Minsk takes lead inTarasov Division

26 Dec 2011 | Roman Solovyev

In Monday's two KHL games, Dinamo Minsk beat Atlant 4-2 and HC Lev won their last game of 2011.

26 Dec 2011 | Regular season | Minsk Arena

Dinamo Minsk

4-2

Atlant Moscow Oblast

Periods:
Shots:

3-1
(14-19)

0-1
(5-13)

1-0
(9-11)

Referees: Alexei Radovin, Yakov Deev | Spectators: 15086

The Belarusian team snapped Atlant's seven-game winning streak on the road and took the lead in the Tarasov Division. Dinamo Minsk took a quick lead with two goals in the first four minutes. Teemu Laine opened the scoring with a quick wrist shot at 2:59 after a nice pass from Andrei Stas. Then Jeff Platt finished a play that went Mikhalyov-Linglet-Platt. Nikolai Zherdev was first on the rebound and cut the Dinamo lead at 8:53. Atlant gifted the home team a chance to play 5-on-3 when David Petrasek and Andrei Zubarev got two penalty minutes each. Jaroslav Obsut with a snap shot from the blue line made it 3-1. Dinamo Minsk gave the same gift in the second and Nikolai Zherdev made a double at 27:11. In the end of the game Obsut made a nice pass to Alexei Meleshko who was in a goalie zone and overplayed Konstantin Barulin. Kevin Lalande played another great game stopping 41 shots.

26 Dec 2011 | Regular season | Zimný štadión Poprad

HC LEV Poprad

3-1

CSKA Moskva

Periods:
Shots:

0-0
(5-12)

1-0
(11-11)

2-1
(15-3)

Referees: Viktor Tomilov, Evgeny Romasko | Spectators: 4500

HC Lev outplayed CSKA and exacerbated the fight for the eighth and last playoff spot in the West. Rastislav Spirko opened the scoring at 28:18 with a pass from Juraj Mikus. In the third period, two goals from Vaclav Nedorost extended Lev's lead to three. First he scored on a power play when Vyacheslav Buravchikov got two minutes for roughing and then scored again at 51:56. Both times Lubos Bartecko assisted on his plays. In the end, CSKA used a power-play chance and Niklas Persson closed it to 3-1. CSKA lost for the eighth game in a row and has given a chance for Lev, Spartak and Vityaz to catch them for a playoff spot in 2012.