An incredible decision by the leader of Spartak and Rotenberg’s great anniversary. Results of the day in the KHL
Denis Lutchenko December 8, 2023, 00:00 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
The Western leaders at the same time won important victories, Sibir won after the resignation of the head coach, Ak Bars failed the game in seven minutes.
On December 7, the KHL regular season continued with 10 games. We summarize the results of the last matches before the break associated with the KHL All-Star Game and the Channel One Cup 2023.
For a long time the teams could not open the score in the match. Midway through the third period, in the 48th minute, the puck hit the Almirante goal. However, the Vladivostok coaching staff decided to accept the request and, after a video review, the match officials disallowed the goal due to goalkeeper interference. A few minutes later, “Admiral” received the right to play on the power play and converted it. The winning goal was scored by Dmitry Zavgorodniy after a pass from Giovanni Fiore.
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Thus, Admiral took revenge for yesterday’s defeat and took the lead in the Far East match series this season with a score of 3-2.
In the fourth minute of the period, Taylor Beck opened the scoring off a pass from Egor Alanov. In the 16th minute, Vladimir Butuzov doubled the home lead with a pass from Vladimir Mikhalev. In the 18th minute of the twenty minutes, Nikolai Prokhorkin made the score 3:0 with a pass from Nikita Efremov. A minute later, Artyom Mikheev, with assists from Dinar Khamidullin and Alanov, took the score to an important level. In the ninth minute of the second half, Andy Andreoff made the score 5:0 with assists from Vladimir Butuzov and Taylor Beck. In the 13th minute of the period, Anthony Kamara, with a pass from David Sklenicki, ruined the score of the game.
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Recall that this match was the first for Sibir since the resignation of David Nemirovsky as coach of the Novosibirsk Club. The acting head coach is now Sergei Krivokrasov.
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The teams did not score any goals in the first half. In the ninth minute of the second half, Borna Rendulic opened the scoring with assists from Alexander Nikishin and Marat Khairullin. In the 14th minute of the period, Vladimir Alistrov doubled the military club’s lead with assists from Maxim Fedotov and Nikita Serebryakov. In the 18th minute of the period, Artyom Blazhievsky reduced the lead with a pass from Mikhail Kotlyarevsky. At the end of the match, Alexander Nikishin, with a pass from Alex Galchenyuk, scored the final score of the match, scoring into an empty net.
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For Roman Rotenberg, who heads the St. Petersburg team, this is his hundredth victory as a coach in the KHL. It took him 148 games to do this. Rotenberg has been the head coach of SKA since January 2022.
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In the sixth minute of the first half, Alexander Sharov opened the scoring of the match with assists from Dinar Khafizullin and Danil Alalykin. In the 12th minute of the period, Anatoly Golyshev, with assists from Brooks Macek and Stefan Da Costa, restored equality on the scoreboard. In the second twenty minutes the teams managed without scoring goals.
In the seventh minute of the third half, Alexander Sharov, with a pass from Sergei Shmelev, once again put the Ufa Club ahead. In the 18th minute of the period, Curtis Valk made the score 2:2 with assists from Sergei Shirokov and Brooks Macek. In extra time, Stefan Da Costa gave the Yekaterinburg Club the victory by scoring into the empty goal of the guests.
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In the 51st minute of the first half, Alexander Petunin opened the scoring with a pass from Roman Kantserov. In the fourth minute of the period, Nikita Grebenkin doubled the home lead with assists from Daniil Vovchenko and Denis Zernov. After the second failed goal, the Torpedo coaching staff replaced the goalkeeper, replacing Adam Guska with Ivan Kulbakov, who subsequently kept the visitors’ goal intact.
In the sixth minute of the second twenty-minute period, Mikhail Orlov, with assists from Oleg Li and Vladislav Firstov, ruined the score of the match. In the 15th minute of the period, Vladislav Firstov made the score 2:2 with assists from Andrei Belevich and Anton Sizov. In the 13th minute of the third half, Vasily Atanasov, with assists from Andrei Belevich and Daniil Bokun, put the Nizhny Novgorod Club ahead, scoring in the minority.
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The teams did not score a goal in the first twenty minutes. In the eighth minute of the second half, Vladislav Semin opened the scoring of the match with a pass from Dmitry Kugryshev. In the ninth minute of the final period of regulation, Mikhail Fisenko doubled the lead of Oleg Bratash’s team with a pass from Maxim Berezin. In the 17th minute of the period, Ivan Romanov scored the final score of the game with assists from Sergei Shumakov and Fisenko.
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In the 11th minute of the first half, Ilya Safonov opened the scoring of the match with assists from Dmitry Yudin and Daniil Zhuravlev. In the second twenty minutes the teams managed without scoring goals. In the fifth minute of the third period, Pavel Kraskovsky, with assists from Daniil But and Rushan Rafikov, restored equality on the scoreboard. In the eighth minute of the period, Booth put the Yaroslavl club ahead with assists from Ivan Chekhovich and Sergei Andronov. In the 12th minute of the period, Yaroslav Likhachev made the score 3:1 with a pass from Arthur Kayumov.
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In the ninth minute of the first half, Prokhor Poltapov opened the scoring of the game with assists from Andrei Svetlakov and Vladislav Provolnev. In the 15th minute of the period, Mikhail Grigorenko doubled the military club’s lead with assists from Anton Slepyshev and Maxim Sorkin.
In the 11th minute of the second half, Scott Wilson scored the game on a pass from Jeremy Roy. In the ninth minute of the third half, Andrei Svetlakov scored the third goal against the hosts. At the end of the match, Provolnev scored the final score of the game.
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The teams finished the first half without scoring goals. In the 16th minute of the second twenty minutes, Brennan Menell opened the scoring of the match with a pass from Nikita Gusev. In the eighth minute of the third half, Ruslan Abrosimov, with assists from Timofey Davydov and Kirill Pilipenko, restored equality on the scoreboard.
In the penalty shootout, the blue and white came out better. The only penalty shootout was scored by Nikita Gusev. The main hero among the guests was 20-year-old goalkeeper Maxim Motorygin, who repelled 25 shots during the match and in the post-match shootout coped with all five penalty shots. Motorygin got the chance to play after a series of unsuccessful matches between Ilya Konovalov and Konstantin Volkov.
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In the eighth minute of the first half, Danila Galenyuk opened the scoring with assists from Nikolai Chebykin and Danil Avershin. In the 10th minute of the second half, Pavel Poryadin restored the score with a pass from Nikolai Goldobin. In the 12th minute of the period, Amir Garayev, with assists from Kirill Rasskazov and Vasily Machulin, put Sochi ahead again.
In the 10th minute of the third period, Joey Keane made the score 2:2 with assists from Ilya Talaluev and German Rubtsov. In the 16th minute of the period, Alexander Belyaev put the hosts ahead with an assist from Dmitry Vishnevsky. In the 19th minute of the period, Andrei Loktionov made the score 4:2. At the end of the match, Danil Avershin scored the final score of the game.
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A few seconds before Avershin’s goal, one of the most unusual episodes of the entire KHL season took place. At the end of the match, Spartak forward Maxim Tsyplakov did not score into the empty Sochi goal, trying to pass the ball. The Sochi club did not allow them to hit the empty goal, and in response to the attack, forward Avershin scored the puck against Spartak.
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