Friday, October 16, 2015

2015/16 KHL Season - Day 53

Four more games today as the schedule shifts again, beginning with...

Metallurg Magnitogorsk hosting Salavat Yulaev Ufa. Niklas Svedberg and Vasily Koshechkin receive the starting nods. Ufa began in the first period on an Andreas Engqvist goal, coming off of Alexander Loginov and Linus Omark. Salavat Yulaev added on with an Omark power play goal, powered by Kirill Koltsov and Igor Grigorenko. Ufa extended the lead in the second period on a Teemu Hartikainen goal, via Enver Lisin. Salavat Yulaev padded the lead on a Koltsov power play goal, guided in by Engqvist and Grigorenko. Magnitogorsk got on the board with a Jan Kovar goal, with a lone assist by Sergei Mozyakin. Ufa replied on a Nikolai Prokhorkin goal, made possible by Loginov and Omark. Metallurg chipped back with a Mozyakin goal, helped along by Danis Zaripov and Kovar. Magnitogorsk got closer on an unassisted Kovar goal in the third period, his second of the game. Metallurg pulled closer as Mozyakin scored his second of the game, with the help of Zaripov and Kovar. Salavat Yulaev won 6-4 on an Omark empty net goal, set up by Grigorenko, who got a sock trick. The three stars went to Omark, Engqvist, and Kovar, while Loginov, Koltsov, Grigorenko, Mozyakin, and Zaripov receive the honorable mentions.

Out west, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl welcomes Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. Alexander Sudnitsin and Vitaly Kolesnik man the nets. Yaroslavl started in the first period on a Denis Mosalyov goal, assisted by Daniil Apalkov and Petri Kontiola. Lokomotiv added on in the second period with a Yegor Averin goal, with a lone assist by Kontiola. Yaroslavl extended the lead as Ilya Lyubushkin scored, thanks to Emil Galimov and Vladislav Kartayev. Vitaly Koval replaced Sudnitsin in goal. Lokomotiv padded the lead on a Galimov goal, passed from Dmitry Maltsev and Andrei Loktionov. Nizhnekamsk got on the board with an Alexander Kitarov goal, fueled by Maxim Berezin. Neftekhimik pulled closer on a Mikhail Zhukov power play goal in the third period, powered by Andrei Stas and Yegor Milovzorov. This only made it 4-2, with the three stars going to Galimov, Kontiola, and Lyubushkin.

Down in Sochi, the Leopards bring in Traktor Chelyabinsk. Vasily Demchenko and Andrei Gavrilov are in the blue paint. Sochi dented the scoreboard in the second period on a Nikolai Zherdev power play goal, coming off of Ben Maxwell and Ziyat Paigin. The Leopards added on with an unassisted goal by Evgeny Skachkov. Chelyabinsk got on the board with an Andrei Popov goal, courtesy of Konstantin Klimontov on the power play. Traktor tied it with an Artyom Borodkin goal, made possible by Stanislav Chistov. The tie lasted to a shootout, where Roman Lyuduchin and Maxwell of Sochi got topped by the trio of Anton Glinkin, Chistov, and Martin Ruzicka of Chelyabinsk, who took the game 3-2. The three stars went to Chistov, Maxwell, and Ruzicka.

Finally, SKA St. Petersburg hosts Ak Bars Kazan. Emil Garipov and Mikko Koskinen are the masked men. St. Petersburg drew first blood in the first period on an Evgeny Ketov goal, passed from Anton Burdasov and Alexander Kadeikin. Kazan tied it on a Yakov Rylov goal, assisted by Mikhail Varnakov and Mikhail Glukhov. Ak Bars took the lead on a Vladimir Tkachyov goal, guided in by Justin Azevedo and Marek Daloga in the second period. Kazan won 3-1 with a third period goal from Oscar Moller on the power play, with a lone assist by Azevedo. The three stars went to Garipov (28 for 29 in saves), Azevedo, and Tkachyov.

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