Helsinki
Ekaterinburg
End of game
Game stats: Shots: 55-34 ; Shots on goal: 29-20 ; Goals: 0-3 ; Faceoffs: 31-28 ; Blocked shots: 7-17 ; Hits: 21-19 ; Time on Attack: 12:32-07:32 ; Penalty: 8-8
Saves on third: Kovar 8, Zapolski 9.
Stats of 3rd period: Shots: 20-15 ; Shots on goal: 8-12 ; Goals: 0-3 ; Faceoffs: 13-12 ; Blocked shots: 2-8 ; Hits: 5-4 ; Time on Attack: 04:21-03:11 ; Penalty: 6-6
End of 3 period
Penalty. Jokerit. 16. Platt Geoff 2 min. Roughing
Penalty. Avtomobilist. 9. Dawes Nigel 2 min. Roughing
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 30. Zapolski Ryan. Avtomobilist: 21. Kovar Jakub.
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: empty net. Avtomobilist: 21. Kovar Jakub.
Timeout. Jokerit.
Two minutes remaining of the third period.
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 30. Zapolski Ryan. Avtomobilist: 21. Kovar Jakub.
Goal: Avtomobilist. 77. Da Costa Stephane assists: 11. Sexton Dan, 9. Dawes Nigel
Even strength. Empty net.
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: empty net. Avtomobilist: 21. Kovar Jakub.
Lööv wrister straight to Kovar´s lap.
Jensen to crossbar, then teams are at full strength.
Must say, Avto is playing box play very well.
Joensuu wrister to fishnets from Kovar´s save.
Penalty. Avtomobilist. 3. Lyamin Kirill 2 min. Interference
Teams are at full strenght.
Manninen´s shot is good. Good is also Kovar´s save.
Penalty. Avtomobilist. 33. Bodrov Denis 2 min. Tripping
Goal: Avtomobilist. 17. Krikunov Ilya assists: 11. Sexton Dan, 42. Kucheryavenko Alexander
Power play.
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 30. Zapolski Ryan. Avtomobilist: 21. Kovar Jakub.
Penalty. Jokerit. 7. Lauridsen Oliver 2 min. Hooking
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 30. Zapolski Ryan. Avtomobilist: empty net.
Now there are situations on ice, Jokerit shot at least three times within 30 seconds. No goals. Entertaining hockey at the moment.
Teams are at full strength.
Nice power play by Avto so far.
Da Costa from the line, Zapo saves.
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 30. Zapolski Ryan. Avtomobilist: 21. Kovar Jakub.
Penalty. Jokerit. 71. Jensen Niklas 2 min. Tripping
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 30. Zapolski Ryan. Avtomobilist: empty net.
Game is on again. No goals in two periods. Let´s see if we will have overtime tonight...
Begin of 3 period
Saves on second period: Kovar 8, Zapolski 2.
Stats of 2nd period: Shots: 16-11 ; Shots on goal: 8-2 ; Goals: 0-0 ; Faceoffs: 5-9 ; Blocked shots: 4-6 ; Hits: 8-8 ; Time on Attack: 02:51-02:35 ; Penalty: 2-0
End of 2 period
One minute remaining of the second period.
Avto takes timeout after icing. Guys needed some more rest before the game continues.
Timeout. Avtomobilist.
Weird, refs allow to fix the skate on the ice and Zapolski is let to continue.
Zapolski´s skate is broken, lost a blade and game is stopped.
Jokerit 51 Grant makes huge slap shot and puck hits Avto´s 51 Litovchenko to his ancle. Seems to hurt a bit.
Ok boxplay for Jokerit. After boxplay quite good some pressure to Avtomobilist end.
Teams are at full strength.
Sexton shoots, Zapolski saves. Then Krikunov hits the post.
Da Costa was through, Kivistö tripped him and now he spends some time in the box.
Penalty. Jokerit. 4. Kivisto Tommi 2 min. Tripping
Some dude just proposed his girlfriend on the screen. I guess girl said yes.
Game flows with quite speed from end to end but nothing to report.
Kivistö gets great spot to shoot, steps and steps and finally shot goes. Stops to Avto player´s back.
Räsänen gives nice pass from own zone, afterwards Moses wrister, no good this time.
Avtomobilist player on Zapolski´s crease, faceoff from neutral zone.
In many games Jokerit has had strong second period. Lets see how it goes today.
Begin of 2 period
Saves on first period: Kovar 13, Zapolski 6.
Stats of 1st period: Shots: 19-8 ; Shots on goal: 13-6 ; Goals: 0-0 ; Faceoffs: 13-7 ; Blocked shots: 1-3 ; Hits: 8-7 ; Time on Attack: 05:20-01:24 ; Penalty: 0-2
End of 1 period
Chasalin shoot quite well, Zapolski saves that one.
One minute remaining of first period.
Huge mistake for Avto at own end, Niemi all alone with Kovar, no goal this time.
Jensen shoots, Kovar picks that one easily.
Joensuu gives a good check to Mamkin. Crowd likes.
Quite good shot from Lööv, berries for Kovar.
Teams are at full strength.
Joensuu tries to direct Regin shot, misses the puck.
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 30. Zapolski Ryan. Avtomobilist: 21. Kovar Jakub.
Penalty. Avtomobilist. 2. Yegorshev Stanislav 2 min. High Sticking
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: empty net. Avtomobilist: 21. Kovar Jakub.
O´Neill from small angle, wide.
Lööv shot saved by Kovar.
Game has lots of speed while going from end to end. Not too much to report so far though.
Begin of 1 period
Goalkeeper:
30. Zapolski Ryan (Jokerit).
21. Kovar Jakub (Avtomobilist).
Begin of game
Refs tonight: Sergei Kulakov and Martin Frano Linesmen: Tornike Kuchava and Konstantin Gordenko.
Teams will start the game with following lineups:
Avto: GK Kovar, LD Vasilevsky, RD Tryamkin, LW Krikunov, C Kucheryavenko, RW Milovzorov
Jokerit: GK Zapolski, LD Stollery, RD Lepistö, LW Moses, C Regin, RW Manninen
Teams enter the ice for warm up. Welcome Avtomobilist to Hartwall Arena.