HC Salavat Yulaev scored victory over HC Sochi on home ice

UFA, 28 February 2018. /Bashinform News Agency, Natalia Ovcharuk/. The "Ufa-Arena" has not host KHL games for five weeks. Fans of Salavat Yulaev waited for foreign hockey players from Sweden, Finland and Canada. A bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang Ben Scrivens arrived in Ufa, but did not take part in the match with Sochi due to trauma. The gates were defended by Andrey Kareev.

The home team began the first period not very actively. Only at the end of the frame, Salavat Yulaev managed to hit the net of Konstantin Barulin. Linus Omark made an accurate throw - 1: 0.

Six minutes after the break the Sochi residents equalized the score - Egor Morozov scored a goal. After a while, the teams exchanged penalties. Then the Barulin’s net turned out be under a series of attacks, which ended in a goal scored by Joonas Kemppainen - 2: 1.

After the second break, emotions ran high on the ice, which transformed into the third washer of Salavat scored by Tkachev. The next match HC Salavat Yulaev will hold with the Kazan Ak Bars on March 1.