the hockey players were the first to throw tractors in this series; this was done by charles robinsonuickly, and alexander polunin made an effective run, and 2 seconds before the end of the first period martin gernat scored on the power play. in the second period, the score was 2:1. an episode that directly influenced the course of the match. maxim shlunov collided with tractor goalie zach fucaly. the canadian was taken off the court with an injury, and the reserve goalkeeper chelyabinsk mylnikov came on and... missed three times, including goals that are called unnecessary, for example, from alexander elesin to the near corner. i'll say this, it's a little bit of our mistake, but no one thought that zach will receive such a ridiculous injury, well, here, at the discretion of the league, we will consider this moment that happened, it seems to me, there was a game moment, why talk about it here now, it happened there or happened, well, for me it’s a game moment, there was no intent. lokomotiv eventually won the first game 5:2 and took the series lead 1:0. the second game in this pair w