Ak Bars and Salavat move to 2-0 leads

25 Feb 2011 | Henrik Lundqvist

Ak Bars Kazan beat Barys Astana 3-0 and Salavat Yulaev Ufa got a 3-1 win over Sibir Novosibirsk to move to 2-0 leads in the series in the KHL 1/8 finals. Avangard Omsk and Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk also won today and tied their series.

Ak Bars Kazan

3:0

Barys Astana

Alexei Morozov and Alexei Tereshenko scored in the first period and Marcel Hossa in the second when Ak Bars Kazan beat Barys Astana 3-0 in today´s KHL 1/8 final to move to a 2-0 lead in the series. Petri Vehanen earned a shut-out for the second day in a row. Today he made 26 saves.

Salavat Yulayev Ufa

3:1

Sibir Novosibirsk

Salavat Yulaev Ufa also moved to a 2-0 series lead after today´s 3-1 victory over Sibir Novosibirsk. Sibir took the lead at 24:20 when Stepan Sannikov beat Salavat´s goalie Erik Ersberg, but Petr Schastlivy, Igor Grigorenko and Kirill Koltsov scored for Ufa to give the home team the win.

Metallurg Magnitogorsk

1:2

Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk

Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk managed to win 2-1 away to Metallurg Magnitogorsk to tie the series at 1.Ivan Khlyntsev and Mikhail Yajubob scored for the guests. Magnitogorsk´s goal was scored by Sergei Fedorov.

Avangard Omsk

1:0 OT

Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk

Avangard Omsk surprisingly lost the opening game to Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk and they were in trouble also today. In overtime Dmitri Semin scored the only goal of the 1-0 game, assisted by Egor Averin.