SKA eliminated Sochi, Torpedo and CSKA failed. Results of the day in the KHL
Vladimir Laevsky December 20, 2023, 00:00 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
“Avangard” lost heavily to “Ak Bars”, and “Salavat Yulaev” and “Barys” played a thriller match.
Nine Fonbet KHL regular season games were played on December 19. We summarize the game day and tell you the most important things from past matches.
In one of the brightest matches of the day, Ak Bars defeated Avangard. In the 25th minute, Kirill Semenov opened the scoring and put the Kazan team ahead. And then it was time for Evgeniy Svechnikov. In the 27th minute, the striker doubled Ak Bars’ lead and towards the end of the match he scored twice into an empty net, marking a hat-trick. Kazan goalkeeper Timur Bilyalov recorded the shutout.
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In the 15th minute, the teams exchanged goals twice. Pavel Koledov and Nikolai Kulemin scored for the locals, and for the visitors Pontus Oberg and Anthony Kamara. In the 44th minute, Salavat managed to escape (4:2) thanks to goals from Nicolas Meloche and Yegor Suchkov. However, Barys managed to even the score: Arkady Shestakov and Evgeniy Rymarev each scored one goal. The outcome came in the 58th minute. Kulemin scored a double and gave Salavat the victory.
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At the beginning of the second half, Avtomobilist captain Sergei Shirokov opened the scoring with assists from Curtis Valk and Stefan Da Costa. The Chelyabinsk team managed to tie the score in the second half thanks to a goal from Vitaly Kravtsov, assisted by Albert Yarullin and Semyon Der-Arguchintsev. Halfway through the third period, Avtomobilist scored the most: Nick Ebert scored a goal. Traktor managed to equalize in the minority two minutes before the end of the third period thanks to Maxim Shabanov’s puck. Anton Burdasov scored the winning goal in extra time.
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The Togliatti team opened the scoring in the match, scoring at the beginning of the second half. Ostap Safin overtook the Lada. In the 26th minute, Maxim Sushko managed to equalize the score. The teams spent the third period without goals, the game went to overtime. And there the victory for Siberia was brought by Georgy Belousov, who scored with a pass from Taylor Beck.
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A new addition is added to the traditionally low-scoring matches between Lokomotiv and Severstal. This time the result of the match was decided by a precise shot by Kirill Pilipenko. It is noteworthy that Severstal took only 16 shots, while Lokomotiv hit 30 times. The hero of the match was Cherepovsk goalkeeper Dmitry Shugaev.
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In one of the central matches of the day, almost the most interesting teams of the season faced each other.” Spartak quickly took the lead thanks to a goal from Shane Prince. The Muscovites responded to Mikhail Orlov’s puck with four of their own. Shane Prince himself, Michal Czajkowski, Pavel Poryadin and Dmitry Vishnevsky contributed. Alexey Kruchinin’s goal in the penultimate minute helped Torpedo avoid a big defeat.
As a result, the Nizhny Novgorod team interrupted its four-match winning streak, and Spartak retained its lead in the KHL.
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After 40 minutes of play, the score of the match was equal 1:1: Andrei Stas and Scott Wilson scored. In the third period, the hosts scored three unanswered goals: first, Egor Borikov scored, then Alexander Volkov doubled the lead of the Minsk team and Cody Curran ended the match with a goal into an empty net. Thus, Dinamo Minsk beat Vityaz for the third time this season.
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The first half ended with the score 1:0 in favor of SKA, Marat Khairullin scored. It is noteworthy that the St. Petersburg team outperformed its rival 33:1. In the second half, the Sochi team managed to equalize the score thanks to the majority goal from Sergei Popov. However, in the third period SKA scored six goals. The second goal of the match was scored by Khairullin, Borna Rendulic, Arseniy Gritsyuk and Vasily Glotov scored once each. Mikhail Vorobyov scored a double. Timur Khafizov scored the prestigious goal in the last 20 minutes for the Sochi team.
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The main match of the day. The derby took place in Moscow, where the home Dynamo took the lead midway through the first half thanks to a power-play goal from Cedric Paquette, assisted by Brennan Menell and Nikita Gusev. In the 16th minute, Gusev doubled the home team’s majority lead. At the beginning of the second half, the army team responded with a goal from Kirill Dolzhenkov, but then received first a five-minute big penalty, and then another two minutes and conceded once each in the “3 to 5” and “4 in 5” formats. The goals were scored by Daniil Pylenkov and Artyom Ilyenko.
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Matches December 20
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