Ak Bars and SKA met for the second time this season in Kazan. The first match of these teams, played on October 31 in Saint Petersburg, ended in favor of the team from the capital of Tatarstan. Then the balance tipped in both directions, and the former army players brought the necessary result to the guests: Dmitry Yashkin scored the puck, allowing Ak Bars to equalize the score, and a few minutes later he blocked the goalkeeper’s view, thanks to which Dmitry Kagarlitsky freely hit the empty goal and scored the last goal of that match.
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Since then, both teams have played five matches: Ak Bars won two victories and suffered three defeats, remaining without points in the last two meetings, while SKA, on the contrary, lost twice and prevailed in three matches, including two immediately before of the exit. to one of the favorites of the East: with Neftekhimik and Traktor.
Leopard leaders Vadim Shipachev and Alexander Radulov, who missed the match due to injuries, watched the previous head-to-head from the stands. Today both players were in action, forming a familiar combination with Yashkin. This trio, like everyone else on both teams’ rosters, left the ice without any effective action in the first period. Not even the only elimination in 20 minutes helped to open the scoring, when Nikita Kamalov went to serve a penalty for attacking the goalkeeper.
The St. Petersburg team shot twice as many times, but these shots did not represent a serious threat, so Artur Akhtyamov, like his counterpart Nikita Serebryakov, went into the break without conceding a goal. Once Akhtyamov almost repeated the exit from the goal, as in the game with Metallurg, but he preferred to stay in possession and reflected Marat Khairullin’s shot directly from his zone.
But after half a minute of the second half the scoring opened. Vasily Glotov simply passed, shot and scored: the puck flew under the trap of Akhtyamov, who could do nothing to oppose the SKA attacker.
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The next five minutes passed without pause: the army team locked Ak Bars in their zone and allowed absolutely nothing to the opponent. The Kazan team held on as best they could, but still gave in for the second time: Khairullin intercepted the puck, beat Vyacheslav Voinov with a between-the-legs fake and gave a pass to the far post for Alex Galchenyuk, who was there. However, the puck found Nikita Lyamkin’s skate and bounced off it toward the goal; This option also suited the St. Petersburg striker.
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But after another five minutes there was no longer any trace of SKA’s lead. In a way, both Ak Bars goals were not without good luck. In the first case, Artyom Lukoyanov was lucky: his shot obviously did not work, but after a couple of rebounds, the puck jumped into the goal, passing the disoriented Serebryakov.
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And then Artyom Galimov, who had recently extended his contract with Kazan, slipped away to meet the army porter. He failed to beat Serebryakov on the first attempt, but suddenly he shot with an awkward hand, with his back to the goal: the puck hit the SKA goalkeeper, who had disconnected from the episode, on the skate and crossed the goal line. .
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In the third period, both teams did not have many opportunities: SKA again began to possess the puck more often, but could not convert it into goals. Not even the sending off of Dmitry Yashkin, who was unhappy with the referees’ decision not to send off Maxim Fedotov for a forced move against him, hit the young defender in the face with his stick in the next episode of the game.
Then Vasily Glotov again came to the fore. The forward took the puck out of his zone, threw it and was the first to finish, putting the military team ahead.
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A few minutes later, the Kazan team again found itself in the minority and this time the guests took advantage of their numerical advantage. The accurate shot was scored by Valentin Zykov, who scored the final score of the match.
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Ak Bars lost three games in a row for the first time this season and remained in fifth place in the Eastern Conference. SKA, who proved too tough for the Kazan players, won the third game in a row and rose to fifth place, but already in the West.
