In Nizhni Novgorod local “torpedo” played with St. Petersburg SKA in the next game day in the regular championship of the Continental hockey League. The match was very hard and to the last remained the intrigue. However, guests won with the score 3:2.
the Army men started the game very cool and to 11-th minute led 2:0 after exact throws Cocciante and Kemppainen. But Avtozavodtsev in the first period narrowed the gap (Urakov), and the second equalized (Jafarov). The third segment of the game passed in equal fight, and it went to overtime, but in the 57th minute winning goal scored player of SKA Lehtera.
Army team won its seventh straight game and tenth in the last 11 meetings. They are in second place in the regular season. “Torpedo” occupies the 8th place in the Western conference, the last of those that give the right to play in the playoffs. But the cuts will still have to compete.
