Deja vu

At the middle of the series coaches started to make more changes in the lineup, trying to boost team speed and energy with fresh players.

The game was quite like last one. Home team started with a great PP goal in first minutes of the play. Dynamo answered only in the second period when Eric O’Dell scored two goals in 13 minutes.

Torpedo tied in 37 seconds after O’Dell’s second of the night. In the third period Dynamo dominated on the ice and Jakob Lilja made the scored 3-2 at 50:02. Torpedo quickly answered Vladislav Firstov tied it again.

In the overtime we again had troubles. We survived first penalty-killing but in the end of the second Nikolai Kovalenko with a nice grab-go took the puck into our water where Dennis Yan finished it.

Our first do-or-die game of the season will happen on March 12.

Torpedo – Dynamo – 4:3 OT (1:0, 1:2, 1:1, 1:0)

Goals: 1:0 Yan (01:20, PP), 1:1 O’Dell (Trineyev, Malyshev, 25:56), 1:2 O’Dell (Lilja, Menell, 38:02, PP), 2:2 Mikheyev (38:39), 2:3 Lilja (Weal, Menell, 50:02), 3:3 Firstov (50:51), 4:3 Yan (78:20, PP)

Goalies: Kulbakov – Konovalov