All over again

Our coaches made few changes before the second battle. Bogdan Trineyev replaced Vladislav Yefremov in the lineup, Vladislav Kodola was dressed as 13th forward.

Torpedo started the game great scoring two unanswered goals in first six minutes and sending our goalie Ilya Konovalov to the bench. Later the game was full of emotions, so many penalties from both sides. In the second Maxim Dzhioshvili made the score 1-2 and later he got major penalty that wasn’t used by home troops.

In the end of the frame Nikolai Kovalenko hit our goalie. After the brawl him and Ilya Kablukov got double minors. At the start of the third Torpedo decided all their questions scoring two quick goals. We had powerplay opportunities. One of them was capitalized by Dmitry Rashevsky. Unfortunately it happened only with five minutes left to play. Nikolai Kovalenko killed all hopes with a quick answer it.

The series is heading to Moscow where everything will start from the even score.

Torpedo – Dynamo – 5:2 (2:0, 0:1, 2:1)

Goals: 1:0 Firstov (02:23, PP), 2:0 Belevich (06:00), 2:1 Dzhioshvili (Kablukov, 24:21), 3:1 Fedotov (43:35), 4:1 Voronin (46:23), 4:2 Rashevsky (Kodola, Mironov, 54:44, PP), 5:2 Kovalenko (56:34)

Goalies: Kulbakov – Konovalov, Volkov