KHL.ru tells about the brightest events of the past day, in which Primorye, who were one step away from being eliminated from the playoffs, won a hard-earned victory in Kazan.
Phenomenal Serebryakov
“Admiral” reduced the score in the series with “Ak Bars”, having won a difficult match in Kazan. Especially difficult for the guests was the third period, in which they could not hit the target Timur Bilyalov not a single throw. The hosts hit the target 16 times, and in total for the game – exactly 50. Nikita Serebryakov once again he was inimitable, and coped with almost all the threats, and the only one that he could not take away was an insidious rebound – and no one would have been able to, except perhaps by accident. This is the second time in the series and the fifth in the playoffs that Serebryakov has scored at least 40 shots on target.
Sotnia Radulova
Ak Bars scored the only goal Alexander Radulov (ricochet from a skate Colby Williams). And he became the fourth hockey player in history to score 100 points in the Gagarin Cup. Previously, a hundred were knocked out Sergey Mozyakin (in total he has 172 points), Danis Zaripov (128) i Vadim Shipachyov (118). It is likely that in the near future the elite of cup scorers will be joined by Nikita Gusevwho has five points to go.
mocking goal
By the time Radulov finally broke through Serebryakov, the score was already 0-2. Primorye scored their two goals in two and a half minutes. The second goal, from a counterattack, turned out to be somewhat mocking. That counterattack cannot be called swift: three Admiral players (including the defender Leonid Metalnikov) rolled into a foreign zone, not that slowly, but rather leisurely. Caught up with them Vyacheslav Voinov even managed to formally rename this situation from “three to one” to “three two”; and who wielded the puck Nikolai Chebykin allowed himself to give a not very logical pass back, after which he already closed the reverse transmission.
Two Berlev records
Reverse transmission returned to Chebykin Anton Berlev, who scored the sixth (2 + 4) point in the current draw. This is the Admiral’s club record, more precisely, even two records: for one playoff draw, and for the entire time of participation in the Gagarin Cup. Berlev overtook Ilya Zubov (3+2 in 2014) and Maxima Kazakova (5+0 in 2017).
Viktor Kozlov stays in Ufa
Ufa residents, whom Admiral knocked out of the draw in the previous round, did not repress the coaching staff, and extended contracts with the entire staff: the head coach Viktor Kozlovhis assistants Konstantin Koltsov and Nikolai Tsulygingoalkeeping coach Oleg Filimonov and fitness trainer Andrian Valvo.
