Minsk takes lead inTarasov Division

26 Dec 2011  |  Regular season  |  Minsk Arena
Dinamo Minsk	4-2	Atlant Moscow Oblast
Periods: Shots: 3-1 (14-19) 0-1 (5-13) 1-0 (9-11)
Referees: Alexei Radovin, Yakov Deev  |  Spectators: 15086

The Belarusian team snapped Atlant's seven-game winning streak on the road and took the lead in the Tarasov Division. Dinamo Minsk took a quick lead with two goals in the first four minutes. Teemu Laine opened the scoring with a quick wrist shot at 2:59 after a nice pass from Andrei Stas. Then Jeff Platt finished a play that went Mikhalyov-Linglet-Platt. Nikolai Zherdev was first on the rebound and cut the Dinamo lead at 8:53. Atlant gifted the home team a chance to play 5-on-3 when David Petrasek and Andrei Zubarev got two penalty minutes each. Jaroslav Obsut with a snap shot from the blue line made it 3-1. Dinamo Minsk gave the same gift in the second and Nikolai Zherdev made a double at 27:11. In the end of the game Obsut made a nice pass to Alexei Meleshko who was in a goalie zone and overplayed Konstantin Barulin. Kevin Lalande played another great game stopping 41 shots.

26 Dec 2011  |  Regular season  |  Zimný štadión Poprad
HC LEV Poprad	3-1	CSKA Moskva
Periods: Shots: 0-0 (5-12) 1-0 (11-11) 2-1 (15-3)
Referees: Viktor Tomilov, Evgeny Romasko  |  Spectators: 4500

HC Lev outplayed CSKA and exacerbated the fight for the eighth and last playoff spot in the West. Rastislav Spirko opened the scoring at 28:18 with a pass from Juraj Mikus. In the third period, two goals from Vaclav Nedorost extended Lev's lead to three. First he scored on a power play when Vyacheslav Buravchikov got two minutes for roughing and then scored again at 51:56. Both times Lubos Bartecko assisted on his plays. In the end, CSKA used a power-play chance and Niklas Persson closed it to 3-1. CSKA lost for the eighth game in a row and has given a chance for Lev, Spartak and Vityaz to catch them for a playoff spot in 2012.

 

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