Kalev-Valk Estonian Champion after an amazing third period

HK Viru Sputnik Kohtla-Järve

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HK Kalev-Välk Tartu

Until today the home team had won every game of the Estonian finals. Viru Sputnik won game one 9-8 (shoot-out) and game 3 11-2 while Kalev-Valk won their home games 3-2 and 6-5.

The last game also seemed to end in favor of the home team but the incredible finish by Kalev-Valk brought the gold medals to Tartu.

Viru Sputnik scored one goal in each period to take the 3-0 lead Ilja Tsekmarjov scored 1-0 and 3-0 while Ivan Akimov got the 2-0 goal.

The Kalev-Valk come-back started at 46:28 when Ivan Loginov scored 3-1. One and a half minute later he also scored 3-2 and the home team got nervous. 3-3 came with 8 minutes remaining by Andrei Aleksandrov. The visitors took the lead at 58:16 when Aleksandr Titov scored on Anatoli Dubkov. Dubkov was pulled from the neat and Maksim Ivanov could score 5-3 for the 2011 Estonian Champion Kalev-Valk.

08:26 1:0 Ilja Tsekmarjov
35:55 2:0 Ivan Akimov
45:14 3:0 Ilja Tsekmarjov (Akimov)
46:28 3:1 Ivan Loginov (Samorukov, Titov)
47:56 3:2 Ivan Loginov (Shvarygin)
51:59 3:3 Andrei Aleksandrov (Jakovlev, Perov)
58:16 3:4 Aleksandr Titov (Loginov)
59:38 3:5 Maksim Ivanov (Shvarygin)

 

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