«Saryarka» crushes «Sputnik» in VHL
ASTANA. December 3. KAZINFORM - Karaganda "Saryarka" has won a victory over a strong-willed "Sputnik" in Nizhny Tagil (Russia), Vesti.kz reports.
This success has become the third victory for the wards of Dusan Gregor. In the beginning of the game Ilya Antonovskiy made the first goal opening the event - 0:1. But before the end of the first period "Saryarka" confirmed its status as favorite owing to Oleg Lomako and Dmitry Vasilyev who disappointed the opponents' goalkeeper. After the third goal "Sputnik" replaced the goalkeeper.
In the second game Esmuhanbet Tolepbergen and Vitaliy Aab put pucks into the ''Sputnik'' gates scoring 4:1. Fifth and sixth goals were made by Vladislav Luchkin and Eugeniy Gladyshev and Michal Macho marking the duplicate brought the margin to indecent - 8:2. Thus, "Saryarka" took revenge for its defeat in Karaganda.
The victory allowed the Karaganda team having 47 points to catch up to the leading group of the Higher Hockey League (VHL) which already includes another Kazakh team called "Kazzinc -Torpedo" from Ust-Kamenogorsk. The team of Ust-Kamenogorsk will play with the hockey team from Balashikha "Dinamo" and "Saryarka" will play away with the Tyumen HC "Rubin".