Saint PETERSBOURG SKA scored an away victory againstKunlun “(6:3) in the Fonbet KHL championship match.
The hosts led 3:1 after the first half – Kunlun responded to Arseniy Gritsyuk’s goal with goals from Parker Fu, Teemu Pulkkinen and Ryan Sproul. For Pulkkinen, the puck became his 100th in the KHL and his debut in a Kunlun uniform. The Finn became the seventh player from his country in the history of the championship to reach the three-figure mark, after Teemu Hartikainen (186), Petri Kontiola (141), Jonas Enlund (120), Jarkko Immonen (105), Niko Kapanen (101) and Oscar Osala (101).
Subsequently, SKA managed to score five unanswered goals – Vasily Glotov, Sergei Tolchinsky, Stepan Starkov, Gritsyuk (his second goal of the match) and Alexander Nikishin scored.
Note that five of SKA’s six goals were scored by Roman Rotenberg’s team during a numerical advantage.
SKA scored 24 points and took 5th place in the Western Conference, Kunlun – 10th (17 points).
In a side match “Severstal ” bounced back after 0:3 in the match with “Lada ”, but ultimately lost in the post-match penalty shootout (3:4 B). In less than five minutes in the first period, the guests scored three goals (the authors of the accurate shots were Georgiy Solyannikov, Ostap Safin and Sergei Shumakov), but the hosts also equalized the score at the turn of the periods in less than five minutes ( Adam Liszka, Ilya Ivansov and Kirill scored Pilipenko). During the shootout, the only shot was scored by Lada striker Ostap Safin.
Watch Fonbet matches of the KHL championship on the channels of the Match holding company, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
KHL. Regular season
Kunlun Red Star (Beijing) – SKA (Saint Petersburg) – 3:6 (3:1, 0:3, 0:2)
Goals: Phew, 5:17 p.m. Pulkkinen, 10:24 (bolt.). Sproul, 12:18 (bol.). — Gritsyuk, 4:01 (bolt.), 49:28 (bolt.). Glotov, 11:17 p.m. Tolchinsky, 25:18 (bol.). Starkov, 37:06 (bol.). Nikishin, 52:21 (bol.).
“Severstal” (Cherepovets) – “Lada” (Tolyatti) – 3:4 B (1:3, 2:0, 0:0, 0:1)
Goals: Lishka, 6:50 p.m. Ivansov, 20:34 (bol.). Pilipenko, 11:24 p.m. — Solyannikov, 9:06 a.m. Safin, 10:06 a.m. Shumakov, 13:38.
Winning shootout: Safin
Source : MatchTV
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