Monday, October 20, 2014

KHL October 20th, 2014

Four games on today, with the first in...

Traktor Chelyabinsk hosting Medvescak Zagreb. Barry Brust and Michael Garnett are the North American goalies. Zagreb got going in the second period on a Matt Anderson goal, with a lone assist by Ville Leino. Medvescak added on as Leino scored, thanks to Anderson and Bill Thomas. Zagreb extended the lead with a Brock Trotter goal, via James Wright. Chelyabinsk got one back with a Stanislav Chistov power play goal, powered by Deron Quint. Medvescak shot back in the third period on a Martin St. Pierre goal, coming off of Brandon Segal. Traktor got one back as Artyom Penkovsky scored, with the help of Anton Glinkin and Martin Ruzicka. This was only good to make it 4-2, the final, and the three stars were Anderson, Leino, and Trotter.

Up in Khanty-Mansiysk, Yugra welcomes Slovan Bratislava. Johan Backlund and Mikhail Biryukov are the veteran goalies. Bratislava began in the first period on a Ladislav Nagy goal, assisted by Ziga Jeglic and Tomas Starosta. Khanty-Mansiysk tied it on a Ben Maxwell goal, with a lone assist by Lukas Kaspar. Yugra took the lead on a power play goal by Alexei Pepelyaev, powered by Andrei Sergeyev and Igor Magogin. Khanty-Mansiysk added on in the second period as Nikita Gusev scored a power play goal, passed from Philip Larsen and Andrei Chibisov. Slovan pulled back with a Jeglic goal, coming off of Nagy and Rok Ticar. Bratislava tied it in the third period on a Vladimir Mihalik goal, via Nagy. The tie lasted to a shootout, where Nagy's lone tally secured a 4-3 Slovan win. The three stars went to Nagy, Jeglic, and Mihalik.

Over in Nizhnekamsk, Neftekhimik brings in Atlant Mytishchi. Dmitry Shikin is mismatched with Alexander Sudnitsin in goal. Mytishchi led off in the first period with a Roman Rukavishnikov power play goal, powered by Igor Radulov and Ondrej Nemec. Nizhnekamsk tied it on a Pyotr Khokryakov goal, made possible by Yaroslav Alshevsky. Atlant took the lead back with an Artyom Chernov goal, assisted by Andreas Engqvist. Neftekhimik retied it on a Tim Stapleton power play goal, guided in by Stanislav Kalashnikov. Mytishchi took the lead again in the third period as Engqvist scored, thanks to Chernov and Sergei Shmelyov. This held up for a 3-2 win, with the three stars being Engqvist, Chernov, and Shikin (26 for 28 in saves).

Finally, in Togliatti, Lada hosts Dinamo Minsk. Lars Haugen and Ilya Ezhov are the masked men. Minsk started with an unassisted goal by Alexander Kulakov. Dinamo added on with a Jonathan Cheechoo goal, with a lone assist by Alexei Kalyuzhny. Minsk extended the lead as Matt Ellison scored in the third period, thanks to Charles Linglet. Togliatti got on the board with a power play goal by Denis Barantsev, powered by Alexander Chernikov and Yury Petrov. This only made it 3-1, and the three stars were given to Haugen (26 for 27 in saves), Cheechoo, and Ellison.

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