov
Vityaz Chekhov	1-2	Avangard Omsk
Periods: Shots: 0-0 (7-11) 0-1 (14-11) 1-1 (5-14)
Referees: Sergei Karabanov, Alexander Cherenkov  |  Spectators: 3260

Before the last game against Avangard of the season Vityaz have only one Canadian tough-guy, who hasn't been banned by the league, it was Nik Tarnasky. But he didn't help his team in any way neither with the scoring goals nor with increasing team spirit by fights. In the middle of the game Avangard forward Igor Volkov opened the scoring with a play near Vityaz's net, where he added a puck after a shot from Sergei Kalinin. Kalinin made it 2-0 in the third when he received a nice pass from Alexander Nesterov. Vityaz managed to score only one time when Alexander Fedoseyev was first on the rebound at 47:29. It was a first win for Raimo Summanen after his return to Omsk.

"I'm happy with the first win after the return. I want to notice our 4th line, which played well," Avangard head coach Raimo Summanen said to Sport-Express.

25 Dec 2011  |  Regular season  |  SCC Arena
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	3-2	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Periods: Shots: 2-1 (11-6) 0-1 (6-11) 1-0 (6-7)
Referees: Alexei Anisimov, Eduard Odins  |  Spectators: 5000

Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk still wants to get into the playoffs, that's why the game against Metallurg Novokuznetsk was very important. Neftekhimik grabbed a fast 1-goal lead with Yegor Milovzorov's 10th goal of the season at 0:55. In the middle of the first Oskar Osala made it 2-0 after a pass from Yevgeny Korolyov. 2 minutes later Metallurg began the comeback when Dmitry Kagarlitsky scored. Andrei Kuzmin and Dmitry Megalinsky were also on this play. Early in the second Kuzmin tied the game and Kagarlitsky was one of the assistants. The game-winning goal happened in the middle of the third when Oleg Kvasha closed the game 3-2 at 51:51.

"We allowed two goals, but they weren't mistakes, they were accidents. In the third we were lucky when Kvasha took a chance to score being alone with the goalie," Neftekhimik head coach Vladimir Golubovich said to their official site.

"Unfortunately some of our players began to celebrate Christmas. We lost because of the mistakes of these players," Metallurg head coach Anatoly Yemelin said.

25 Dec 2011  |  Regular season  |  Ice Palace Cherepovets
Severstal Cherepovets	1-0 SO	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
Periods: Shots: 0-0 (12-10) 0-0 (13-11) 0-0 (4-9) 0-0 (2-3) 1-0 ( - )
Referees: Artyom Zakharov, Sergei Semonov  |  Spectators: 3335

The most boring game of the day was played in Cherepovets where Severstal faced Yugra. There were only four penalties and no goals during regulation. Both goalies earned shutouts; Vasily Koshechkin a second time of the season with 33 stopped shots, his opponent from Yugra Mikhail Biryukov a fourth shutout with 31 stoned shots. Only the shootout series defined the winner of the game. Severstal's foreigners Mikko Lehtonen and Jozef Straka did it well and led their team to a victory.

25 Dec 2011  |  Regular season  |  LDS Sokolniki Moscow
Spartak Moskva	1-2	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Periods: Shots: 0-0 (13-7) 0-1 (6-7) 1-1 (15-10)
Referees: Alexei Vasiliv, Sergei Gusev  |  Spectators: 2800

What a metamorphosis that happened with Spartak when Andrei Sidorenko became the Head Coach. No one could predict that in the first period of the game against Metallurg Magnitogorsk Spartak outshot the visitors 15-7, created several goal chances, but weren't able to score. The same in the second, but in one counter-attack Oleg Tverdovsky, who could move to Spartak after being on waivers from Salavat Yulaev gave Metallurg a 1-goal lead at 25:04. Metallurg tried to freeze Spartak's attack with taking a time-out in the end of the second. But in the third, the Moscow team still dominated on the ice; Roman Lyuduchin with a back hand shot in front of the net tied the game at 45:11. But 43 seconds later a Spartak d-man lost Sushinsky in front of the net and he was first on the rebound from the board. The main hero of this game is Metallurg's goalie Ari Ahonen, who stopped 33 shots and led his team to a 7th straight game. Spartak Moscow after this loss didn't lose a chances to get into playoffs and it seems that if they will play in the same way in new 2012 year they have all chances to be in top-8 in the West.

"It's always good to come to Sokolniki, to the club, which gave you a ticket to a big hockey, and it's always good to win here," Metallurg head coach Fyodor Kanareikin said.

"We created so many goal chances, but couldn't score, and allowed so strange goals," Andrei Sidoreneko said.

 

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