Tournament win for Magnitogorsk

When Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk and Metallurg Magnitogorsk played yesterday on the last day of the group stage Neftekhimik got the win thanks to a shootout win, but today when there was more at stake in the final, Metallurg was the stronger team.

Metallurg won the final 5-2 (1-1, 1-3, 0-1). The game was close at the middle of the second period but  Sergey Mozyakin scored 4-2 at 35:02 and added 5-2 with 5:16 remaining of the game. Evgeny Lapenkov made it 1-0 for Neftekhimik at 6:24 and Mikhail Yakubov tied it seven minutes later and the first period ended 1-1. Metallurg won the second period 3-1. Anton But scored 2-1 and Juhamatti Aaltonen 3-1. Martin Cibak made it 3-2 at 29:13 to give Neftekhimik new hope, but Mozyakin saved the day for Metallurg with his two goals.

In the game for the third place the home team Traktor Chelyabinsk beat Avangard Omsk 2-1. Anton Burdasov scored 1-0 for Traktor in the first period. Jan Bulis made it 2-0 in the middle of the second period. Avangard’s only goal was scored by Alexander Popov on the 36-minute mark.
The group stage was a close contest. Four of the six games were not decided after 60 minutes of play.

The results:
2011-08-15 Avangard-Neftekhimik 3-4
2011-08-15 Traktor-Metallurg 3-4 (OT)
2011-08-16 Avangard-Metallurg 1-2 (OT)
2011-08-16 Traktor-Neftekhimik 2-1 (OT)
2011-08-17 Metallurg-Neftekhimik 1-2 (SO)
2011-08-17 Traktor-Avangard 2-4
2011-08-18 Avangard-Traktor 1-2
2011-08-18 Neftekhimik-Metallurg 2-5

 

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