Dynamo Minsk lost to Shanghai Dragons in an away match in St. Petersburg

Minsk “Dynamo” completed the away series of the regular championship of the KHL in St. Petersburg defeat “Shanghai Dragons”. At the SKA Arena, the “teeth” were looking for the key to the gate of Pavel Khomchenko for a long time, and when they found it, only 12 seconds remained before the final siren, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency reports.

At the beginning of the month, the teams already met in Minsk, and then the Dragons took away the victory in overtime - 4: 3. Now the Chinese club is stronger again, and this time it has enough time.

From the first shifts, the teams worked quite tightly. Minsk tried to pass the middle zone faster, connect defenders and not give the opponent the initiative in positional attacks.

However, in the 9th minute the hosts opened the scoring.

Shanghai Dragons forward Dmitry Yashkin received a transfer from forward Vladislav Barulin and sent the puck to the goal of Belarusian goalkeeper Zak Fukale - 1: 0.

However, the game did not look one-sided. Perhaps influenced by the two-minute removal of defender Ty Smith in the opening match. As a result, the Minskers were faced early with the need to play in the minority.

After the break, the “teeth” began to actively conduct shifts in a foreign zone. It was at this point that the Dragons struck a second blow.

In the 24th minute, striker Yegor Solovyov distinguished himself. He was helped by scorer Brennan Menell and forward Riley Sutter. The score was 2-0.

For Dynamo, there was an urgent need to change the drawing of the game. Minsk needed to risk more and faster deliver the puck to the goalkeeper of the opponent P. Khomchenko.

Moreover, opportunities for the majority appeared. However, none of the teams managed to realize excess during the second period.

In the final twenty minutes, Minsk seriously pressed the opponent. In total, Dynamo scored 67 shots, 26 of them fell into the shooter. The opponent has 45 shots and 23 hits. But the long pressure didn't turn into goals. When the end was a little more than three minutes, the Belarusian goalkeeper went to the bench, and the Minskers switched to the game in six field.

And that risk worked. In the 59th minute of the match forward Daniil Sotishvili reduced the gap to a minimum. Transfers were given by defender Ty Smith, and forward Ilya Usov - 1: 2.

The siren is only 12 seconds away. Dynamo managed to load the opponent’s zone again, but failed to save the match. Dragons goalkeeper P. Khomchenko withstood the last assault.

Head coach of Dynamo Minsk Sergey Brylin summed up the meeting with the Shanghai Dragons:

- I don't think we started very well. Not very quickly, I would say, we lacked a bit of speed, we lost the fight. But in the middle of the first period we played better. Created a lot of moments in the second and third periods. Unfortunately, they could not score in the second period, there were two exits “2 in 1” with the score 0: 1, and immediately missed another goal. So we made it harder for ourselves. At the end of the third period, these two removals brought down our blood pressure. The initiative was in our hands, but as I said, we didn’t have enough time.

Dynamo Minsk will hold the next match at the home arena on September 28. At 19:10, the “teeth” will meet with Togliatti “Lada”, which previously lost with the score 2: 4.

Photo by the press service of HC Dynamo-Minsk