Vojvodina - HK Partizan 1:11

Easy as a pie.
What is more, we played without our key players (Filipović, Gabrić, Brkušanin, Ogrizović, Luković, Janković, plus Čuković was still suspended) because coach Nikola Bera decided to allow them some rest before the play-off. We had though two of our young talents, Lav Mitić and Lazar Novaković, they both scored goals, too.
The game was practically decided already in the 13rd minute, as we were leading to 0:3 even in this very early part of the game (goal scorers: Komazec, Zhukov, Raković). Jerković scored Vojvodina’s only goal, he did it around here (1:3), but Vlasov quickly scored our fourth goal. That was the result of the first period (1:4).
In the second period there was a 5-minute-part, when we scored 4 (!!!) goals. One by Zhukov, one by Milovanović and our two youngsters also both scored here. We actually won the match here. We headed to the last part with 1:8.
In the last period Ristić, Zhukov and Milovanović quickly scored 3 goals, and we could celebrate.
Partizan finished on 2nd place in the championship, qualifying to the play-off, where we’ll clash with Crvena Zvezda on 11th March.
Photos from the match:

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

HK Partizan - Szegedi Tisza Volán 8:0

Some said, this game would be a derby. In fact it was a training match.

News reported about the Szeged-based team that they arrived in Belgrade with half the team. No source mentions though why it happened so.

There isn’t much to say about it. It was smooth, we were leading in the first period to 3:0. In the second period started that wave of exclusions that added a lot to Szeged’s defeat. Partizan kept on scoring, the end result of the second part was 6:0.
Tihonov saved. He had 21 (!!!) saves during the game. Nothing could shake him, disturb him or weaken him. Tihonov is HK Partizan’s main bastion.
In the third period we scored two more. Game done, there are only two left until the play-off, one against HK Vitez the other is against Vojvodina.
The hero of the day was Pavle Ogrizović with two goals and an assist. The others - Dimitrije Filipović, Marko Milovanović, Anton Zhukov, Stepan Krivov, Alexander Vlasov and Nenad Raković - all scored 1-1.

(photos: Hokejaški klub Partizan (Fan page))

HK Partizan - NS Stars 5:1 (Serbian ice hockey league)

I don’t know which round this one is supposed to be - there have been so many postponed and cancelled matches in the past weeks that I lost the thread. At the end of the championship I will put up here the final league table, that will be 100 % sure.
Yesterday our sons clashed with NS Stars from Novi Sad. In the first period the guests were leading, some reports say their defense line was like concrete.
In the first period.
Only in the first period.
Because in the second one Marko Milovanović equalized (assisted enthusiastically by Nemanja Janković and youth national team member Lazar Leštarić, who just returned from a one-year field trip in the US). Five and a half minutes later we took the lead. Srđan Ristić scored, Marko Brkušanin assisted. Three minutes before the end of the period Dragan Komazec came, saw and scored, we entered the final with 3:1.
In the last period the Novi Sad team got a row of 2-minute penalties, and it paid off. Their defense broke to pieces, Nemanja Janković took advantage of it (4:1, assist: Marko Milovanović). Finally Marko Brkušanin got the puck, ran up and scored, just as it’s written in the Great Book of Ice Hockey. 5:1
Photos from the game:

A player of NS Stars is trying to deactivate Pavle Ogrizović - in vain

Nenad Raković

Marko Brkušanin escaping with the puck

Mass scene with Srđan Ristić in the middle - Kravljanac arriving on the right to support him, while Milovanović is watching from the distance

Marko "The Unstoppable" Milovanović

Ogrizović fighting for the puck

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

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

CHAMPIONS!!!!

HK Partizan is the champion of the 2014/15 season!!!!!
In the final we clashed with Beostar. We won the first match, sweating blood, but we made it to 6:8. Beostar was on the lead for almost the whole time, first to 3:1, then to 4:2 and even to 6:4. Then Marko Milovanović and Marko Brkušanin took the team on their back and switched it to 6:8 (with the great help of Dimitrije Filipović and Nenad Raković).

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

The second match started with 2:2 after the first period. After the second one the standing was 4:3, then in the 52nd minute of the match it was 5:3. The sixth goal came a few minutes before the end, and some time before the end buzz the 7th was scored as well. I’ll update the post with details later, now we celebrate the

CHAMPIONS

(photo: Facebook/Partizan is life) 

They absolutely deserve it

(photo: Twitter/PartizanMM11)

Update:

Celebration, cup, throwing jerseys to fans.

The ice hockey team in the championship's play-off

HK Partizan made it to the championship play-off after defeating

killing, smashing, damaging, tearing into pieces

Crvena Zvezda to 6:4.
In the first period it was already 2:1 to us, in the second it was 6:3 and they pressured out one little goal from themselves in the last one.
Yesterday (on Monday) we met Beostar, they defeated us to 6:7 in extra time. The hero of the game was Marko Milovanović with 3 goals, he is followed by Nenad Raković (2) and Boban Čuković (1). Finally today we played against HK Vitez, that team is placed as 5th of the league table. We defeated them to 10:5.
At this point the regular championship finished. Partizan ended on the top of the league table with 28 points. Now comes the play-off, where we clash with Crvena Zvezda in the semi-final.

(photo: Hokejaški klub Partizan (Fan page))

HK Crvena Zvezda - HK Partizan 3:10

At the other side of the city, at Pionir Ice Hall the ice hockey team stepped over the red team laughing (and probably entertaining each other with jokes) making a training match out of the eternal derby. The team’s best player was Dimitrije Filipović with 4 goals, joined by Ogrizović (2), Raković, Brkušanin, Čuković and Gabrić (1-1).

Goalkeeper Milan Luković explains something to Kovačević (19)

(photo: blic.rs)

Filipović gave a quick interview to blic.rs after the match with a wide grin.
- It’s always a great feeling to score against our eternal rival, especially 4 goals. - He added: - I expected more from their defense line, especially that they signed players from Slovakia and Czech Republic.

Update: a bunch of match photos.
Source: Facebook/Hokejaški klub Partizan (Fan page)

HK Partizan - HK Beostar 7:3

Today at 16:00 HK Partizan clashed with league table leader HK Beostar. The first part brought a draw (1:1), then in the second we made it to 3:1. The final period's partial result was 4:2, that made 7:3 as the final result.

As soon as there are further information, the post will be updated.

Update:
Srđan Ristić scored the first goal for HK Partizan after 5 minutes. Beostar could equalize in the last minutes of the first period in power play. In the second part Raković and Janković scored, then in the last period the team switched into Steam Roller mode. Brkušanin kickstarted it, Ogrizović joined him, Čuković also didn’t want to miss out a chance, then finally Brkušanin gave the coup de grace.
There are some match photos, too.
Source: Facebook/Hokejaški klub Partizan (Fan page)