Blue-and-Whites leave it late, Pilipenko sinks Barys

A goal from Devin Brosseau five seconds from time saved Dynamo Moscow from defeat at Admiral. After a 3-3 tie, the visitor won the shoot-out in Vladivostok. Saturday’s second game was the Kirill Pilipenko show. The Severstal forward scored two and assisted on Nikita Kamalov’s winner in a 3-2 success at home to Barys.  

Late show saves Dynamo

Admiral Vladivostok 3 Dynamo Moscow 4 SO (1-0, 2-2, 0-1, 0-0, 0-1)

Saturday turned out to be a day to forget for Admiral. Up 3-2 with five seconds to play, the Sailors could not close out the win. Then, in overtime, the home team had a goal disallowed for offside before losing in a shoot-out.



That gave Dynamo a much-needed boost after a difficult start to the season saw the Muscovites drop four of their first five games. The visitor also had to cope without defensive leader Daniil Pylenkov due to injury, while Admiral brought Ostap Safin back onto the second line.

Admiral had enjoyed shut-outs in its previous two games, helped by some disciplined hockey that has seen the Sailors take fewer penalties than any other team so far this season. At the same time, Admiral’s power play has not been impressive, but against a Dynamo PK that is also struggling, it made the early breakthrough here. Kyle Olson punished Kirill Adamchuk’s foul, and that lead held to the first intermission even though Dynamo arguably had the better of the play.

At the start of the second period, Admiral struck again. It took just 21 seconds for Arkady Shestakov to double the home lead.

But that long shut-out streak was about to come to an end. Max Comtois beat Adam Huska after 164:22, scoring on the power play. That penalty was served by Alexander Shepelev. The same player went back to the box soon after and picked up an extra two minutes for voicing his frustrations to the officials. Jordan Weal tied the game, but then fell foul of the referees himself. He was joined on the sidelines by Maxim Mamin, and a five-on-three advantage saw Yegor Petukhov restore the home lead.

For much of the game, the Muscovites were noticeably slower. However, the visitor picked up the pace in the third period. For more than five minutes Dynamo kept the puck alive, mostly in Admiral territory, but struggled to turn possession into chances. Later, Cedric Paquette twice went to the sin bin, but Admiral was unable to extend its lead on either occasion. However, by the time the teams were back at equal strength, Dynamo had barely five minutes to save the game and looked to be running out of ideas. With Admiral scenting victory, there was a dramatic twist: on 59:55, Mamin caused chaos on the crease and Devin Brosseau took advantage to tie the game.

Brosseau’s first goal for the club saved Dynamo from defeat and overtime started like the end of regulation, with Dynamo on the attack. But it was the home team that came closest to winning in the extras. Motorygin twice stopped certain goals and when he was beaten at last an offside call saved him and his team. Then, in the shoot-out, Motorygin, Nikita Gusev and Comtois got it over the line for the Blue-and-Whites.

Pilipenko leads Severstal to victory

Severstal Cherepovets 3 Barys Astana 2 (1-2, 2-0, 0-0)

Two goals from Kirill Pilipenko earned Severstal a first home win of the season. The Lynx came from behind to snap a two-game skid in Cherepovets and defeat Barys.



For Pilipenko, consistently among Severstal’s scoring leaders in the last three campaigns, this season got off to a slightly slow start. The forward had two points in his first five games, a strike rate some way short of the last two years.

But today he had a hand in all three Severstal goals to secure a 3-2 verdict.

Pilipenko started by converting the first power play of the game to give the host a sixth-minute lead. He rifled home a shot from the right-hand circle off

Mikhail Ilyin’s feed. Severstal continued to have more of the play in the first period, but was stung by two goals in 20 seconds as Barys turned things around midway through the session. Mason Morelli tied it up on 12:37, then Vladimir Volkov put the Kazakhs up 2-1 with his first goal of the season.

In the second stanza, Severstal was even more dominant. Barys managed just one shot at Vsevolod Skotnikov, but held onto its lead until the 35th minute. Then the host scored two in quick succession to turn the game around.

First, Pilipenko tied it up with his second of the net when he flashed in a shot from between the hash marks after Vladislav Tsitsyura’s face-off win. Then he and Ilyin combined for Nikita Kamalov to deflect the puck home on 35:58 to make it 3-2.

That was the end of the scoring. In the final frame, Barys posed more of an attacking threat but never really generated the kind of pressure that looked capable of tying the game. Hopes of a late surge were undermined when Samat Daniyar was assessed a tipping minor in the 59th minute. Severstal was able to close out the game, and Barys could not even get goalie Andrei Shutov to the sidelines and introduce an extra skater.