Moscow « Dynamo » went to the semifinals of the Gagarin Cup
The second after the “tractor” by the semi-finalist of Play -off “Fonbet” of the KHL championship was the Moscow Dynamo. Extremely unsuccessfully starting the quarter -final series against Ak Bars, it broke its move, completing the confrontation of an amazingly confident victory in the sixth match with a score of 6: 1. In the next round, the Dynamo will meet just with the Tractor.
This series, it seems, should raise Dynamo quotes to an incredible height. The metropolitan club had a terribly complex Play-OFF grid, but he knocked out of it the second consecutive Grand with a chic composition and grandiose ambitions, following SKA sorting out the Ak Bars, which was also tailored to the fight for the Gagarin Cup.
Moreover, in the quarterfinal confrontation, Dynamo managed to survive such a start that seemed to promise him a complete catastrophe – from two domestic defeats. But after them, the Dynamo won four victories, and in the final game they literally humiliated the powerful opponent.
This match suggested for some time that observation of him would become the same test, and only a veteran-organ who is accustomed to look carefully at motionless reeds for hours to see how one day to see how a rare heron flies out for hours. Both teams were careful, blowing on the water, and at risk treated as something completely criminal. It seemed that so slowly, at the slightest sign of danger, striving back, they could ride all three periods. In the end, the price of the meeting is an approach, what can I say, justified.
But no, suddenly everything was aggravated. And the balance was broken, one might say, from scratch. Well, who would have thought what this leisurely entrance to the Dynamo Zhordan Will of Dynamo will result in? Wil climbed into the corner, his partners were not eager to support him, and there was a good Kazan defender Mitchell Miller nearby. A hopeless, in general, for the striker, the situation. Meanwhile, Wil, still leisurely turned around and moved to the patch. Accompanied by Miller, but accompaniment is so delicate that the guardian did not dare to approach for some reason, retained the social distance, as at the peak of the Pandemia of Coronavirus. Wil got to the gate and with an uncomfortable hand threw the puck in the upper corner.
And then the Ak Bars for the release of the puck, as if the violation in such a match, was removed by Koshelev’s seeds. Most Dynamo played so -so. But when Koshelev had already jumped from the bench on the ice, Dylan Sikura threw from the blue line. It might seem that he had abandoned at the rack, simply because there was no other option. But in front of the goalkeeper Amir Miftakhov stood Dynamo Maxim Gioshvili. And for some reason, none of the Kazan remembered that such “pillars” should be pushed away in any way. After all, they close the review of the goalkeeper, he does not see the puck.
So Ak Bars missed again, and his coach Anvar Gatiyatulin replaced Miftakhov with Timur Bilyalov. Although, for sure, Gatiyatulin himself understood that it was not a matter of the goalkeeper. But he needed his almost drowned team of shake, at least such. Ak Bars really came to itself a little. But for the first time, he first created a truly dangerous moment before the completion of the starting period, when the Dynamo gate was attacked by Alexander Barabanov.
No, life in it did not bake after that. “Ak Bars” remained the same – lethargic, constrained by Dynamo’s hands and feet so that everything that was permitted to him came down, in essence, to harmless attempts to break through the goalkeeper of the guests of Vladislav Poyapolsky from the blue line. And he could not get rid of stupid mistakes.
Stupid, for example, was the removal of Artem Galimov in the middle of the second period. For some reason, Galimov twice moved a club on the hands of the opponent. This time, Dynamo was punished by Ak Bars instantly – the won, the throwing, the throw of Maxim Komatui, who was helped by the namesake Gioshvili, who again played an inconspicuous, but extremely useful role of the “shielding” goalkeeping overview of the element.
And soon Artem Ilyenko flashed with a beautiful solo. The Dynamo striker rushed forward, covered the puck with the corps from Daniil Zhuravlev and rolled it into the net, at the same time by bonus earned the removal. This is Albert Yarullin, lifting the club, hit it in the face of Ilyenko. Everything that evening fell out of the hands of the Kazan. Everything went wrong.
The last period was something like torture for the audience. The chances of escaping is zero. From the fact that the score was soaked, no joy. And the attempts of Anvara Gatiyatulin at least correct something, cleaning the goalkeeper on the bench for the release of the sixth field player, only helped the maximum of the cometo to make a hat-trick. In the semi -final series, the Moscow Dynamo will play against the “tractor”, which even faster, in five meetings, got off with Dynamo Minsk and which will have the advantage of its site.
