HK Crvena Zvezda - HK Partizan 7:4 (Serbian ice hockey league, round 3)

This game was a nightmare.
Though the beginning was not bad at all. We rinked out to the ice and the wrestling session started. Sometimes we played some ice-hockey as well. The standing was 0:0 for quite a long time, almost til the end of the first period, but soon before the end we scored two goals within 1-2 minutes (goal scorers were Korshikov and Brkušanin). The period ended with 0:2, life was beautiful.
Well, at this point.
We went out for the second period, we continued wrestling, though Zvezda could press one goal into our net in the beginning (1:2). Red team fought hard, they seemingly wanted to equalize very much.
In consequence our captain Milovanović scored the world’s cheekiest goal. 1:3 - and after the goal Zvezda seemed to collapse. Their heaviy pushing was gone, while Partizan attacked more.
There we had the result of it. Raković scored our 4th goal. 1:4
Then something happened. Janković scored a giant goal, but referees invalidated it for some reason.
(Meanwhile at the other side Zvezda’s goal was also invalidated, while our goalkeeper was put into a humane vice by red players.) They still scored a goal at the end... The standing was 2:4 after the second period.
And then...
In the third period Zvezda quickly equalized (4:4).
They even took the lead (5:4).
We somehow fell into pieces. Don’t ever ask why or how. No idea. Yet we were pushing as hard as possible. We continuously attacked, but nothing ever worked out. Zvezda’s players took advantage of our mistakes with a nasty grin on their faces. They scored another goal (6:4). At a point there was such a big fight on the ice, that even one of the referees got a smash on his head... We kept on trying ahead, but we were running out of time. Finally, at the very end, when everyone thought it cannot be any worse, Zvezda threw a goal into our empty net. 7:4. End buzz.

Does anybody know where has our goalkeeper gone for the last minutes? No, this is not some bitter joke, I really didn’t see our goalkeeper anywhere. (Or I go to the ophthalmologist now.)

Photos from the game:

(photos: Facebook/Savez hokeja na ledu Srbije)

League table comes later.

HK Partizan - HK Vojvodina 12:1 (Serbian ice hockey league, round 2)

Meanwhile the basketball team was wrestling with the Croatians, our ice hockey team rushed through Vojvodina with another easy training match.
An interesting background for this match might be that the two teams met during the 2008/09 season last time (and even then the game was cancelled, because a fire broke in Vojvodina's locker room and their whole equipment was destroyed).
This time Marko Milovanović and Dimitrije Filipović took the team on their back; the first one achieved a hat-trick (as well as two assists), the latter one added five (!) assists to wash off the Novi Sad team. In the first period the standing was 3:0 after 12 minutes (goal scorers: Milovanović, Korshikov, Nemanja Janković), then within the next 4 minutes we scored 4 more goals. After the first part we were leading to 7:0. In the second period Raković flashed (8:0), Janković scored a second goal (9:0) and it was still only 26 minutes gone from the game. Then the pace slowed down - for us the standing was more than perfect, as for Vojvodina, nothing seemed to work out. Finally, after long struggle their player Milan Nikolić scored from power play, achieving the only goal of Vojvodina. Yet the period was still not over. 26 seconds before the end buzz Vlasov scored another goal. Partizan headed to the final part with 10:1.
In the last period Čuković scored two more goals. The first one he threw in the beginning, the second around the end.
Then it was time to celebrate.

(Nota bene: Our Russian player Stanislav Izvekov also joined the goal scorers’ list with one goal.)
Partizan won this game to 12:1, our next match will be the eternal derby tomorrow (if all goes well...) at 17:30 in Pionir Ice Hall.
Some photos from the game:

(photos: Facebook/Hokejaški klub Partizan (Fan page))

Current championship standings:
1. Partizan 6 points
2. Tisza Volán 6 points
3. CZ 3 points*
4. NS Stars 0 point*
5. Vojvodina 0 point
6. Red Team 0 point
7. HK Vitez 0 point**

* - played only one game so far
** - no games played yet

Red Team - HK Partizan 1:12 (Serbian Ice Hockey League, Round 1)

The ice hockey season has started at long last. In the first round newbie Red Team welcomed Partizan’s ice hockey team in Pionir Ice Hall.

Don’t mix them up with the eternal opponent that is mockingly named "red team" sometimes by Partizan fans. This Red Team was formed in 2008, their original intention is to make ice hockey popular among children. So far they had only youth teams, this is the first season they entered the senior championship.

After this last year’s champion ran through the home team just like a steam roller with a difference of 11 goals.
In the first period we were leading to 4:0, for the second period it grew to 10:0. Finally in the last part we scored two more, that was when Red Team scored their only goal, as a debt of honour.
The two heroes of the day are Pavle Ogrizović and Russian player Stanislav Izvekov, they both scored 3-3 goals. Nemanja Janković, Nenad Raković, Marko Brkušanin, Boban Čuković, Miodrag Pavlović and Russian player Artem Korshikov all scored 1-1 goal.

If there’s any photo or video or any further details about the game, I’ll update the post. (Usually there is, the ice hockey department consists of agile people who selflessly share photos and other material, maybe we just have to wait a bit.)

Update: photos from the match

(photos: Facebook/Hokejaški klub Partizan (Fan page))

Current championship standings:
1. CZ 3 points
2. Partizan 3 points
3. Tisza Volán 3 points
4. Vojvodina 0 point
5. Red Team 0 point**
6. NS Stars 0 point*
7. Vitez 0 point*

* - no games played as of yet
** - two games have been played