"Donbass" continues to act confidently in the Higher Hockey League of Russia. At this time, under the power of Donetsk club could not resist the representative of Kazakhstan in the VHL, a team with great tradition and history - "Kazzinc-Torpedo" (Ust-Kamenogorsk).
At the begining Donbas took start unsuccessfully - at 4-minute of the meeting, the score was - 0:1. Later the teams, in two periods, up to 40-minute have exchanged of goals. The decisive episode in the game when the score was 4:3 in favor of "Donbass" became the end of the second and start of the third period when Donetsk residents played almost two minutes three to five against Kazakhstan. The hosts could not only survive, but three minutes after entering the ice of fifth fielder, to increase the gap to 5-3. Further on the ice it was only one team - Donetsk "Donbass", which brought the score to devastating - 8:3. This is a record of seventh victory in a row for Donbass in VHL. It is also worth noting that in the last three home games Oleksandr Kulikov`s team demonstrated an enviable performance - 20 of goals. One should not forget about the five (!) assists from defender Volodymyr Malevich. The fourth goal in the game scored by Evgeni Belukhin, began his fifth winning goal in the season, which brought him to leading as striker of VHL on this indicator. It is interesting that today's match in Donetsk for the first time in the history of VHL was held without the participation of Russian teams. "Donbass" gaining 52 points after 23 games, and continues to lead the Western Conference standings VHL, ahead of closest pursuer "Neftyanik" for four points.
Second game against the "Ustinka" "Donbass" will hold tomorrow, 15 November at 7:00 p.m. at the site of Arena "Druzhba".
"Donbass" (Donetsk) - "Kazzinc-Torpedo" (Ust-Kamenogorsk) - 8:3 (2:1, 2:2, 4:0)
November 14, 2011. 19:00. Donetsk. Arena "Friendship". 3257 spectators.
Judges: Kushnir (Yaroslavl), I. Sazonov (Moscow), S. Kapustin (Moscow)
Donbas: Goryachevskih. Lyutkevich - Malevich, Heghine - Dubrovin, Esipov - Tolkunov, Zhurun ??- Belukhin - Piskunov, Borovkov - Varlamov - Kochetkov, Vasilyev - Shafarenko - Materuhin, Gladskih - Isaenko - Tatarinov.
Kazzinc-Torpedo: Ogureshnikov. Korabeynikov - Kolesnikov, Staiger - Shemelin, Koledaev - Bolyakin, Petushkin - Peremikin. Ersikenov - Shirokov - Shin Bernikov - Weissman - Meyer, Dudarev - Shpiler - Savenkov, Yass - Kasatkin - Petrov.
Goals: 0-1. Korabeynikov (Shin, Esirkenov, 03:42 - m.), 1:1 Dubrovin (Heghine, Kochetkov, 11:05 - m.), 2:1 Piskunov (Malevich, 15:31 - m.), 2:2 Bernikov (Meyer, Peremikin, 25:47), 3-2 Kochetkov (Malevich, 29:12), 4-2. Belukhin (Materuhin, Malevich, 33:13), 4:3 Yass (Petrov, 34:59), 5:3 Shafarenko (Heghine, Vasiliev, 44:17), 6:3 Zhurun ??(Malevich, 48:45 - m.), 7:3 Piskunov (Lyutkevich, Malevich, 50:46), 8:3 Vasiliev (Shafarenko, Materuhin, 51:18).
Shots: 34 (14 +11 +9) - 34 (8 +14 +11)
Face-offs: 35 (11 15 9) - 32 (12 +10 +10)
Penalty: 10 (2 +6 +2) - 14 (6 +2 +6)
In the photo: Yevgeny Tsaregorodtsev before the game gets a prize as the best goalkeeper of October in VHL