Boucher’s goal in overtime brought Avangard a home victory over Neftekhimik

On Friday, February 17, Omsk HC Avangard played at home with Neftekhimik in the KHL championship meeting and won. The score is 1:0. Goals from Omsk were scored by Sergei Tolchinsky and Reed Boucher.

On Friday, February 17, in the KHL match, Avangard met Neftekhimik at home and won 1-0. The decisive goal here is scored by forward Reed Boucher.

About how the teams played the first two periods, we have already wrote.

In the third, the guests again fought steadfastly in defense, in the 52nd minute, at the very gate, their player actually caught the puck with his face. But in general, the match seemed to be rolling towards a 1-0 victory for the Hawks. And yet, in the 56th minute, the guests managed to level the score. Mityakin scored from Khokhlov and Poryadin’s passes. The game went into overtime. But it was already short and, to the delight of the fans, turned out to be in favor of the Hawks.

The hosts won the starting throw-in in the 4th period, but it took them about half a minute to get out of their zone. Somehow they unnoticed they removed the goalkeeper and this risk gave them a chance to score – Boucher threw and he was accurate. Some of the fans with joy folded a cardboard noise rattle into an airplane and sent it to the ice – in the end it flew there beautifully. For Bush, by the way, this is the 11th winning goal of the season.

“For us it was a difficult and difficult match, we had left a lot of strength and emotions in Magnitogorsk. The opponent also solves his problems. And we have them. Therefore, it was a hard-fought match, and he had few goals scored.

In the second period, the opponent was a little stronger, but our players fought great. Therefore, I thanked them for playing in such a way that they managed to earn one point. Well done.

Of course, we understood that the scoring chance would come. Waited for it, and patiently. The fact that sooner or later we will create a successful counterattack,” Oleg Leontiev, head coach of Neftekhimik, assessed the meeting.

Earlier we reportedthat Avangard lost at home to Salavat Yulaev.