In the regular season match of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod hosted Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and lost with a score of 3-5.
The guest team took a 2-goal lead in the 13th minute. Andrey Sergeev and Nikita Cherepanov distinguished themselves. In the second period, the “railroad players” hit the opponent’s goal twice more. This time Denis Alekseev and Yaroslav Likhachev came to the fore.
In the third period, the teams scored 4 goals among themselves. First, Stepan Nikulin made the score 5:0 in favor of Lokomotiv. Then, within four minutes, the Nizhny Novgorod team sent the puck into Daniil Isaev’s goal three times. Maxim Letunov, Vladislav Firstov and Nikita Shavin scored.
Lokomotiv is in third place in the Western Conference, four and one point behind Spartak and Dinamo respectively. Nizhny Novgorod residents are in fifth place.
The current winner of the Gagarin Cup is CSKA. On the 100th anniversary of its establishment on April 29, our Ordu team won the seventh match of the final series against Kazan Ak Bars and won the cup.
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