KHL
Lev – Metallurg M 5:4 (after OT)
final/OT
Lev Praha
5:4 (2:1, 1:3, 1:0 - 1:0)
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
Monday 28.04.2014, 19:00 • O2 Arena, Prague • KHL
     
    What an unbelievable game. The momentum swung back and forth, with Lev being the team to score the final goal in front of their adoring home fans.

    Well that's in from Prague for the season. There's one more KHL game in the 2013-14 season and it will be in Magnitogorsk on Wednesday, 19:00 YEKT, 15:00 CEST, 09:00 EDT.

    These two teams have gone back and forth in this series, and have now traded overtime wins on home ice to set up a one-game, winner-take-all for the Gagarin Cup. (22:22:28)
     
    Game over.
     
    63:53
    Goal for Lev!
    Lev came back quickly the other way, a long shot from Zackrisson trickles through Koshechkin and he saves it from going over the line. Then Metallurg can't get it out of the zone and Zackrisson took another long shot. Koshechkin stopped it but was still off balance and NATHAN OYSTRICK got two whacks at the puck, the second one from below the goal line banked in off Koshechkin's right leg and across the goal line. We're going to game 7!
    Assist: Patrik Zackrisson.
     
    63:40
    Mozyakin with a pass, great save Vehanen.
     
    62:56
    Puck deflects into the Metallurg bench, faceoff at centre ice.
     
    62:40
    Novotny and Maenpaa take shots, Koshechkin one save, the next one blocked, and now play is stopped because the Metallurg net is dislodged. Faceoff in the Metallurg zone.
     
    61:25
    Ridderwall a long backhander, blocker save Koshechkin for the first shot of overtime.
     
    61:12
    Icing Lev.
     
    60:01
    Overtime began.
     
    The teams are returning to the ice, and the first overtime period will start soon.

    You can feel the nervous tension in this building. The Gagarin Cup is in the building too. Will it be presented tonight, or on Wednesday in Magnitogorsk?
     
    Game 6 of the Gagarin Cup Finals is going to overtime. Why not?

    After this game was played at a breakneck pace for 40 minutes, Metallurg tried to sit back and protect the lead in the third period, and that might have been a mistake. Mikko Maenpaa scored the tying goal with 2:21 left in regulation time. If Lev score the next goal, we go to game 7, if Metallurg score the KHL season is over.

    Shots on goal in the 3rd period (and game): Lev 5 (28), Metallurg 8 (30).

    Quality scoring chances: Lev 2 (12), Metallurg 2 (13).

    Sudden-death overtime begins at 21:24 CEST, 01:24 YEKT, 15:24 EDT.
     
    60:00
    3rd period finished.
     
    59:11
    Lee shoots wide, finally the puck comes to Vehanen and he covers it.
     
    58:50
    Puck chipped in deep into the Metallurg zone . . .
     
    57:39
    Goal for Lev!
    Wow! They were getting nothing as Metallurg sat back defending, but finally they get a shot through after the puck came out of a scramble along the boards, MIKKO MAENPAA wristed it through a crowd and this game is tied 4-4!
     
    56:50
    Gragnani blasts a long shot well wide of the target.
     
    56:50
    Gragnani blasts a long shot well wide of the target.
     
    56:00
    Lev with the puck around the edges in the zone but can't get anything to the net, as Metallurg is back in a shell.
     
    54:45
    Cingel from the right wing, stick save Koshechkin.
     
    54:03
    Pare leads a rush against the flow of play, pad save Vehanen, Lev back the other way.

    Derek OBrien

    Goals and assists: 14. Azevedo (Vrana, Nemec), 20. Sevc (Nemec, Azevedo), 28. O'Byrne (Birner, Repik), 58. Maenpaa, 64. Oystrick (Zackrisson) – 10. Mozyakin (Zaripov, Kovar), 23. Yunkov (Osala, Tereschenko), 25. Lee (Brent, Timkin), 39. Pare (Mozyakin)


    Lev Praha: Vehanen (Engren) – Ševc, Mäenpää, Oystrick, Němec, Gragnani, O'Byrne, Jaakola, Nakládal – Zackrisson, Novotný, Azevedo –Sekáč, Vrána, Thörnberg – Birner, Kapanen, Řepík – Ridderwall, Cingel, Matai.
    Metallurg Magnitogorsk: Koshechkin (Pekhursky) – Antipin, Biryukov, Khabarov, Tereschenko, Lee, Ibragimov, Metlyuk, Malinovsky – Mozyakin, Kovář, Zaripov – Potekhin, Kazionov, Paré – Kosov, Yunkov, Platonov – Osala, Brent, Timkin.

    Referees: Bulanov, Rönn -