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Overseas held next matches in the best hockey league in the world. “Pittsburgh” at a party unexpectedly won, “Minnestotu 'defense is in the last game does not look as convincing as at the start of the championship. “Atlanta” on the road overcame “Montreal” in the shootout.

“Penguins”, aim at the playoffs, started to play only in the second period. Prior to this, the entire first third of the match, goalkeeper Denis Sebern guests spinning like a squirrel in a cage. Account at the twenty fourth minute opened Evgeni Malkin, who took the exact transfer Sidney Crosby. Stephen Veylyuks equalized three minutes later, but on the second break when the team went 1-2 on the scoreboard numbers. Malkin once again led the guests in advance. The third period was marked by the same amount of goals, which resulted in a final 2:4. Hockey Center 's State Hockey “with ovations in Minnesota spent Sidney Crosby – the young superstar has returned here after three years, since when he was here in lay level.

Terrible start, “Atlanta” will long continue to impose a black mark on their game. The longer the string of bad luck “woodpeckers,” the harder they come out on the ice and show the level of hockey, which may count Ilya Kovalchuk team and Marianne Hossa. However, professionals should remain so, at least until the end of the contract and the guests began to erode the academic defense of “Montreal”. After winning the first period on rolls 13:2, but without being able to break Carey Price's “woodpeckers,” did not lose hands. This did not happen, even when Alexei Kovalev opened the scoring illogical. It is not known what was going on in the minds of “woodpecker”, but after five minutes they were already in the account: Eric Perrin restored the balance, and Vyacheslav Kozlov led the guests in advance. Yet, two minutes before the meeting, Christopher Higgins presented the “Montreal” overtime. In extra time “Canadians” were closer to victory, but the “woodpecker” lasted. In the shootout at the exact Ilya Kovalchuk shot Kovalev said blunder, and “Atlanta” chalked up a rare match with a positive outcome. Before the meeting, “Canadians' Roman Hamrlik, Bryan Smolinski and Alex Kovalev got the silver stick. Players were awarded this honor for a thousand games played in the NHL.

Games in Edmonton traditionally difficult to “Detroit.” So this time the obvious favorites of the championship pulled out a victory only for twenty-four seconds before the end of regular time. Finn Valteri Filppula with the transfer of Paul Datsyuk struck Dwayne Rolosona. Best player of the championship Henrik Zeterberg scored and this time did not go to the site without replenishment of the account – the Swede scored his tenth goal of the season.

Michael Tymoshenko, Sport . ru

Hockey. NHL. Regular season.

“Minnesota” – “Pittsburgh” – 2:4 (0:0, 1:2, 1:2)

Scorers: Malkin (Crosby, Malone), 23:30 (0:1). Weie (Radivojevic, M. Koivu), 26:14 (1:1). Malkin (Crosby, Malone), 26:29 (1:2). Rolston (M. Koivu, Burns), 46:26 (2:2). Sikora (Crosby, Gonchar), 50:05 (2:3). Crosby (Gonchar, Malkin), 54:29 (2:4).

“Montreal” – “Atlanta” – 2:3 B (0:0, 1:2, 1:0, 0:0, 0:1)

Goals: Kovalev, 28:10, (1-0 – pp).. Perrin, 36:16 (1:1). Viacheslav. Kozlov, 37:13 (1:2). Higgins (S. Koivu, Kovalev), 38:02 (2:2 – big .).

Winning bullet sold Ilya Kovalchuk.

“St. Louis” – “Phoenix” – 1:2 (0:0, 0:0, 1:2)

Goals: Goals: Boyes (Kariya, Tkachuk), 45:52 (1:0). Zigomanis (Z. Michalek), 52:35 (1:1). Shostrem (Vrbata, Ganzal), 57:02 (1:2).

“Calgary” – “Nashville” – 5:1 (1:0, 2:0, 2:1)

Goals: Iginla (Lengkou, Huselius), 03:59 (1:0 – pp).. Lombardi (Iginla, Tanguey), 21:40 (2:0). Huselius (Lengkou, Tanguey), 25:07 (3:0 – pp). Radulov (Suter, Zhidlitski), 42:31 (3:1 – pp). Nystrom (Moss, Lombardi), 54:29 (4:1). Iginla (Tanguey), 59:06 (5:1).

“Edmonton” – “Detroit” – 1:2 (0:0, 1:1, 0:1)

Goals: Zetterberg (Lindstrom, Rafalski), 24:00 (0:1 – pp).. Steyos (Stoll), 25:49 (1:1). Filppula (Datsyuk), 59:35 (1:2).

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