Avtomobilist breeze past Ak Bars

In the second match of the 2025 Nikolai Puchkov Tournament, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg breezed past Ak Bars Kazan by an emphatic score of 6:1 in Saint Petersburg.

The Ural-based outfit raced out into a three-goal advantage in the opening two frames.

And they subsequently scored three more in the third, rendering a late Ak Bars effort a slender consolation.

Tomorrow, at 19:00 local time, SKA will indeed be the next team to face Avtomobilist.

Match protocol:

Ak Bars – Avtomobilist – 1:6 (0:2, 0:1, 1:3)

Goals:

0:1 Denezhkin (Gorbunov), 07.45

0:2 Kashtanov (Tarasov), 08.14

0:3 Byvaltsev (Gorbunov), 33.41

0:4 Da Costa, 43.17

0:5 Busygin (Osipov, Gorbunov), 47.43

0:6 Volk (Kizimov, Macek), 49.56 PPG

1:6 Zhulin (Katalevsky, Pustozyorov), 53.11 PPG

Goalkeepers: Berdin – Galkin

Shots: 55 – 64

Shots on target: 24 – 32

Faceoffs: 33 – 22

Hits: 17 – 18

Blocked shots: 18 – 18

Penalty minutes: 6 – 12

Referees: Vasilyev, Kochetov

Linesmen: Ivanov, Susyev

26.08.2025.