Bergfors’ first
18 Jan 2012 | Roman Solovyev
On Wednesday Niklas Bergfors played his first game for Severstal and scored his first KHL goal.
Vityaz 1–4 AmurAmur Khabarovsk won the last game on their road trip after two losses in Moscow and Cherepovets. Amur grabbed a one-goal lead in the beginning of the game with Igor Ignatushkin's goal. Jakub Petruzalek on a breakaway extended the lead with Dmitry Tarasov and Petr Vrana assisting at 13:26. In the second Tarasov received a Vrana pass from behind the net and made it 3-0. A nice sole move from Ignatushkin ended with his backhand shot and the score 4-0 at 43:56. Nikita Dvurechensky with a rebound shot beat Amur goalie Alexei Murygin at 47:31. Amur outshot Vityaz 37-18 and deserved a win this night.
Severstal 1–0 SibirVasily Koshechkin stopped 29 shots, made the 4th shutout of the season and lead Severstal to a 1-0 victory. Niklas Bergfors later in the second scored his first goal for Severstal in his first game for the new club. The best scorer of Severstal Vadim Shipachyov assisted him in power-play at 38:56. Bergfors's first goal became the game-winning; it's a nice start for the Swede in a new team. The Austrian goalie of Sibir stoned 29 shots but one he didn't denied.
Dynamo Moscow 3–2 YugraDynamo Moscow beat Yugra 2-0 in the last game before the All-star game weekend. Artyom Chernov's two quick goals in the second gave Dynamo a comfortable lead after the first period of the play. In the second the teams managed to shoot only 12 times and earned 24 penalty minutes. During a 44-second span Yugra tied the game with Tomas Starosta and Ivan Khlyntsev goals early in the third. At 49:01 Denis Kokarev returned Dynamo and scored last goal of the night.
Spartak 3–1 Metallurg NkNew Spartak captain Alexei Zavarukhin who exchanged Denis Makarov, missing tonight's game due to injury, opened the scoring with a quick wrist shot at 4:45 in power-play. Roman Lyuduchin increased the Spartak lead in the middle of the period after a nice pass from Stefan Ruzicka. Metallurg took game possession in the second with 3 two-minute penalties of Spartak players. Metallurg outshot Spartak in the second with 21-6 but couldn't beat goalie Sergei Borisov. In the third Roman Lyuduchin didn't score with two lob's shot and in a fast counter-attack Stanislav Romanov cut Spartak's lead at 43:37. Yegor Mikhailov with an empty-net goal closed the game 3-1 with 33 seconds remaining. Spartak goalie Sergei Borisov stopped 45 shots and helped his team to get this win.