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Самая замечательное что произошло в этом мини отпуске - это встреча с моими друзьями волонтёрами...в этот раз поменяли футбол на хоккей)) и где ещё увидишь фанатов Салавата Юлаева и Ак Барса в обнимку)) #волонтерство #volunteers2018 #hcsalavat #hcakbars https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8T_f-hqo_mc65DP4E6q9JL5L77P8C0g6jZFo0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16koj0v80sro3

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Съездили в г. Казань на праздник хоккея Матч всех звёзд, было здорово...очень болели за наших ребят из Салават Юлаева, которые играли за девизион Чернышева #khlallstar2019 #hcsalavat https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8EhFehTwZXpEYjyHjXAId0Q348d2ENGbtOlA0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wr8d5873xotc

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Первая игра ХК Салават Юлаев в 10 сезоне КХЛ прошла удачно...выиграли у ХК Адмирал со счётом 3-1 #hcsalavat #hcadmiral #кхл

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12.08 очень насыщенный день)) день болельщика хк Салават Юлаев и фк Уфа играет с фк Ростов #hcsalavat #fcufa #fcrostov

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HCSalavat Gets Back in the Series. Salavat Yulaev - Ak Bars 4:3. February 26, 2017

Today the 3rd game of the Green Derby series has been played and it was crucial for Salavat to win it. 2:0 after the two games in Kazan made it catastrophically necessary to reconsider the team's play. Salavat Yulaev completely lost first two games physically, the players seemed much slower. Ak Bars sweeped all before themselves. It was really interesting to see what Salavat was going to do with that. Ufa has met the first game of this season's play-offs brilliantly. The city has waited for this the whole year and for some time the fans had doubts regarding hitting the play-offs. But now, 26 February, the first home game of the Gagarin Cup, the Green Derby. What can be better? Only the win over Ak Bars. The most unexpected, surprising, illogical, shocking thing about the roster of Salavat Yulaev was announced 2 hours before the game. Andrei Gavrilov substitutes Niklas Svedberg in the net, he will start the game. 'What? Are you insane, Zakharkin?', fans had this silent question in their minds. In order for you to understand, firstly Gavrilov has never played at such top level games as the Green Derby, especially in play-offs, secondly Salavat lost 2 games - they have to win this one, thirdly Svedberg showed excellent play in the two previous games - there was no his guilt in the conceded goals. This Zakharkin's move didn't make sense at all. Not only fans but all the experts didn't understand that. I don't say that Gavrilov is a bad goalie, he's good but he doesn't have such experience as Svedberg does. Igor Zakharkin made quite a lot of changes in the roster. This time he brought Kaprizov and Vorobyov back together, Linus Omark was the band-master. Denis Parshin joined Enver Lisin, the man of the game by the way, and Evgeny Bodrov in the second line. Igor Grigorenko took Kaprizov's place in the third line. I agree with the head coach regarding the roster, I think this is the most efficient combination of players which are ready to play. The game started with Salavat's long attacks which were planned to break Ak Bars right from the start. I think, we could watch at it from two points of view. It's important for Ufa to score as many goals and to win the game. On the other hand, Ak Bars had the right for a mistake and there was no need to strive this time. Salavat seemed much more ready physically, the work was shown. It brought benefits immediately. Denis Khlystov, the former captain of Salavat Yulaev who plays now for Kazan, got double penalty for roughing and Kirill Kaprizov scored an opener assisted by Linus Omark. The most creative pair of forwards started to work again together.

No time to stop, Salavat had to score again. This is the time when Denis Kulyash, the Tsar-Pushka of the KHL, kicks into action. Kulyash on his own enters the away zone and without hesitation slapshots. When you see that, usually you say he took the spider's web. The puck hit the very top left corner, such an amazing shot Kulyash has.

Salavat showed really fascinating play in the first period. They had plenty of chances and a rain of powerplay. But I think the team played as much as Ak Bars allowed them to play. This is just my humble opinion, but you could see that. Sometimes in powerplay it seemed that Ak Bars just gave away the puck and Salavat players didn't know what to do with it. They could score more and more but there was no classic creativity seen. According to the stats, Ufa made 15 shots on goal against 3. Gavrilov didn't have to even raise a hand. But horrible things started in the end of the period. Stepan Zakharchuk as the biggest and the baddest player of Ak Bars makes a dirty and heavy head shot on small Anton Lazarev. The Arena and all the commentators cry in terror for Lazarev. We know how dirty Zakharchuk can be, but really? The refs give only 2 minutes for charging. The result - no Lazarev, 2 minutes for Zakharhuck.

Unfortunately Salavat couldn't score in this powerplay, this would a huge revenge. Now passing over to the second period. Initially things were good, Ak Bars gets one more penalty - Rafael Batyrshin for tripping, Linus Omark as the director of all the attack this time scores himself. There was some beauty in this goal. Linus recovers from a heavy injury, comes back on track in two previous games, and becomes the leader in the third game and scores a screamer. Only Linus can do that, not anyone else.

So, 3:0 at the start of the second period. Time to celebrate? Did you really think that Ak Bars would give up so easily? In 24 seconds Fyodor Malykhin makes the Arena fall silent. Unfortunately, this was only the beginning. Ak Bars increases the speeds, makes much more shots, and already Salavat doesn't seem stable. Igor Grigorenko get penalty for tripping and Jiri Sekac realizes the powerplay. Probably that wasn't enough for Igor. He goes to penalty box once again, now Justin Azevedo equalizes the score. Andrei Gavrilov thus wasn't Zakharkin's best move tonight. Still, why would he choose him? No one knows. After that Svedberg comes on ice, the Arena breathes a sigh of relief. Igor Grigorenko probably was too nervous in this game, because he gets one more penalty at the end of the 2nd period. He totally failed the game. The captain of the team, cannot afford to leave the team shorthanded three times in such an important game. Fortunately Ak Bars couldn't take that advantage in the 3rd period. Now we know that not only Salavat can make amazing come backs. But it's more important to stay psychologically stable when you lead by 3 goals and the opponent equalizes the game. So did Salavat Yulaev. Enver Lisin makes his biggest effort in this series so far. Assisted by Denis Parshin he scores the game winner.

Now it's easier to breathe for me and all the Salavat Yulaev fans. We still believe in all the players, coaches, in the whole team. We believe that on 28 February Salavat Yulaev will make it 2:2 in the series and start everything over in Kazan.

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Ak Bars Doubles the Lead over HCSalavat. February 25, 2017.

The Green Derby continues in the Gagarin Cup play-off series between Salavat Yulaev Ufa and Ak Bars Kazan. The first game ended with 2:1 in favour of Kazan and a massive scandal due to doubtfully legal goal scored by Atte Ohtamaa. You can see the details in my previous post. In the first game Ak Bars seemed much better in the 1st and the 3rd periods, their head coach said that they have made conclusions regarding the 2nd period which was won by Salavat completely. The game showed that Ak Bars have really made conclusions, they've bettered.

As for the rosters, HCSalavat again has more injured players. Two players of the two first lines - Dmitry Makarov and Maksim Mayorov got injured in the previous game. Mayorov has recently become one of the leaders, so this is a huge loss. So, only young players could substitute them - Mikhail Kotlyarevsky and Stepan Khripunov. Linus Omark went to the first line, and Evgeny Bodrov upped to the 2nd line substituting Makarov. The rest was the same as in the previous game. As compared to the first game, this time Salavat starts the game in offense. This is normal, because Ufa needs the victory more. But the starting rush was easily neutralized by Ak Bars in 10 minutes. Moreover, on the 15th minute Fyodor Malykhin opens the score in powerplay.

This wasn't really typical for powerplay, because Ak Bars made a transition attack. Opening goal means much in play-offs, especially when the teams are close in strength. If in the first game, Salavat responded immediately, this time Ak Bars was able to neutralize all the attempts.

Now, the second period, which was pretty good for Salavat in the first game. Tonight, we saw which conclusions Bilyaletdinov make regarding the 2nd period. His team was fast, the play speed seems the defining component in this series. If you are physically prepared, you are faster, that means the opponent cannot always keep pace with you. This happened to Salavat, the boys weren't able to do anything. They made even less shots on goal than in the first period - 5 vs 7 (1st period). In the third period, Ak Bars could play their classical Bilyaletdinov's hockey. Due to Lepisto's mistake Mikhail Glukhov scored right from the start and Ak Bars parked the bus on their blue line. Tonight Sami Lepisto was really active, but all this activeness brought only loss. In last 10 minutes finally Salavat was able to attack in their own style. When the time board showed 8:03 minutes left, Enver Lisin scored due to Tkachyov's mistake.

You have to understand, Salavat scored only because of Ak Bars's mistake. This wasn't team work, this wasn't a classic Salavat attack. This was all Ufa team could do in the whole game. Bilyaletdinov has completely outgamed Zakharkin in this game. 2:1 - the final score again. The only good thing about this game is Niklas Svedberg's play. He was the one who let Salavat stay in the game till the end. In my humble opinion he is the man of the game.

Ak Bars goes to Ufa with a huge advantage and it's crucial for Salavat to win both of the games in order to start everything over. The coaches have to do something to bring back the physics and mentality to the team. I'm hoping to see Teemu Hartikainen and Sergei Soin back in the game in Ufa.

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Scandalous 'Last-second' Goal from Atte Ohtamaa. February 23, 2017

Yesterday's first game of the Green Derby Series between HCSalavat and Ak Bars ended with a massive scandal. The games between these teams are always hot and it's a brilliant news headliner. So, yesterday, the teams exchanged punches in the first period and got back to deep defense for the rest of the game. Still, Ak Bars was the one in the third period who didn't want overtime. 5 seconds left, they started an attack and Atte Ohtamaa scored a heartbreaking goal on the last second.

Igor Zakharkin immediately took a coach's challenge to check if there was goaltender interference, because Andrei Popov made contact with Svedberg's leg pad when he was making the first shot. The refs defined that there wasn't anything. Ak Bars started to celebrate the victory for the second time. Then something happened, the referees watched the goal again. They checked if it was scored before the final buzzer. Again, the goal was good. Tatneft-Arena bursted into hysteria for the third time. That was it for Salavat Yulaev that night. But here we have a video of the goal with a timer on the left corner. What do you see? Is that legal? Can Ak Bars score goals after the time is off?

https://twitter.com/hockey_se/status/834484045925011457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

KHL says yes, the goal was scored when it was 0,04 seconds left. But we don't know that, we see what we see on this video. Why can't KHL show what really happened there? We won't get answers for these questions. We just have to pull ourselves tomorrow and beat them in a fair game, although they don't play it.

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Ak Bars Takes the Lead in the Green Derby. February 22, 2017.

HCSalavat the second year in a row faces Ak Bars Kazan in the first round of the Gagarin Cup. This year the series starts in Kazan as Ak Bars came higher in the regular season. But they say it doesn't matter in play-offs. Ak Bars has come to the play-offs in full squad. Vladimir Tkachyov, Albert Yarullin and Damir Musin have finally got back from a rest after the national team games. On the contrary Salavat Yulaev, which had problems with the roster during all the season couldn't count on everybody. Although Linus Omark, Denis Bodrov, Andrei Gavrilov and Evgeny Bodrov were finally ready, Teemu Hartikainen, Sergei Soin, Aleksandr Nesterov and Igor Makarov stayed in Ufa. These four players are a big loss for the team. Two of them are centreforwards. So, as for the roster, Igor Grigorenko - Dmitry Makarov - Denis Parshin made the first line, backed up with Sami Lepisto and Aleksander Loginov. Enver Lisin - Tomas Mertl - Maksim Mayorov now were the second line. As in the previous game Kirill Kaprizov played with Evgeny Korotkov and Anton Lazarev. Linus Omark and Evgeny Bodrov were the drivers of the fourth line, they substituted young Stepan Khripunov and Mikhail Kotlyarevsky.

So, the rosters are set, the Tatneft-Arena is ready, the fans are pumped, let the Green Derby begin!

The game starts with a light advantage of Kazan, which is normal, because they play on their home ice, they are the favourites of the series. Still the teams tried to play it safe, paying more attention to the defense, which is also normal as this is the play-offs, every small mistake may cause huge problems. The first small mistake was made by Sami Lepisto. He got a dispensable 2-minute penalty for tripping, and Ak Bars takes the advantage by the effort of Jiri Sekac assisted by Vasily Tokranov and Justin Azevedo.

Usually who opens the score, he wins, so it's important to respond quickly. So does Salavat. Kirill Kaprizov who hasn't scored in a long time, makes it 1:1 in powerplay. Sami Lepisto and Linus Omark assisted him. The Classic came back! The teams traded jabs and got back to defense.

The second period was Salavat's chance to lead the game. They made 13 shots on goal against 5, had plenty of chances to score, but Emil Garipov took to heart saving the net. If, I repeat, if Salavat scored at least two of the chances, they would win the game undoubtedly. But it's 1:1 after the second period as well.

The third period was the most unentertaining. As for the shots on goal - 5:4 in favour of Ak Bars. The game was close, every goal could be the last. It seems Ak Bars needed the win more, because haven't given it up until the end of the game, literally. Atte Ohtamaa scored the game-winner and freezed the screen when it was showing 00:01 left.

Can you imagine that? Salavat Yulaev lost the game on the last second. This is a bitter loss for the team, because firstly of course the goal was scored on the last second, the team was really good, Svedberg showed how he can play against Ak Bars. The team has good movement, it's quick, the lines are pretty balanced. So we'll see how we can respond to this loss on February 24.

All the photos are taken from HCSalavat and HC Ak Bars VK Public pages:https://vk.com/hcsalavat and https://vk.com/hcakbars