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The KHL final four began yesterday with a familiar story for Lokomotiv. My boy Vasicek ties the game with 2:45 left to send it into OT. Some 8 minutes later, one of his teammates decided to prevent a goal by knocking the net loose, and Alexi Tsvetkov scored on the ensuing penalty shot to give MVD a 3-2 win in game one. Game two today also went into OT, with Alexander Gallimov tying the match at 1-1 late in the 3rd. But this time, it was Konstantin Rudenko for Lokomotiv with 28 seconds left in the 1st OT for a 2-1 win and a tied series.
In the meanwhile, the match in the east was a back and forth affair, with Ak Bars jumping out 2-0 early only to have Salavat Yulaev come right back to tie; then Dmitri Kazionov got the second of his 2 goals to put Ak Bars back on top. Again the top team in the KHL tied it up at 3-3, but Alexander Ridulov scored inside the last 9 minutes to give Ak Bars the 4-3 lead and eventually the win. But with 18 seconds to go, Ak Bars' Patrick Thoreson gave a check "to the head and neck" and received a game misconduct. That will mean he will miss the next game at least, and Kazan can ill-afford to lose the Swede, who put up 2 assists in the game.
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