Sakhalin Sharks scored four goals in the match with HC AKM-Junior

Sakhalin Sharks, after success in St. Petersburg and Kondopoga, arrived in Tula, where they played the first of four matches in the ongoing away series. The new rival was the AKM-Junior team. Island hockey players were able to extend the winning streak to five games. This was reported in the press service of “Sharks”.

The Sharks coaching staff minimized lineup changes – Kirill Sidnev replaced Ilya Koval in the third pair of defense, and Artem Eremin became the 13th forward, while Timofey Timokhin remained out of the squad.

“AKM-Junior”, having come out of a protracted dive in confrontations with “Typhoon”, briskly started a new game. The hosts of the ice seized the advantage in the first period and rerolled the Sharks with a difference of 14:6. The double majority helped the Tula players especially after playing with a high stick from Alexander Kokarev – it was realized by Kirill Guryanov.

“Sharks” two and a half minutes later bounced back. Alexander Fesenko threw the puck into the zone, was the first to come to the rebound and made a discount on Yuri Larin – the birthday man, who celebrated his 19th birthday that day, did not miss from a lethal position.

However, AKM-Junior again snatched the advantage – at first, Stanislav Pylaev saved the Sharks after losing the puck in his zone, but in the next attack, Ilya Gusmanov still scored a goal. 2:1 to break. The second period has already passed with a reverse advantage. Sakhalin hockey players spent almost the entire period in the attack zone and attacked the gates of Kirill Zarubin 20 times, but the hosts’ goalkeeper held out. His counterpart at the Sharks’ goal responded in kind.

A second before the end of the period, the Sakhalin team received the majority. After almost two minutes in the attack at the start of the third period, the Sharks managed to score – Ruslan Tyutyunnikov played on the rebound after Konstantin Dochkin’s shot. The judges examined the moment for a violation of the rules for some time, but counted the goal.

Then the game went on with varying success for both teams. The Sakhalin team played more aggressively and more dangerously, but AKM-Junior completely blocked the top three of the Sakhalin Sharks. It was necessary to solve the game with other links and the Far East coped with the task. The role of leaders was assumed by the third trio. From her came such a necessary third goal. Danila Belov pushed the ex-Sharks defender Alexander Kramarenko on the flank, got close to the goalkeeper and made allowances for Ramil Abitov, who came running, who closed the rally with a goal in the fall.

In the remaining time, the Sharks retained the advantage in the game and took advantage of the empty net of the hosts – Alexander Morozov received the puck from Pavel Kolotygin and hit the target a second before the siren, scoring his 28th goal of the season. The result is 4:2, the Sakhalin Sharks win their fifth victory in a row.

On January 24 at 13:00 Moscow time (21:00 local time) the teams will play again. The game in Tula will be broadcast live by the official YouTube channel of the MHL.