In the last half minute of the first period, the Herning club went from 0-1 to 2-1 in the space of 11 seconds, when Morten Poulsen, the experienced striker of the Danish national team, scored a brace. In both goals of the 35-year-old hockey player it was his peer Džeriņš who provided an assist, while Cibulskis earned a point in the second. Both world championship medal winners have accumulated a utility factor of +2.
At the beginning of the second period, the Danish hockey player Viktors Čubars of Latvian origin doubled the advantage of the Danish vice-champions, but subsequently the Katowice team, lined up with 13 foreigners and the naturalized goalkeeper John Murray, reacted. twice (3:3, 4:4). For the winners, for a goal and an assist to the Japanese Shigeki Hitosato and the Canadian Ben Sokai, authors of the decisive goal.
The Katowice team rehabilitated itself against the Herning club after the defeat (2:3 after extra time) in the previous round of the Continental Cup.
Two goals from 22-year-old Abaya Mangisbayeva forged the victory of Astana “Nomad” (5:2) over hosts Cardiff “Devils”. The champion of Kazakhstan also beat the Welsh team (5:4) in the previous stage in Grenoble.
The “Devils” hockey players made ten more shots (35-25), the Astana fortress was perfectly protected by Nikita Boyarkin.
21-year-old Stanislav Aleksandrovs, 20-year-old Nikolay Shulga and Mihails Rahmanov, who played 33 games this season for the KHL team Astana “Barys”, also scored accurately for the winners.
IIHF Continental Cup Finals
DateTimeGameResult12.01.18.00GKS Katowice (Poland) – Herning Blue Fox (Denmark)17:4 (1:2; 1:1; 2:1; 0:0; 1:0)22.00 Nomad Astana (Kazakhstan) – Cardiff Devils ( Great Britain)5:2 (2:1; 1:1; 2:0)13.01.17.00Herning Blue Fox – Nomad Astana21.00GKS Katowice – Cardiff Devils14.01.17.00Nomad Astana – GKS Katowice21.00Cardiff Devils – Herning Blue Fox
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