After the return Summanen lost his first game in a shootout drama

21 Dec 2011 | Regular season | LDS Sokolniki Moscow
Spartak Moskva	1-2	Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk
Periods: Shots: 0-0 (17-8) 1-0 (18-8) 0-2 (5-14)
Referees: Jyri Rönn, Alexei Anisimov | Spectators: 1350

Josef Stümpel played his first game since October 28, when he got an arm injury in a game where Salavat Yulaev beat Spartak 3-2 in overtime.

"Now I feel pretty good," Jozef Stumpel said to Eurohockey.com

The first moment happened, when Mikhail Biryukov resisted a shot from Alexander Budkin, but Roman Lyuduchin was first on the rebound and with a tip-in goal opened the scoring at 21:07. Spartak played very strong not allowing Biryukov to take a rest; and the game in power-play was better than in the major part of the games, which were played last season. Ruzicka came from behind the net trying to put a puck to the net, but Biryukov closed the free corner, during the flurry in the goalie zone Lyuduchin's shot came to the post. After the second period Spartak won 32 of 48 face-off and outshot Yugra 35-16! It was so weird for all, because Spartak usually played this season as the "second number" and was bad at face-offs. But, decided not to give the game away so easily.

"We knew that Spartak will play so aggressively in the first part, but we also knew that in hockey you should play the whole game. A fast first goal in the third helped us, we were a little bit lucky in the end and won the game," Tomas Starosta said to Eurohockey.com.

Firstly, Vitaly Sitnikov's high wrist shot tied the game at 46:08. Igor Magogin also took a part in this play. With 3:17 remaining in the third Spartak goalie Ivan Kasutin made a mistake playing behind the net, Igor Skorokhodov robbed the puck behind the net and gave a pass to Igor Magogin who was in front of the net, and made it 1-2. It was a 6th straight victory for Yugra. Mikhail Biryukov stoned 39 shots tonight and was one of the best players of the night.

"After a bad game against Czech Republic at Euro Hockey Tour our goalie showed another game and helped us to win," Yugra head coach Sergey Shepelev said.

"We're disappointed with the game; we had good scoring chances. I think the reasons are not in our physical conditions, maybe we should try to play a little bit aggressive, two little mistakes lead to two goals," Stümpel said.

21 Dec 2011 | Regular season | KRK Uralets
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg	3-6	Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Periods: Shots: 0-3 (12-15) 3-0 (9-5) 0-3 (2-13)
Referees: Konstantin Olenin, Pavel Komarov | Spectators: 3000

Avtomobilist rally from a 3-goal deficit in the second, but lost the game.  Early in the first Lasse Kukkonen opened the scoring after a pass from Anton But. Alexei Kaigorodov in power-play and Dmitry Kazionov shorthanded made it 0-3 at 9:54. But, what happens in the second no one can predict. During a 2-minute span Avtomobilist managed to tie the game, two times in power-play. Alexander Streltsov, Denis Abdullin, Andrei Subbotin are the creators of this comeback. The level of the teams is so different and in the third Metallurg Magnitogorsk scored three times with Sergei Fedorov, Dmitry Kazionov and Juhamatti Aaltonen goals from the shootout at 57:28. Tonight all nine goals were scored in one net and in the last game before Euro Hockey Tour Metallurg won this the same score 6-3, but this game was held in Magnitogorsk.

21 Dec 2011 | Regular season | Ufa Arena
Salavat Yulayev Ufa	3-4 SO	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Periods: Shots: 1-2 (6-14) 1-0 (14-9) 1-1 (11-10) 0-0 (2-2) 0-1 ( - )
Referees: Mikhail Buturlin, Alexander Soin | Spectators: 7950

Last year's outsider Metallurg Novokuznetsk won 3 of 4 games against Gagarin Cup winner Salavat Yulaev this season. The 4th game was played in Ufa, Metallurg led the game for three times with Alexander Golovin, Alexei Kosourov and Alexander Mereskin goals, but Salavat Yulaev managed to tie the game all three times. The last time with 28 seconds remaining in the third. Igor Grigorenko scored with assists from the Radulov brothers. Five shootout rounds the teams needed to define the winner, the game-deciding goal was scored by Alexander Golovin.

21 Dec 2011 | Regular season | Tatneft Arena
Ak Bars Kazan	3-2	Amur Khabarovsk
Periods: Shots: 2-1 (17-9) 1-1 (13-13) 0-0 (11-13)
Referees: Eduard Odins, Denis Naumov | Spectators: 4350

One of the interesting games of the day was played in Kazan. In the first period the home team outshot Amur 17-9 and scored twice, while Amur was able to do it one time. Denis Kulyash, Alexei Tereshchenko from Ak Bars and Amur's Petr Vrana are the authors of the goals. Early in the second Amur tied the game with Sergei Plotnikov's goal. It was the second Amur goal this night, playing 6-on-5 with a raised hand by the official. Martin Ruzicka got a penalty for holding at 28:41 and Kazan trio Morozov-Kapanen-Zaripov needed only 6 seconds to convert it into the goal. Alexei Morozov made it 3-2 and led Ak Bars to the difficult win.

21 Dec 2011 | Regular season | SCC Arena
Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	3-2	Sibir Novosibirsk
Periods: Shots: 1-1 (9-10) 1-1 (12-5) 1-0 (6-4)
Referees: Roman Gofman, Sergei Kulakov | Spectators: 5000

Sibir lost the 8th straight game on the road. It began in the best way for the Siberian team. At 18:06 Stepan Sannikov set up Artyom Kryukov who opened the scoring.  Unfortunately 10 seconds later Maxim Pestushko managed to tie the game. At 25:00 Yegor Milovzorov gave Neftekhimik a one-goal lead, but 52 seconds later this lead was cut by Alexander Suglobov. Yegor Milovzorov became the first star of the game; early in the third he closed the game with the score 3-2. Neftekhimik forward Oskar Osala made 2 assists.

21 Dec 2011 | Regular season | Ice Palace Cherepovets
Severstal Cherepovets	4-3 SO	Avangard Omsk
Periods: Shots: 0-1 (6-17) 3-1 (16-11) 0-1 (8-5) 0-0 (1-3) 1-0 ( - )
Referees: Andrei Rogachyov, Alexei Radovin | Spectators: 4150

In the first game after return Avangard head coach Raimo Summanen couldn't earn a victory. But the first period for his team was; good Roman Cervenka scored his 19th goal of the season at 15:13. The time interval from 22:42 to 24:55 was like the hell for Avangard team. Firstly they earned three 2-minutes penalties and then Severstal scored three times with Alexander Stepanov, Alexei Tsvetkov, Pasi Puistola power-play goals. Anton Kuryanov cut the Severstal lead to 3-2 at 33:22 with a power-play goal. Early in the third Cervenka scored for the 20th time of the season and tied the game. 8 rounds were needed in the shootout series: Mikko Lehtonen twice, Alexei Tsvetkov twice scored for Severstal, Roman Cervenka twice and Alexander Frolov for Avangard. Tsvetkov's game-winning goal led Severtal to a great victory. The best scorer of KHL season Vadim Shipachyov earned two assistant points.

 

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