“Sakhalin Sharks” snatched victory from the leader of the MHL – “Loko”

The Sakhalin Sharks made a scoring sensation in the game with the OLIMPBET leader of the JHL Championship – Loko. The game in Yaroslavl ended with the victory of the Sakhalin team with a score of 6:5. This was reported in the press service of the hockey club.

After the defeat in the shootout in Cherepovets, the coaching staff of the Sakhalin Sharks made minimal changes in the line-up – from the first minutes a goalkeeper appeared at the gate Stanislav Pylaevthe place of the 13th striker received Dmitry Bogdanovand the center forward Artyom Eremin remained in stock.

Before the match against the Sakhalin Sharks, Loko had impeccable statistics – 14 wins in a row, 19 matches with points scored in a row, a couple of devastating victories over the Far East rivals in the previous two games, the score of victories was 15:1 in head-to-head meetings between the teams. However, the Sakhalin team is a team that knows how to surprise. Even if at first everything was not conducive to sensations.

Opened the score in the 4th minute with a spectacular shot Maxim Korostelev – it seemed that the scenario invented by Loko was starting to come true. However, the Sharks held back further pressure and turned the game around. At the 13th minute of the game Danil Pivchulin finished off the puck with a roundhouse shot after an attack Anton Danilov and equalized. Then the Sakhalin team got the majority, which they realized with an ideally accurate throw Alexander Morozov. The Sharks went into the first break with an unexpected advantage.

The sequel is even more interesting. The second period began with a positional attack by the Sakhalin team, which ended with an assist Anton Danilov. After this goal, Loko goalkeeper Maxim Mayorov gave way to his backup Oleg Kadyrov. Following this, the Sharks violated the rules twice – Loko players implemented each of the removals. Distinguished Daniel But and Dmitry Yabelov. 3:3 – and this is in 24 minutes.

The Sharks could get lost from such a comeback by the hosts, but they chose to knock out the main favorites of the season again. Not a minute passed as an interception from Timofey Barsukov in a foreign zone ended with an assist to a free Ruslana Tyutyunnikova, who outplayed the goalkeeper in close combat. Then the Sakhalin residents received a removal, but Alexander Morozov and Rashid Dashtemirov ran into a lightning-fast counterattack – throwing the first, finishing off the second, the Sharks’ fifth goal of the match.

Loko’s players became nervous about this and broke the rules themselves. Alexey Kozhevnikov received a 5+20 fine and went to the locker room for a head attack Andrey Romanchenko. This was followed by another removal, and the Sakhalin Sharks played the majority – a pass Danila Pivchulina finished with his second goal shot Rashid Dashtemirov. Even before the break, Loko retaliated one goal – defender Nikita Vasiliev successfully hit with a long throw. According to the results of two periods, incredible figures were burning on the scoreboard – 4:6.

The favorites were not going to give up and in the third period Loko rolled forward with all its might. Two successive removals from Sakhalin resulted in a goal for Yaroslavl — it took three seconds Yeremey Shumilin and Daniil Shumilinto lead on an assist shot Egor Surin. The pace of Loko only increased. The Sharks had to fight off one attack after another and hold off the most powerful onslaught they had seen this season. They even succeeded. The puck was inches from the goal line, but did not crawl further. In one of the episodes, she hit the crossbar with such speed that the judges needed to watch a video replay. The main intrigue was the question – will the “Sharks” be able to hold out until the siren.

The difference of throws in the third period was crushing – 22:2. However, the goalkeeper Stanislav Pylaev missed no more, despite the most decisive assault from the leaders of the OLIMPBET Championship of the JHL. Loko made 99 shots per match – five of them were in the net, 15 went wide, 20 were blocked by Shark field players, and 54 times the team was saved Stanislav Pylaev.

The Sakhalin Sharks sensationally defeated Loko Yaroslavl, breaking their winning streak at 14 matches. The final score in the game with the leaders of the season is 6:5 in favor of the island team.

This is the first victory in Yaroslavl in the history of the Sakhalin team. Previously, the islanders defeated Loko only once in history – also 6:5, but in a shootout, on September 26, 2015 on the ice of the Arena City complex in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

“Sakhalin Sharks” rise to 4th place in the “Silver” division. The backlog from the coveted trio is now 5 points. The island team will play the following matches against a direct competitor for getting into the play-in – the Dynamo-Shinnik team from the Republic of Belarus. Team matches in Minsk will be held on November 30 and December 1.