House of wolves
Dynamo Moscow started the road trip with a huge win in Nizhnkemask
Blue-Whites came to Nizhnekamsk seeking for revenge after huge loss at home ice with 3-6 score. Coaches needed to do changes after injuries of Vyacheslav Kulyomin and Sergei Boikov. Accidentally, both teams’ mascots are wolves. So, it was episode 2 of battle for the house of wolves.
Dynamo started to play accurate in first minutes and used a chance on 7th minute. Igor Polygalov converted combination of partners to first goal of the night. First of many. Two minutes later Dmitrij Jaskin with a masterpiece in front of the net doubled a lead extending his point streak to 10 games! Before the intermission Ildar Shiksatdarov scored first goal for Neftekhimik.
In the second period Dynamo needed only 2:16 to score three unanswered goal in different situations: power play, even strength and penalty killing. Andrei Alexeyev scored on breakaway with a seek move. The third one started with a power play conversion from Juuso Hietanen. The game is over. However, Nizhnekamsk team did not allow us to leave it easily. With 2:57 to play in the game they started their comeback scoring three goals, last one happened only with 7 seconds on the clock.
Neftekhimik – Dynamo Moscow – 4:6 (1:2, 0:3, 3:1)
Goals: 0:1 Polygalov (Indrasis, Petersson, 06:56), 0:2 Jaskin (Volkov, Tarasov, 09:25), 1:2 Shiksatdarov (Kulikov, 16:38), 1:3 Jaskin (Hietanen, Cajkovsky, 35:47, PP), 1:4 Alexeyev (36:43) ,1:5 Polygalov (Jaskin, Shipachyov, 38:03, SH), 1:6 Hietanen (Shipachyov, 42:12, PP), 2:6 Berglund (Enlund, 57:03), 3:6 Murphy (Berglund, 59:27), 4:6 Groshev (Sharipzyanov, 59:53)
Goalies: Barulin, Sharychenkov – Bocharov, Kuznetsov