Alexei Kudashov’s troops beat Kazan in Moscow.
After the loss in the Moscow derby against Spartak our coaches decided to give a rest to Rob Klinkhammer, Alexander Yeryomenko started the game in the net.
In the beginning, we opened the scoreboard when Eric O’Dell fired from the slot to give us a 1-0 lead. Ak Bars answered by hitting the post. Teams played at high speed with a lot of mistakes and turnovers.
In the second period, Ak Bars again hit the post, we scored on the breakaway where Bogdan Yakimov doubled our lead with a wrist shot. We even had a double powerplay however Bilyalov played solid in their net.
We survived penalty killing at the start of the third. Then Vadim Shipachyov scored his first of the night, officials needed a video review to decide did the puck cross the line or not. It did! Ak Bars pushed hard at the end of the game, our ex-forward Daniil Tarasov cut our lead. In the last minute they played in a 6-on-3 format but Shipachyov sent the puck to the empty net to decide the game.
Dynamo is going on tour – Nur-Sultan – Ufa. Two hard games where we need points.
Dynamo Moscow – Ak Bars – 4:1 (1:0, 1:0, 2:1)
Goals: 1:0 O’Dell (Galiyev, Shipachyov, 01:34, PP), 2:0 Yakimov (Boikov, 27:19), 3:0 Shipachyov (Lindberg, Galiyev, 43:16), 3:1 Tarasov (53:32, PP), 4:1 Shipachyov (Wedin, 59:21, EN)
Goalies: Yeryomenko - Bilyalov