Salavat Yulaev won Kunlun Red Star with minimum score

UFA, 21 November 2019. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

A short break between the matches of HC Salavat Yulaev affected the team’s game. The Ufa team in the fight with Kunlun Red Star looked tired: the attack line barely organized dangerous moments at the net of Jeremy Smith. However, in the first period, the best forward of Salavat Yulaev and the KHL at the moment managed to bring the team ahead. Nikita Soshnikov assisted by Mikhail Pashnin and new partner in the line Maxim Mayorov changed the score on the scoreboard - 1: 0.

After the break, the rivals showed tight-checking game but guests from China possessed the puck more and had more shots than Ufa players.

A minute and a half before the final siren, Kunlun took a timeout and replaced the goalkeeper with a field player in order to score at least one point and put the game in overtime. It did not work out. Salavat Yulaev interrupts a two-match series of defeats with a minimum score victory. The second puck, performed by Eduard Gimatov, nevertheless hit the empty net of the guests, but after the siren.

The team of Nikolai Tsulygin will hold the next meeting at the Ufa-Arena against Amur on November 22.