Khabarovsk “Amur” beat “Traktor” on the road with a score of 3:2

Khabarovsk “Amur” arrived in Chelyabinsk after a very difficult home series, where they played four matches with “Lada” and “Ak Bars”. The games turned out to be intense and with varying degrees of success. If two meetings with Tolyatti residents The Tigers won, then two with Kazan – lost. But even despite defeat in the final matchAndrei Martemyanov noted that he was pleased with the quality of his team’s play, which had finally begun to form into a real hockey team.

Before flying to the shores of Miass, individual members of the team, especially Alexander Khokhlachev, who arrived from Moscow Spartak, created a stir in Khabarovsk. The forward ran through someone else’s car at 4 am. The owner was sitting inside and was clearly not happy with the hockey player’s antics. He explained his behavior by saying that he wanted to joke. A video of the incident went viral and the club apologized. Khokhlachev was fined. As noted at Amur, work will be done with the players to demonstrate their physical condition on the ice, and not on the streets.

Be that as it may, in the first away game, Alexander Khokhlachev took to the court and proved that he still had the strength to do more than just jump on other people’s cars. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. As for Traktor, he had just returned home from a very difficult tour and was eager to win. Especially with the support of his fans. Both teams took to the ice charged and motivated. Dmitry Lozebnikov stood in goal at Amur, and Zach Fucale at Traktor.

In the opening of the game, the initiative belonged more to the tractor, the Khabarovsk residents snapped dangerously. At the 7th minute of the match, the hosts managed to open the scoring. First, Nikita Tertyshny made an accurate pass to the spot where Vladimir Tkachev was rolling, the goalkeeper came to the rescue, but then Viktor Antipin threw it and scored the first goal in this match. But the music did not play for long, already in the 11th minute the Khabarovsk team won back. “Traktor” carried out a positional attack in the “Amur” zone, but the Khabarovsk team was able to intercept the puck and went into the lead with virtually four of them rolling on two defenders. Alexander Khokhlachev scored the goal.

In the second period, “Amur” seized the initiative, which resulted in a goal scored by Sergei Kolesnikov in the 32nd minute of the match. This, by the way, was his first game in the KHL and immediately his first goal. What is called: went out and scored. Respect. Separately, it is worth noting the assist of Anatoly Nikontsev, who managed to keep the puck in someone else’s zone and literally put it on a silver platter for a sniper shot to the Sokol forward playing for Khabarovsk.

The third goal against Traktor in the 38th minute was scored by Anatoly Nikontsev himself and this is also his first goal for the Khabarovsk team this season. Again, a rapid counterattack from “Amur”, a magnificent pass or throw from Yakov Rylov, Nikontsev’s one-to-one goal and the puck in Zach Fucale’s goal. The hosts were able to slightly adjust the score only in the third period; after Kirill Kapustin was sent off, Traktor found themselves in the majority, and Vitaly Kravtsov managed to convert the majority in the 57th minute.

Two minutes before the final serena, Traktor releases a sixth field player instead of the goalkeeper and rushes into the attack. The power of the attack is evidenced by the fact that in this period of the game alone the “tigers” blocked 11 shots, and Dmitry Lozebnikov saved another 13. The statistics for the game are even more impressive – 41 blocked shots for Amur, 28 reflected goals for Lozebnikov.

The result is a strong-willed victory for the Khabarovsk team with a score of 3:2. And “Amur” again rises to the top eight.

“Tough match. It was assumed that the opponent would mostly play in attack. We defended selflessly, thanks to our goalkeeper. Still, the man is from the VHL and plays confidently. We caught Traktor on counterattacks, scored goals, the game was good. Blocked shots? This is what modern hockey requires. The guys came out charged, I’m very pleased with this component. Now victories are hard to come by, the league has leveled off. Anyone can beat anyone. This is an important element of modern hockey – catching the puck on yourself. Games take place every other day and it is important that goalkeepers are in good shape and not too tired. This gives a positive boost to the team – not only goals scored, but also blocked shots are welcomed. Alexander Khokhlachev? I saw that he was charged before the game. Well done for scoring. Good goal, God forbid we continue like this. Who doesn’t experience such incidents in life? I was also young, my older comrades helped me and set me on the right path to be a worthy member of our society. We don’t abandon our people. If there are any attempts towards Alexander, I will defend him in every conceivable and inconceivable way. I won’t hurt my guys. People make mistakes, there’s nothing wrong with that. A normal person will always perceive this adequately and bring more benefits,” noted Andrei Martemyanov, head coach of HC Amur, after the game.

In its turn Acting head coach of Traktor Alexey Zavarukhinalso noted the very large number of blocked pucks at Amur and paid tribute to the courage and dedication of the Khabarovsk hockey players.

Next match “Amur” will be held next Thursday, October 19 in Yekaterinburg with the local “Avtomobilist”. May be, will take revengegood car jumping experience at least one Tigers forward already has.

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Alexander Khokhlachev will be fined by Khabarovsk “Amur”. The club considered the player’s behavior unacceptable and promised to do everything to ensure that hockey players prove themselves on the ice and not in other people’s cars.

“Amur” again lost to “Ak Bars” in Khabarovsk, but this time managed to earn one point. The teams finished the main time by scoring two goals each; Ak Bars scored the third, winning one, in overtime