Primorsky Admiral Dominates Dynamo Moscow 4-1 in Thrilling KHL Showdown

Primorsky “Admiral” scored a convincing victory in the second home game of the FONBET KHL regular season of the 2024/2025 season. On Friday, September 20, on the ice of the Fetisov Arena, the “sailors” defeated the two-time winner of the Gagarin Cup, Dynamo Moscow, with a score of 4: 1. The winning goal was scored by the Dynamo player before it was Yegor Petukhov, and a hat-trick with an assist in the second game in a row was scored by 23-year-old forward Daniil Gutik, who led the KHL “assistants” race.

The next day began a game in the Kontinental Hockey League in Vladivostok, where the local “Admiral” hosted the “Dynamo” of the capital. For Muscovites, the beginning of the season is not easy – before reaching the Far East, Kudashov’s team scored two victories in six meetings. The sailors, then, played two games less, but they got five points, winning two meetings.

After the historic defeat of Kunlun with a score of 7:1 in the first home game of the season, the head coach of the hosts Leonid Tambiev almost changed the line. The same cast affected the fourth three forwards, in which former Dynamo player Ivan Muranov appeared in place of Alexander Shevchenko. On the way, he received the first penalty in the game, however, after Ivan, Eric O’Dell entered the penalty box. The “4 on 4” format turned out to be in favor of the guests – in the 7th minute they opened the scoring: Ozhiganov threw the puck into the field, Comtois picked up the rebound from the boards and shot through Demchenko from a great angle – 0:1.

Soon Muranov returned to the ice and, thanks to their numerical advantage, the hosts restored equality on the scoreboard of Fetisov Arena: Daniil Gutik threw the puck into the center to Georgy Solyannikov, who made a powerful effort not to interfered and made the right decision – goalkeeper Miska did not respond and the “projectile” went into the net, – 1:1.

“Admiral” had more possession of the puck and at the end of the period he regained the majority. By the way, Ilyenko’s two-minute penalty went to the beginning of the second period – the hosts did not convert it, but took a goal and scored an important goal on another attempt. While Nikita Gusev was resting in the penalty box for holding up an opponent with his stick, his former Dynamo team-mate put the hosts ahead: Georgy Solyannikov fired from the blue line, and Egor Petukhov put his stick in the spot and put the puck into the net – 2:1.

In the second period there was a lot of scrimmage and sending off, “Admiral” had a lot of good chances and had to improve their advantage, including in the form of “5 on 3”, but the hockey players were let down by putting them to death. . But at the beginning of the third period, when Dynamo caught two minutes again, the Vladivostok team did not make any mistakes. Gutik threw from the boards – Shen looked for the rebound on the heel and pushed the puck into the goal – 3:1.

To be honest, the inhabitants of Primorye caught the spirit and did not intend to stop. The fourth goal is proof of this. Stepan Starkov picked up the puck in his zone, made a high-speed pass in the style of Pavel Bure and executed a powerful throw from the left front circle – the “disc” went out over the goalkeeper’s trap and went it into the net – 4:1.

Despite Dynamo’s efforts to improve the situation, the score remained unchanged. The result was 4:1, Admiral marked his third victory of the new season and moved up to fifth place in the KHL Eastern Conference with seven points.

“Thank you very much to the fans. The hall is full, it’s great to play in such an atmosphere. As for the game, it was a difficult game, a lot of hard fighting and wiping out. A few fouls in the second period. Well done to the boys for listening in the locker room. We did a lot of things right in the third period and got back into the game. We scored two very important goals that decided the outcome of the game,” he said at a press conference. head coach of HC “Admiral” Leonid Tambiev.

The Far Easterners will play their next match on September 22. The three-time winner of the Gagarin Cup, CSKA of the capital, will visit the Admiral. The meeting will start at 17:00. Let’s remember that the two teams have already met each other in the new season. The game ended on September 8 in Moscow with a shocking victory for the army team with a score of 6:2.