Kherson club defeated Kyiv club with the advantage of just one goal.
The program of the 31st round of the UHL championship – Pari-Match opened with a match at Favorit Arena, where the first and last teams of the tournament played. The capital's hockey players were considered to be the undisputed outsider of the pair, but Ice Wolves once again demonstrated a decent game in the confrontation with the leader.
Among the owners of the ice Kyril Bondarenko scored already after the first minute. In the first period, Kherson’s team increased their advantage due to an accurate throw by Nikita Makaritsky. After that, Pidgursky's wards calmed down somewhat, and the guests created a couple of moments for a goal. But the third goal was scored by the players of Dnepr – the double for the leaders was made by Makaritsky.
The capital club could “break” Oleg Petrov through only at the end of the second 20-minute. Sergey Mikulchik reduced the backlog to two goals. The final period the "wolves" spent in the defense of their own gates, and Dnepr unsuccessfully tried to increase the gap in the account. Nevertheless, Alexey Ovchinnikov reduced the gap to one accurate throw in 20 seconds before the final alarm.
“Dnepr” - “Ice Wolves” - 3: 2 (2: 0; 1: 1; 0: 1)
Goals: 1: 0 Bondarenko (Afanasyev), 01:01. 2: 0 Makaritsky (Matvienko, Budko), 15:31. 3: 0 Makaritsky, 29:31. 3: 1 Mikulchik (Fedosov), 39:59. 3: 2 Ovchinnikov, 59:39.
Dnepr: Petrov; Dekalo - Belousov, Afanasyev - Budko, Shuleshov - Pugachev, Kruglyakov - Matusevich; Makaritsky - Kolyada (K) - Zolotukhin, Bondarenko - Kovalenko - Romashchenko, Braga - Timchenko - Tselogorodtsev, Sirchenko, Matvienko.
Ice Wolves: Glotov; Chikida - Privalikhin, Frolenko - Fedosov, Savchenko - Pankov; Burnatov - Dvornik (A) - Boronilo, Ovchinnikov (A) - Mikulchik (K) - Davidenko, Duyun - Borisov - Bolotin.
